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NEXT Workshop is on May 21 and 22, 2011 at Cebu, Philippines

NEXT Workshop is on May 21 and 22, 2011 at Cebu, Philippines
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What's being said about Manual Medicine?

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Not everything is HVLA

HVLA techniques are not the Holy Grail they are often thought to be by novices and, sadly the frequent Joe Public. One tool does not fit all.

"My personal journey over the past 48 years, since I graduated from BCNO (now BCOM), has seen the proportion of soft tissue modality use, shift from around 50%, to around 90% of manual treatment applied.
This has not been an age related change but - I believe - one based on experience of perceived patient benefit.
Also, within that umbrella term 'soft tissue manipulation' , the methods used have moved increasingly from direct to indirect modalities."

Leon Chaitow ND DO
Honorary Fellow, University of Westminster,
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Bodywork & Movement Therapies

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