Muscles and Meridians
eBook - ePub

Muscles and Meridians

The Manipulation of Shape

  1. 220 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Muscles and Meridians

The Manipulation of Shape

About this book

Muscles and Meridians is a unique book that breaks new conceptual ground in the realm of human movement. Exploring the connection between evolutionary biology and Chinese meridians, the volume offers a novel and effective system of diagnosis and treatment of common musculoskeletal disorders.- Describes a new model of human movement - the Contractile Field model- Offers a rare and serious attempt to look at whole person movement patterns – akin to 'Anatomy Trains' but with a stronger link to vertebrate evolution and development- Suggests that much of our endemic back and leg pain is due to a loss of ease in postures that are 'archetypal' to mankind- Offers a profound new understanding of the world's oldest medical map, the Chinese meridian map

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Image
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Front Matter
  4. Copyright
  5. Foreword
  6. Preface
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. A wriggle in deep time
  9. 2. Embryological morphogenesis
  10. 3. Modelling movement
  11. 4. Lateral contractile field (L-CF)
  12. 5. Dorso/ventro contractile field (D/V-CF)
  13. 6. Helical contractile field (H-CF)
  14. 7. Limb contractile fields (Limb-CFs)
  15. 8. Radial contractile field (R-CF)
  16. 9. Chiralic contractile field (C-CF)
  17. 10. Fluid field (F-F)
  18. 11. Archetypal postures
  19. 12. Decoding the Chinese meridial map
  20. 13. Manipulating shape
  21. Abbreviations and glossary
  22. Index