Leon Chaitow
What YOU need to know about vitamin D?
You may already have a good awareness of the health implications of Vitamin D. If so, hopefully there will be a few additional snippets in this posting to add to your knowledge base. If, however, Vitamin D has slipped off your radar, this posting will offer you a...
October-December 2009: The 25 most popular downloads from The Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies (AND the 10 most cited papers)
I'm currently away from home-base of Corfu, traveling and teaching.This limits the time I have to focus on blog-posting .....so I thought to make this particular post simple....and hopefully interesting?1/ The top 25 downloads from ScienceDirect - of JBMT articles,...
Breathing and Body/Mind Balance
The symptoms of over-breathing are summarised on the outline of the human body on the left (remembering that all these symptoms can result from other causes, but they can ALL be caused or made worse by how we breathe) The sequence of events that lead to or take part...
latest research recommends walking and running barefoot –
Picture above is Vibram FiveFingers shoe The barefoot runner on the left is NOT ME During my early teenage years - in the 1940's - I lived in Johannesburg. One of my recollections is of migrant African goldmine workers, returning to their homes many miles away for...
Once in a blue moon…..in Corfu
This posting has nothing whatever to do with manual therapy, health issues or anything approximating these.It is purely and simply an excuse to publish a couple of photographs, taken an hour or two ago, of a blue moon, as seen from the lounge window of our Corfu Town...
Palpation Skills & Fibromyalgia Syndrome – third editions now available
The 3rd edition of Palpation and Skills:Assessment Through Touch, (ISBN 9780443069352) has just (December 2009) been published by Elsevier (as has the 3rd edition of Fibromyalgia Syndrome ISBN 9780443069369).Both books come with DVD-ROMs that contain dozens of...
Massage Therapy and Translational Research
Originally published in Massage Today December, 2009, Vol. 9, Issue 12 In recent years, there has been an explosion of interest in translational research.1,3-5 This research looks at ways in which the evidence that emerges from basic research in laboratory settings...
An amazing story: The ballet dancer with cerebral palsy – dancing in NY
Left: Tamar Rogoff doing “body work” with GreggRight: Gregg Mozgala rehearsingThis heart-warming story contains a number of fascinating elements. Firstly the facts:In early 2008, a young actor with cerebral palsy, Gregg Mozgala, was appearing as Romeo in a production...
A tale of Two Conferences and an Exhibition: Amsterdam and Athens
Clockwise from the left (double click on picture to enlarge):1/The panel I chaired at the Amsterdam fascia conference2/ A workshop demonstration of fascial manipulation in Amsterdam3/Sasha with her Professors and fellow graduates from Exeter University, on terrace...
Red, White and Black Reaction
Originally published in Massage Today October, 2009, Vol. 9, Issue 10 In the current edition of my book, Palpation & Assessment Skills, there are 12 "special topic" sections, where subjects that don't quite fit into the regular chapters, have been placed. The...
End of summer – reflecting on what’s new and exciting?
Hermes - by Sasha Chaitow (2009) Kai Galen Mitchell - grandson of the developer of MET - demonstrating longus colli technique September already! ....the summer slipped away so quickly and I am using this posting to reflect on the high points - as well as some specific...
fascia, water and bodywork (plus: Micro-tornadoes, hydrogenated diamonds & nanocrystals)
Gerald Pollack in his lab (see below for more on this amazing researcher) This posting leans heavily on a number of articles written over the past few years, for the online magazines NaturopathyDigest, and its' sister publication MassageToday. Articles include: The...