Bestselling Move Your DNA has shaken up the health and fitness world with this message: there is more to movement than exercise.

A landmark in explaining biomechanics. Dr. Joan Vernikos, Former Director of NASA's life science division and author of Sitting Kills, Moving Heals

It's often said that movement is medicine, but rarely is the how behind the power of movement explained. It's not only our whole body that's moving; our cells are being moved as our limbs push and pull to locomote us around, and each movement moves our cells uniquely.

Some of the big ideas in this paradigm-shifting book include:

• The human body evolved to a tremendous amount of certain movements―like walking, squatting, hanging, and carrying―loads our bodies still require to work well, even though they're mostly gone from our convenience-centric culture.
• Many of the ailments we face today relate to how little we move and how stiff our bodies are when we do move. Body issues are often more accurately symptoms of movement malnutrition.
• Why a physical therapist or personal trainer is coaching you in alignment or good form we're adapting most to our daily positioning!
• It's not only move more, it's move more of your body parts! (All bodies, couch potatoes to high-level athletes have areas that can be nourished with better movement.)
• We're using exercise like movement vitamins instead of addressing the deeper issue of a poor movement diet. We should be using both!

Move Your DNA also contains:

• 40+ corrective exercises to help you find your sticky spots―areas of your body that just aren't moving (even when the rest of you moves a lot)
• alignment checks and a guide to increasing your walking movements
• simple lifestyle changes to get you moving more (without always needing to add exercise!).

Keen laypeople, yoga and pilates teachers, fitness enthusiasts, personal trainers, physical therapists, and athletes can all use this humorous, passionate, and science-based guide to finally getting the movement every body requires.

At some point in your life, you will experience pain and suffer from injury. But you are not powerless. Your body is not fragile. It is strong and adaptable. With the right education, exercise strategies, and mindset, you can figure out what's wrong and take the first steps toward healing. That is exactly what you will learn how to do in Rehab Science.

In this book, you will gain:

• A foundational understanding of pain science--and how to treat both acute and chronic pain conditions
• The ability to systematically address injuries--identify the type of injury you have and implement the right methods and exercises
• Step-by-step programs for improving movement and mobility and increasing strength and tissue capacity
• Pain-relieving and injury-healing strategies, including soft tissue massage, stretching, mobility, and resistance exercise
• The confidence and education to make informed decisions--like whether or not to get surgery
• Insight on how to prevent injuries and future flare-ups

This book provides 30 programs for the most common pain and injuries in every body region:

• Low back pain
• Sprains and strains--including ankle and wrist sprains, hamstring strains, and whiplash
• Nerve pain--such as sciatica, carpal tunnel, herniated discs, and lumbar stenosis
• Tendinopathies--like tennis elbow, golfer's elbow, hip flexor, gluteal, and patellar tendinopathy
• Ligament and tendon tears--Achilles, rotator cuff, hamstring, groin, ACL, MCL, LCL, and PCL

• Shoulder and hip impingements
• Dislocations and labral tears
• Meniscus tears
• Plantar fasciitis
• Shin splints
• Arthritis--neck, knee, and hip
• And much, much more

The premier text for therapeutic exercise
Here is all the guidance you need to customize interventions for individuals with movement dysfunction. You'll find the perfect balance of theory and clinical technique--in-depth discussions of the principles of therapeutic exercise and manual therapy and the most up-to-date exercise and management guidelines.

Immersive Cases Online--NEW!
Six multimedia clinical scenarios let you practice applying theory to clinical practice. Full-color, narrated videos demonstrate multiple options for exercise progressions and help hone your critical-thinking skills by addressing the challenges of specific pathologies, patient loading, and post-intervention strategies.

Video Library Online
Full-color videos show you how. A complete video library of basic therapeutic exercises and techniques shows you how to achieve the best results for range of motion, stretching, joint mobilization, resistance, and spinal stabilization.

See what students and practitioners are saying online about previous editions...
Great book... with great explanation, descriptions and pictures to describe the various interventions that can be used for specific patient complaints or conditions. Highly recommended!--Natalie B.

Great Standard. This book is a must have for any orthopedic physical therapist. Now it is even better with ICF information in it.--R.F.S.

