Main description:

Naturopathic Physical Medicine provides a philosophical naturopathic perspective, as
well as practical clinical applications, for manual and physical approaches to health care. A wide range of bodywork and movement approaches and modalities are evaluated in relation to their ability to be appropriately used in naturopathic treatment and rehabilitation settings.

Naturopathic methodology suggests that therapeutic measures should match the ability of the individual to respond positively, without negative side-effects. The model of care emphasised in this text recognizes that naturopathically oriented therapeutic interventions usually focus on achieving one or all of the following:
. Enhancement of function so that the person, system or part, can better self-regulate in response to adaptive demands.
. Modification or removal of adaptive load factors
. Symptomatic relief without creation of significant additional adaptive changes

Contents:

Chapter 1 Physical Medicine in a Naturopathic Context

Chapter 2 Adaptation and the evolution of disease and dysfunction

Chapter 3 History of Naturopathic Physical Medicine

Chapter 4 Naturopathic Physical Medicine

Chapter 5 Assessment and palpation: Accuracy and reliability Issues

Chapter 6 Assessment/palpation section: Skills

Chapter 7 Modalities, methods and techniques

Chapter 8 Integrated Naturopathic (manual) Physical Medicine Protocols

Chapter 9 Rehabilitation and Re-education (movement) approaches

Chapter 10 Naturopathic Physical Medicine Approaches to General Health Enhancement and Specific Conditions

Chapter 11 Naturopathic Hydrotherapy

Chapter 12 Electrotherapy Modalities