Self Treatment for Back, Neck and Limbs: The Mulligan Concept Approach, Revised 4th Edition (8542-4) Softcover

This newly revised fourth edition of Brian Mulligan’s self-help guide helps people relieve back pain, neck pain and pain in the extremities through exercise and specialized techniques.Self Treatment for Back, Neck and Limbs is a self-help guide designed to help the patient gain exercise independence by learning concepts and techniques including posture, self-snag exercises and the pain-release phenomenon. The newly revised fourth edition includes all new photographs, as well as updated information from the latest research on safe lifting and posture, acute injury management and red flags, self-care advice in tendon injury management, and new self-treatment mobilisations with movement for the hip and lumbar spine.Chapters include:IntroductionAdvicePostureSittingSitting at a computerExercises for the neck and shoulders at your deskSleepingLiftingBack painFirst aidTapingPain free techniques: SNAGS and MWMsYour treatment rulesThe spineThe cervical spineHeadachesNeck pain and stiffness self-treatmentThe lumbar spineLow back pain stiffness and low back pain with movementA loss of straight leg raiseBack exercisesLateral shift correction techniqueThe thoracic spineSelf-tractionThe sacroiliac jointThe limbsFingersThumbWristElbowThe shoulderHeel painThe ankleThe kneeThe hipHamstringsMuscle strainsChronic Achilles tendonopathyPain provoking techniques: Pain Release Phenomenon (PRPs)Your treatment rulesPatellofemoral painHip painShoulder painWrist painDe Quervain’s syndromeThumb painA final word from Brian Mulligan, the originator of the Mulligan ConceptFourth edition. Softcover; 172 pages. Photo-illustrated. Published On: 2024-08-12 Read more