Good buy.Initially bought this book for PT school. It's quite substantial. Most definitely one of the books I do not plan to sell after I am done with the program. Would recommend.--Talisa S.

Get a multi-dimensional understanding of musculoskeletal anatomy with Anatomy Trains: Myofascial Meridians for Manual Therapists & Movement Professionals, 4th Edition. This hugely successful, one-of-a-kind title continues to center on the application of anatomy trains across a variety of clinical assessment and treatment approaches - demonstrating how painful problems in one area of the body can be linked to a silent area away from the problem, and ultimately giving rise to new treatment strategies. This edition has been fully updated with the latest evidence-based research and includes new coverage of anatomy trains in motion using Pilates-evolved movement, anatomy trains in horses and dogs, and the updated fascial compendium on elements, properties, neurology, and origins of the fascial system. It also offers a new, larger library of videos, including animations and webinars with the author. In all, this unique exploration of the role of fascial in healthy movement and postural distortion is an essential read for physical therapists, massage therapists, craniosacral therapists, yoga instructors, osteopathologists, manual therapists, athletic and personal trainers, dance instructors, chiropractors, acupuncturists, and any professional working in the field of movement.

• Revolutionary approach to the study of human anatomy provides a holistic map of myoanatomy to help improve the outcomes of physical therapies that are traditionally used to manage pain and other musculoskeletal disorders.
• Relevant theory descriptions are applied to all common types of movement, posture analysis, and physical treatment modalities.
• Intuitive content organization allows students to reference the concept quickly or gain a more detailed understanding of any given area according to need.
• Section on myofascial force transmission in gait dynamics is written by guest author James Earls.
• Robust appendices discuss the relevance of the Anatomy Trains concept to the work of Dr Louis Schultz (Meridians of Latitude), Ida Rolf (Structural Integration), and correspondences with acupuncture meridians.

• New photos and images of fascial tissues, adhesions, and layers provide a better understanding of text content.
• Revised and expanded content reflects the most up-to-date research and latest evidence for the scientific basis of common clinical findings.
• New, larger library of videos includes animations and webinars with the author.
• New Anatomy Trains in Motion section by guest author Karin Gurtner uses Pilates-evolved movement to explore strength and plasticity along myofascial meridians.
• New addition: Anatomy Trains in Quadrupeds (horses and dogs) is mapped for equine and pet therapies by Rikke Schultz, DVM, Tove Due, DVM, and Vibeke Elbr nd, DVM, PhD.
• New appendix: Updated fascial compendium on elements, properties, neurology, and origins of the fascial system.
• NEW! enhanced eBook version is included with print purchase, which allows students to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that physical therapy will grow 21 percent between 2020-2030, faster than the average for all occupations. However, getting into physical therapy school is a very competitive process. Less than half of students who apply to physical therapy school are qualified and only 20%-30% are admitted. Become A Physical Therapist provides aspiring students with a blueprint for becoming a physical therapist. The book is a comprehensive guide design to help students with the process of becoming a physical therapist from beginning to end. The book focuses on all major aspects of becoming a physical therapist including getting into physical therapy school, graduating, and getting your license to practice. The book begins with a discussion of the types of settings physical therapists work and the types of patients physical therapists treat. It then provides a brief history of the physical therapy profession. It then provides tips and guidance on choosing the right major in undergrad. The book then provides the necessary steps to take in order to successfully get into physical therapy school as well as tips on interviewing, what to do once you get admitted with tips on how to study, and preparation and tips for passing the national licensure exam. Dr. Gray provides tips and advice that he himself used when applying to physical therapy school that allowed him to be admitted the first time he applied.

This thoroughly revised edition of the authoritative reference Fascial Release for Structural Balance brings the book up to date with all of the most current research on the role of fascia and myofascia in the body, and how treatment affects it. This edition takes advantage of more sophisticated testing to explore in greater detail the relationship between anatomical structure and function, making it an even more essential guide. Offering a detailed introduction to structural anatomy and fascial release therapy, including postural analysis, complete technique descriptions, and the art of proper assessment of a patient through bodyreading, the book features 150 color photographs that clearly demonstrate each technique. The authors, both respected bodywork professionals, give any bodywork practitioner using manual therapy--including physiotherapists, osteopaths, chiropractors, myofascial and trigger point therapists, and massage therapists--the information they need to deliver effective treatments and create long-lasting, systemic change in clients' shape and structure.

