Leon Chaitow
Update on Muscle Energy Technique
MET of Quadratus lumborum This post represents a summary of the current evolution of Muscle Energy Techniques (MET) - as I understand it, use it (clinically),and write about and teach it. I accept that there are other models of MET - and that the approaches I describe...
Birth of the NEW Fascia Research Society
The Vancouver Fascia Research Congress (March 28-30 2012) was an exciting, intense, challenging experience - a report of which will be posted in the next few days.The photos show Geoff Bove DC PhD, Mary Barbe PhD presenting at the congress, as well as myself with Gil...
Breathing Pattern Disorders and Lumbopelvic pain and Dysfunction: An Update
This post contains a summary of a presentation I will be making at the XXII Physiotherapy Conference, Madrid in March 2012, entitled: Breathing Pattern Disorders and Lumbopelvic Pain and dysfunction : An overview. It represents an update on my paper written in...
"Pranotherapy" predecessor of Neuromuscular Technique
The text below is the Foreword that I prepared for Masterworks International for a book that they recently published entitled Pranotherapy: The Origins of Polarity Therapy and European Neuromuscular Technique, based on the original work : The Human Machine and its...
The Role of Fascia in Manipulative Treatment of Soft Tissues
F Fascia provides structural and functional continuity between the body’s hard and soft tissues, as an ubiquitous elastic–plastic, component that invests, supports and separates, connects and divides, wraps and gives cohesion, to the rest of the body – playing an...
Adaptation Perspectives and Low Back Pain
Originally published in Massage Today November, 2011, Vol. 11, Issue 11 A prospective patient arrives with a problem for you to manage – say a backache (a not uncommon scenario!). Where do you begin? I would suggest you begin by viewing the problem through a broad...
Pulsed Muscle Energy Technique (MET): New insights from Fred Mitchell Jr.
Following the previous blog posting on the use of rhythmic isometric contractions in application of MET, there was a discussion on the topic on facebook.In that thread of discussion the following postings occurred (Note: some of this selection of posts from that...
Pulsed Muscle Energy Technique: Ruddy Revisited
It's been several months since the last blog-post, due to immersion in writing and editing tasks.I'm currently working on notes for an eventual updating/revision of Muscle Energy Techniques (3rd edition)....abbreviated to MET.A 4th edition will eventually emerge, in...
Isometric Contractions in Pain Management
These notes summarise some of the many ways in which isometric contractions can be used in clinical practice Isometric contractions and trigger points.• Trigger points appear to be self-perpetuating, unless treated correctly.• Whatever method is used to deactivate a...
Chronic Pelvic Pain (CPP)
In the next few months nearly 3 years of focused effort will come to fruition, with the publication of this book (by Elsevier/ChurchillLivingstone) - coedited by Dr Ruth Lovegrove and myself, with input from around 20 experts including:Rodney Anderson, Andrew...
Understanding Central Sensitization and Pain
Originally published in Massage Today May, 2011, Vol. 11, Issue 05 Central sensitization is defined as 'an augmentation of responsiveness of central pain-signalling neurons to input from low-threshold mechanoreceptors' (Nijs 2009). The evolution of chronic pain has...
Osteopathy Today Interview (2011)
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