
- 220 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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
- Cover Image
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Copyright
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. A wriggle in deep time
- 2. Embryological morphogenesis
- 3. Modelling movement
- 4. Lateral contractile field (L-CF)
- 5. Dorso/ventro contractile field (D/V-CF)
- 6. Helical contractile field (H-CF)
- 7. Limb contractile fields (Limb-CFs)
- 8. Radial contractile field (R-CF)
- 9. Chiralic contractile field (C-CF)
- 10. Fluid field (F-F)
- 11. Archetypal postures
- 12. Decoding the Chinese meridial map
- 13. Manipulating shape
- Abbreviations and glossary
- Index