Looks at Gene Transfer Vectors for Clinical Application. This title covers topics such as General principles of retrovirus vector design, Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD), Gene therapy for blindness, and Retrovirus genetic strategy and vector design.
Introduces massage techniques for orthopedic conditions, promoting the alignment of soft tissue relating to pain and dysfunction. This manual for clinical massage therapy contains brief descriptions of rationale behind orthopedic massage, mechanisms of injury to and repair of soft tissue, and anatomy of each body area.
Offers an exploration of the major types of electrophysical agents used in clinical practice, particularly human and also animal. This text focuses on evidence: clinical and biophysical evidence that affects how and which electrotherapies may be of use clinically and when.
Suitable for the various types of practitioners including psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, marriage and family counselors, alcohol counselors, rehabilitation, recreational, occupational, physical, and speech therapists, this book contains different types of forms to be used between sessions.
Practical Radiotherapy introduces the reader to the physics and equipment that is central to radiotherapy practice. This Second Edition has been extensively revised and is fully up to date with key developments in equipment and practice, namely: stereotacic radiosurgery, CT SIM and SIM CT, portal imaging, MLC and HDR brachytherapy.
This book should help readers select appropriate methods for dealing with autistic individuals. In addition, parents of autistic individuals and autistic individual themselves should find the information will enable them to initiate relevant strategies and environmental changes to facilitate more effective learning.
Focuses on community rehabilitation. It has a multi-disciplinary approach and includes an up-to-date review of medical developments in understanding and treating stroke. Chapters cover: medical management of stroke, acute care, long-term support, multi-disciplinary approach for rehabilitation, aphasia and community support.
Addresses various topics that explore the links between physical activity (or inactivity) and obesity. This title examines obesity in different populations, including children and adults of various backgrounds, ethnicities and social classes. It presents an overview of the methods used in assessing the levels of sedentary behavior.
Provides an examination of how manual therapy (MT) techniques work, and how to match the most suitable techniques to different conditions. Drawing on evidence-based research, this title explores the physiological, neurological and psychophysiological responses of the human body to MT techniques.
Focuses on Public Health issues regarding the education of the population and medical community, and the acceptance of people living with HIV and AIDS. This book also deals with the Homeopathic approach to case taking and prescribing in HIV. It includes recommendations that are based on the observations of many physicians all over India.
Shows professionals how to design aquatic rehabilitation and exercise programmes for various groups and individuals of various ages. This title guides readers in choosing the right exercises for their clients, including the appropriate exercise frequency, intensity and duration based on each client's abilities and limitations.
Provides an illustrated, comprehensive review of obesity - a health problem that is rapidly becoming widespread worldwide. Unique guide tackling a complex condition, covering aetiology through to assessment, management and prevention of obesity. Suitable for practicing physicians and nurses, in a variety of specialties.
Presents and discusses the data on the topics of overweightness and walking. This title also covers angular momentum as a metric of human walking, the influence of visual, somatosensory and vestibular information and their interaction in relation to postural control and adaptive walking.
Aims to familiarise students with individual muscles and muscle systems. This title demonstrates basic clinical massage therapy techniques. It features illustrations of draping and includes palpation for each muscle. An accompanying Real Bodywork DVD includes video demonstrations of massage techniques from the book.
The emergence of resistance to anti-tuberculosis drugs, particularly of MDR-TB and the XDR-TB, has become a major public health problem. The treatment regiment has several disadvantages. This book outlines the advances in the development of the multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) drugs.
Offering a review of anatomy and physiology as they relate to myofascial massage, this book helps practitioners and students sort out differences and similarities between popular myofascial styles. It focuses on techniques and recommendations for clients, including the neuromuscular approach, hatha yoga and exercise to support myofascial massage.
Presents the account of the use of mechanical ventilation in critically ill patients. This title features coverage that addresses important scientific, clinical, and technical aspects of the field as well as chapters that encompass the full scope of mechanical ventilation, including the physical basis of mechanical ventilation.
Includes chapters on medical nutrition therapy for psychiatric disease and developmental disorders which describes the advances made in these areas. This book contains appendices, tables, illustrations, figures, and clinical insight boxes give practical hands-on procedures and clinical tools.
This book provides health professionals with sound clinical advice on management of the obese patient admitted into hospital. It addresses all aspects of the patient's care, as well as serving as a resource to facilitate the management of services, use of clinical information, and negotiation of ethical issues that occur in intensive care.
Shows you how to use natural therapies to heal your body and promote good health. This guide features information on the safest natural therapies, medicines, herbs, and supplements. It also covers the research on infertility, menopause, heart disease, osteoporosis, and more.