Fascia, the soft tissue surrounding muscles, bones, and organs, plays a crucial role in supporting the body. By learning to intelligently manipulate it, a bodyworker or therapist can help with many chronic conditions that their clients suffer from, providing immediate pain relief as well as reducing the strains that may contribute to the patient's ongoing aches and pains, leading to rapid, effective, and lasting pain relief. James Earls and Thomas Meyers argue that approaching the fascia requires a different eye, a different touch, and tissue-specific techniques.

Clinical Kinesiology and Anatomy, 7th Edition and an updated and enhanced Kinesiology in Action work together to create an immersive, multimedia experience that tracks your progress until you've mastered the must-know primary concepts and principles of human movement and are ready to apply them in class, clinic, and practice. You'll develop the foundational knowledge, critical-thinking skills, and technical competencies you need to understand kinesiology.

An access code inside new, printed texts unlocks an ebook, as well as access to Kinesiology in Action.

The Text
The 7th Edition of this classic kinesiology text presents a very complicated topic in a clear, simple, and easy-to-understand manner. Bite-size sections and over 550 full color illustrations show how various anatomical systems are structured to help you identify and see the connections between them and how they work together to provide function.

• Expanded! Emphasis on the biomechanical and kinesiological principles
• Revised! Reorganization of content to make foundational information easier to understand and apply
• New! Three types of tables in each extremity joint chapter, Range of Motion for Osteokinematic Movements, Osteokinematic and Arthrokinematic Motions and Classification of Articular System and Arthrokinematic Characteristics
• Introductory chapters that present an essential foundation in body systems, terminology, and biomechanical principles
• Well-designed charts that summarize companion movements and prime movers
• Use of analogies to make concepts comprehensible and memorable
• Points to Remember, Summary of Muscles, Summary of Muscle Innervation, and Summary of Muscle Action tables.
• End-of-chapter review questions

• New! User-friendly, contemporary design and functionality
• New! Exercises and activities to engage and challenge students
• New! Videos for each joint module showing joint motion and functional activity, palpation points, and bony landmarks
• Gradebook and class management tools to make it easy for instructors to monitor students' progress and intervene to remediate
• Introductory Video--overview of each module
• Pre-Assessment--10 multiple-choice questions that record your results to your gradebook
• Pre-Lab Practice--Labeling, coloring, matching, and muscle identification activities as well as flashcards, with all results recorded to your gradebook
• Lab Activities--Critical-Thinking, Video-Based Lessons--60 all-new videos displaying palpation and joint motions
• Post-Lab Assessment--10 multiple-choice questions that record your results to your gradebook
• Video Library--134 videos in all, including 60 videos from the lab activities

The flagship title from the prestigious American College of Sports Medicine, this critical handbook delivers scientifically based, evidence-informed standards to prepare you for success.

Providing succinct summaries of recommended procedures for exercise testing and exercise prescription in healthy and diseased patients, this trusted manual is an essential resource for all exercise professionals, as well as other health professionals who may counsel patients on exercise including physicians, nurses, physician assistants, physical and occupational therapists, dieticians, and health care administrators. The extensively updated eleventh edition has been reorganized for greater clarity and integrates the latest Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans.

• UPDATED! Integrated guidelines, including the 2018 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, reflect the most current, clinically sound approaches to exercise testing and prescription.
• NEW! Chapter on conditions that affect the brain familiarizes students with specific strategies for the treatment of Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, autism, depression and anxiety.
• UPDATED! Enhanced organization helps students find information quickly and easily.
• FITT (Frequency, Intensity, Time, Type) boxes make locating critical exercise prescription information quick and easy.
• Revised appendices integrate valuable information on ECGs, medication and emergency management where it is most relevant. A new appendix on metabolic equations is included.
• Additional boxes, tables, and figures highlight important concepts and approaches at a glance.

