The Cervical & Thoracic Spine: Mechanical Diagnosis & Therapy"This edition explains the centralisation and peripheralisation phenomena; the use of exercise to induce changes in pain location and intesity; the means of detecting the most effective direction in which to apply therapeutic exercise; differentiation between the pain of displacement, pain of contracture and pain arising from normal tissue; how to differentiate the pain of nerve root adherence from entrapment and sciatica." - Cover. |
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Introduction | 1 |
CHAPTER | 5 |
CHAPTER TWO Pain and Connective Tissue Properties | 17 |
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