Contemporary culture includes a high awareness of personal and global health hazards. This title gives prescribing and non-prescribing clinicians, as well as the counselors and social workers who encounter the problem, the tools to reduce both the fears and the medical costs that so often accompany them.
Presents a theoretical background for transport of non-symmetric beams in rotating ion-optical systems. This book applies theoretical considerations to the transport of ion-therapy beams in rotating ion gantries. It describes, analyses and reviews different techniques for matching the rotating gantries to the fixed beam transfer-lines.
Describes how to apply common electrotherapy modalities to a patient in the clinical setting. This title guides the student through the process from start to finish, covering various safety issues, contraindications and precautions. It also features step by step instructions accompanied by photographs.
Helps you learn to conceptualize your clients needs in ways that lead to effective treatment plans while finding the tools for troubleshooting when interventions fail to produce expected benefits. This guide addresses the essential question facing therapists with a new client: How do I create a treatment plan that is the best match for my client?
Featuring more than 250 illustrations and photographs, this title offers detailed instructions on the appropriate massage strokes, stretching techniques, and therapeutic routines to use in seated massage for both relaxation and specific therapeutic applications. Each chapter includes hands-on experiential exercises, and case studies.
The natural energy forces within the body maintain the normal health and wellbeing. These energies or forces may be channelled to assist in healing and restoration to health. This book provides an explanation for the energetic exchanges that take place in various therapies. It is useful for those interested in the therapeutic aspects of energy.
Therapist Abraham shows how art can provide people with Alzheimer's a way to express their thoughts and emotions, when they can no longer communicate well verbally and words have lost their meaning. Abraham believes it is our moral obligation to provide elders with this tool, lest they be prematurely deemed beyond interaction.
Drawing upon personal narratives, rhetoric, material discourse, discourse analysis, cultural representation, ethnography and contextual studies, this book seeks to emphasize the multi-dimensional and multi-functional nature of disability language to understand disability and locate it within the mainstream social and cultural theory.
Low-carb! low-fat! high-protein! high-fiber! Americans are food-savvy, label-conscious, calorie-aware - and still gain weight in spite of all their good intentions. This book unites systems (non-linear) thinking and information technology to provide insights and practical strategies for managing our bodies, as well as our health.
The book explores a variety of linguistic skills and how to apply them in online therapy. The skills employed are taken from the main scope of neurolinguistic theory and therefore focus on the words themselves and how the client presents them to the therapist.
Stem cells are the building blocks of the body. They can develop into any of the cells that make up our bodies. This title provides an overview and an analysis of the developments on the role and functions of the neuronal cells of the adult brain in the physio- and pathology of the nervous system.
Stem cells are the building blocks of the body. They can develop into any of the cells that make up our bodies. Stem cells hold a great deal of hope for the treatment of a broad range of diseases and injuries. This book aims at providing an overview and an analysis of the developments in stem cell research and therapy.
This manual is intended as a resource for students and practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine, such as Acupuncture, Shiatsu and Qi Gong. The book details the energetic properties of around 300 common foods, and explains the principles of Chinese medicine and how to apply them for daily use.
These titles provide a grounding in the underlying principles of EmoTrance for self-help and use with others and introduces the uses of the system, namely self healing, healing others, goal setting, and state management, especially of new and previously inexperienced enlightenment states.
Explores the thoughts of poets, therapists and counsellors in relation to the human condition with a component on how poetry can be used in therapeutic work. Concentrating on the theories of Freud, Jung, Rogers, Berne, Perls and Ellis, this book examines topics such as human motivation, experience and neurosis.
People with severe autism experience the sensory information they receive from the world completely differently to those not on the spectrum. This work shows how we can engage with people who are non-verbal or semi-verbal and sometimes even those who have speech but lose the power to process it when they are in crisis.
Gives an account of individual healing sessions with children with complex special needs and moderate to severe learning difficulties. Drawing on the author's experience, this title shows how spiritual healing can help children with special needs to achieve peace and relaxation, including case examples of healing sessions.
Offers natural product information for health care professionals. This title includes more than 350 monographs, based on scientific research. It provides information about natural products, including their botany, history, chemistry, pharmacology, medicinal uses, toxicology, and patient information.
Over the years, a silent revolution in functional neurosurgery has been unfolding. This revolution, still in the making, is the development of cortical electrical neuromodulation. Defining indications and limits of cortical stimulation, invasive and non-invasive, this textbook provides an account of the field.
Covers the multi-faceted factors contributing to the childhood obesity epidemic. This book presents the strategies for childhood obesity prevention and treatment such as physical activity and exercise, personalized nutrition plans and school and community involvement.
For parents of children with Asperger Syndrome ordinary parenting just doesn't always do it - AS kids need a different approach. Brenda is mother to 11-year-old Kenneth, and since his diagnosis at the age of eight, she has gathered together parenting ideas and tips which she shares in this work.