'Graded Exposure' was a course developed by Louis to help physiotherapists to integrate theory into practise. Topics include; the biomedical model; evolutionary reasoning; the vulnerable organism model; fear avoidance model; model of disability and the biopsychosocial model. Section 4 is the 'shopping basket approach' essentially giving therapists a system and method to assess and manage patients well. Louis uses 4 questions, What's wrong? How long? What can I do? and What can you do? These need to be answered with every patient every time.

Finally, four sections of Case Histories. Patient stories to help put theory into practise.

Learn active and passive movement testing from the most comprehensive resource available on the subject:
* Highly visual lab manual style presentation with 440 illustrations
* Follows the Guide to Physical Therapy Practice
* Complete discussion of most active and passive movement testing procedures for all areas of the body
* Covers the loose-pack position (LPP) for all necessary movement assessments
* Includes evaluation techniques for the extremities, the spine, pelvis, and temporomandibular joint
* Text details the principles of mobilization for treatment intervention, based on physiologic and accessory movements

This richly illustrated book provides a system for understanding and memorizing musculoskeletal anatomy and kinesiology. While there are many books available that cover the subject, Mastering Muscles & Movement presents a fresh approach that is designed to leverage the natural ways the brain observes, learns, and recalls this type of information. Rather than employing the usual one-muscle-per-page format, this book treats groups of muscles as movement families and presents them in a way that provides a rich visual, verbal, and relational learning environment.

The result is a truly brain-friendly experience for the student. The myriad details and interrelationships are easily recognized in simple and natural ways by the innovative arrangement of the muscle information on each page and from page-to-page. The reader comfortably stays aware of the bigger picture while studying any one item, easily compares and contrasts related features and facts, and is enabled to structure study time to play to strengths or to eliminate weaknesses.

Over 170 muscles are covered, as well as all bones, bony landmarks, joints, ligaments, and other related structures. Anatomy and kinesiology concepts and terminology are clearly presented. Detailed yet friendly diagrams employ over 600 illustrations to provide accurate renditions that leverage the natural ways that the brain understands and learns this multifaceted body of knowledge.

Starting from the traditional approach to yoga, you will discover how each yoga pose affects the inner body and how systematic yoga practice can increase your overall health and well-being. You will also learn the ancient principles of sequencing asanas according to their corresponding chakras (energy centers).

Renowned yoga teacher trainers Ram Jain and Michèle Hauswirth describe how to create safe, fulfilling, and holistic Hatha Yoga practices for different levels of ability and goals. They provide visual and practical descriptions of over 200 asanas, with detailed instructions, alignment cues, contraindications, and suggested modifications based on the experience level of the practitioner. The sample sequences of varying lengths will help you reap the benefits of Hatha Yoga and elevate your yoga experience to a whole new level.

Become a successful evidence-based practitioner

How do you evaluate the evidence? Is the information accurate, relevant and meaningful for clinical decision making? Did the design fit the research questions and was the analysis and interpretation of data appropriate?

Here are all the materials you need to take your first steps as evidence-based practitioners...how to use the design, data and analysis of research as the foundation for effective clinical decision making. You'll find support every step of the way as you progress from the foundations of clinical research and concepts of measurement through the processes of designing studies and analyzing data to writing their own research proposal.

Five Stars. Best book I have read explaining research. Not too complicated - but very thorough.--Amazon Reviewer

Simply the best. This is such a valuable resource. Bought it for the DPT program I am enrolled in. I will keep it as an excellent resource. So well written.--Amazon Reviewer

... this is a great book. It explains concepts so well! Our professor changed to this book the next year. All the OTs and PTs in my PhD program have bought this book. This is in my keep forever collection. Everyone in my department has the book and only loans it out with strict instructions for its return.--Kelly A., Amazon Reviewer

The extensive and ground-breaking work of Dr. Jacquelin Perry is encompassed and detailed in the world renowned text, Gait Analysis: Normal and Pathological Function. The medical, healthcare, and rehabilitation professions key text for over 18 years on gait....

Now available in a much anticipated New Second Edition

Dr. Jacquelin Perry is joined by Dr. Judith Burnfield to present today's latest research findings on human gait. Gait Analysis, Second Edition has been updated and expanded to focus on current research, more sophisticated methods, and the latest equipment available to analyze gait.

