Systemic Manual Therapy Treating Complex Cases by Addressing Central Sensitization and Circulatory Congestion: An Instructional Manual for Physical Therapists

Not everyone’s health can be conveniently compartmentalized. Where can individuals with complicated physical impairments and chronic pain issues turn? When her neurologist dismisses her as a malingerer, should this patient just give up? If each of three different physical therapists offered interventions for a man’s chronic pain that only made him worse, how should he proceed? When a high school student was compelled to drop out of school because she was too ill to continue, since all she had been offered for her POTS was ineffective medications, where can she go for help?This book provides the clinician with powerful yet gentle tools developed specifically to help those whose problems can be largely misdiagnosed, neglected or entirely missed by conventional medicine. It offers the practicing physical therapist meticulously detailed structural approaches for treating central sensitization and circulatory congestion using Systemic Manual Therapy (SMT). Systemic Manual Therapy is an umbrella term that comprises several dozen treatment protocols that encompass various osteopathic and manual physical therapy techniques. These protocols have been standardized, which greatly facilitates patient evaluation, as well as teaching and dissemination to other working clinicians. Systemic Manual Therapy can be very effective in the treatment of many neurological, neuromuscular and musculoskeletal conditions that are not easily treated with medications or exercise. Read more