An illustrated evidence-based handbook which presents a range of sports massage techniques to cover any sports-related situation. It explains and applies techniques from a variety of disciplines of manual therapy, ranging from commonly used sports massage strokes to advanced concepts for real-life effective sports massage treatments.
A guide for students providing bullet points of basic information on therapeutics. It focuses on what pharmacy students really need to know in order to pass exams, providing concise, bulleted information, key points, tips and important self-assessment section which includes MCQs, case studies, sample essay questions and worked examples.
This text is divided into two parts. Part 1 focuses on neuroanatomy and the pharmacology of sleep; chronobiology; and investigation of sleep disorders. Part 2 deals with snoring and sleep apnnoeas; medical and surgical treatment of snoring and sleep apnnoeas; abnormal movements during sleep, insomnia, and more.
Demystifies the important issues of establishing professional relationships in the manual therapies. This book includes real-life examples and practical solutions to dilemmas and sensitive situations that all body workers face in their everyday practice.
A comprehensive, bullet-format review of content tested on the NPTE and review Q&A. It includes what you need to know to pass the exam the first time. It also carries a CD-ROM with 500 exam-format questions and answers that simulates the exam experience, assesses your strengths and weaknesses, with an intention of drilling you for exam day.
The proceedings of a workshop convened to discuss the treatment of paediatric RTI with oral cephalosporins. The contributors explore aspects of comparative pharmacokinetics, microbiology and problems encountered in reporting and conducting the appropriate efficacy studies.
Gives a comprehensive introduction to massage techniques and offers guidelines on the assessment of each body region prior to massage (including the symptoms and signs relating to pathology). This book describes applied massage techniques for common conditions and their utilization as an adjunct to both conventional and complementary treatments.
Teaches how stress and emotions affect every cell and tissue of our bodies, and how mind body practices can reverse the effects of stress and decrease the associated physical symptoms. This book describes meditation, what it is, how it helps and how to do it.
Fibromyalgia is a frustrating fact of life for millions, yet its bewildering symptoms are often misunderstood, misdiagnosed, or simply dismissed. This work helps you learn: what fibromyalgia is and what causes it, how to create a treatment plan, set realistic goals and track your progress, and how to reduce your reliance on medical drugs.
Research shows that biochemical imbalances caused by nutritional deficiencies are a contributory factor in chronic illnesses such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, auto-immune conditions and cancer. This handbook explains how to identify and treat such biochemical imbalances in order to better understand and manage a patient's ill-health.
While significant progress has been made in the past decade, the current understanding of protein aggregation and its consequences is still immature. Aggregation of Therapeutic Proteins provides an up-to-date resource on protein aggregation and its consequences, and available methods to control or slow down the aggregation process.
Providing insight into the lives and minds of those who self-injure, this book includes statistical data, diagrams, resources, case studies, testimonies, and self-help activities. It offers solace, hope, and direction to those who self-injure and guidance to family and friends supporting a loved one who self-injures.
Integrates functional anatomy, physiology, and pathology with massage therapy techniques and offers 3D anatomical information. This title also covers communication, documentation, safety, self-care, and business practices. It features coverage of hydrotherapy, Eastern techniques, sanitation and hygiene, and HIPAA.
If you have no language, how can you make yourself understood, let alone make friends? This title explores the nature of close relationships, and shows how these are based not so much on words as on the ability to listen, pay attention, and respond in terms that are familiar to the other person.
More and more mental health professionals are turning to unconventional therapeutic approaches to help their patients. This practical guide explains how to integrate traditional modes of therapy with an array of alternative approaches - from vitamin and mineral supplements to mindfulness training, light therapy and acupuncture.
Helps you to have access to eight medical calculators that include: GFR - Cockcroft-Gault Method (Adult); Urea Reduction percentage (Hemodialysis); Transtubular Potassium Gradient; Osmolal Gap; Anion Gap; Serum Osmolality; Reticulocyte Index; and, Body Mass Index (BMI).
The Sleep Technician's Flash Cards are designed to test and reinforce students' knowledge base to prepare for the RPSGT board exam. With 250 cards, this convenient study aid allows students to quiz themselves throughout their busy day and will help maximize their comprehension of polysomnography.
This work takes its readers behind the erratic behaviour of this puzzling disorder, examining its underlying causes and revealing the unimaginable pain and fear beneath its surface. It aims to educate and assist the layperson in recognizing and understanding BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder).
Applying mechanical ventilation principles to patient care, this title helps you provide safe, appropriate, and compassionate care for patients requiring ventilatory support. It features chapters on ventilator-associated pneumonia and on neonatal and pediatric mechanical ventilation.