Leon Chaitow

These images are from the paper by Shah & Gilliams which is in the 'Most Cited" list, below. They show a schematic diagram of a trigger point and the dialysis instrument which is used to analyse the environmental mileu of these entities. I have been browsing through a...

This posting draws on notes I am making for a section of a new book on chronic pelvic pain that I am coediting, and part writing. It relates to the effects of particular sports on the evolution of pelvic pain…. Particularly when excessive training takes place in...

It's high summer and I'm beavering away in Corfu to complete submission of a new book - Physical Medicine Approaches to Chronic Pelvic Pain (due for publication by Elsevier in 2011 (coedited with Ruth Lovegrove PT PhD, and with approximately 20 of the (very, very)...

Around 30 years ago a slim book I had written, entitled Neuromuscular Technique, was published by Thorsons, a small publishing house in Wellingborough, Northants. A few years later that book morphed into a larger title Soft Tissue Manipulation (STM) which somehow...

Every 3 months I receive an update on the most popular downloads (from Elsevier's ScienceDirect) of JBMT articles for a three month period. Around 12,000 articles a month are downloaded, and the topics selected tell me a great deal about what's of interest to readers,...

NOTE: For reasons of copyright I cannot publish the figures/images that illustrate this posting - so instead am offering a glimpse of our Corfu garden..... and - to satify his many fans - a recent snap of Dumbo, our highly intelligent, loveable, stubborn, miniature...

For details of this symposium - during which David Simons will be honoured please go to this website http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/musclepain/Click Here for more on David Simons

David Simons MD, died yesterday - 5th April 2010 Friend, mentor, teacher, scholar, and an inspirational guide in the search for understanding somatic pain - David will be sorely missed Early in his career, David Simons was an aerospace physician, involved in the study...

The Biomechanics of Spinal Manipulation Some of the book titles mentioned below, plus a Madrid classroom snap of some of the physiotherapist participants, practicing MET for spinal restrictions. It's Easter, and I'm safely back in Corfu, where these holidays are taken...

This brief post is to ask all who visit it to have in their prayers and thoughts the final days of a great man, David SimonsA message from his family and carers has been widely disseminated, asking for our thoughts to be with him and his family as he nears the end of...