What is New:
- A new chapter covering running
- Synergy of motion between the two limbs
- A new chapter covering pediatrics
- A new chapter covering stair negotiation
- New and updated clinical examples
- A section on power inside each chapter covering normal gait
- New methods and equipment to analyze gait

This Second Edition to Gait Analysis offers a re-organization of the chapters and presentation of material in a more user-friendly, yet comprehensive format. Essential information is provided describing gait functions, and clinical examples to identify and interpret gait deviations. Learning is further reinforced with images and photographs.

Features:
- Six sections cover the fundamentals, normal gait, pathological gait, clinical considerations, advanced locomotor functions, and gait analysis systems
- Clinical significance of the most common pathological gait patterns
- Over 470 illustrations and photographs, as well as 40 tables
- Patient examples to illustrate elements of normal and pathological gait

Tens of thousands of orthopedic, orthotic and prosthetic, physical therapy, and other rehabilitation professionals have kept a copy of Gait Analysis by their side for over 18 years...join the thousands more who will bring the Second Edition into their clinics, classrooms, and personal collections.

Michael J. Gelb reveals the methods behind Frederick Matthias Alexander's groundbreaking health exercise regimen in Body Learning: An Introduction to the Alexander Technique.

The Alexander Technique is now recognized the world over as the most revolutionary and far-reaching method developed for maintaining the health and efficiency of the body. Essentially a type of therapy that aims to treat and prevent a range of disorders through a system of postural changes, the Technique stresses the importance of reeducating the muscular system as a means to achieve physical and mental well-being. By unlearning common bad postural habits and ways of using the body, people can alleviate tension, fatigue, back pain, neck stiffness, asthma, headaches, depression, and many other ailments.

Body Learning also shows how the Technique can be applied to every kind of learning experience, from children's education and the acquiring of basic skills to the most advanced needs of musicians, entertainers, professionals, and athletes.

This revised and updated edition features:

* Answers to the most commonly asked questions about the Technique
* Further adventures in learning how to learn
* The Balanced Resting State procedure: an aid to dynamic relaxation
* Glossary of significant terms
* And much more

Forging light from the darkness: A young physical therapist's transformative first year.

In the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic, a young physical therapist is thrown into his first year of clinical practice and his pursuit of residency training. Building a Light is an inspiring memoir that follows Derek Tao's challenging pursuit of professional growth and personal transformation amidst a global crisis. From navigating high-stakes situations to forming deep connections with memorable patients, he reflects on the life-altering insights gained when the world's future seemed fragile. With raw honesty, Tao shares how he found the resilience to face adversity head-on, fueled by a driving passion to expand his capacity to help the patients around him.

Divided into three sections, it will help you to prepare for lab, guide you through lab activities, and serve as an after-lab review that ensures you build a solid knowledge base of kinesiology.

• Updated, Enhanced, & Revised! Content that reflects the most current information on the science that is the foundation of kinesiology
• Expanded! More critical-thinking type questions
• Follows the organization of Clinical Kinesiology and Anatomy, 7th Edition, chapter by chapter.
• Explores the basic structure and function of the human body, including joints, ligaments, nerves, blood vessels, bones and bony landmarks, muscle origin and insertion.
• Provides a simple and clear presentation of gait and posture.
• Includes functional anatomy questions to help you understand where muscles are placed in the body and how they work together.
• Offers photographs in the palpations sections to assist in locating muscles and landmarks.
• Features an analysis of a functional task in the upper and lower extremity chapters to determine what movements are needed, what muscles are working, and the type of contractions the muscles are performing. (Each joint of an extremity is analyzed for the same functional task.)

A comprehensive guide to neurological rehabilitation for physical therapist assistants (PTAs), Umphred's Neurorehabilitation for the Physical Therapist Assistant, Third Edition presents contemporary, evidence-based principles and techniques for examination and intervention for individuals with neurological conditions.

Umphred's Neurorehabilitation for the Physical Therapist Assistant, Third Edition addresses a wide variety of pediatric and adult neurological disorders, including spinal cord injury, brain injury, stroke, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, and more.

Drs. Lazaro and Umphred have updated this classic text to reflect current and emerging trends in physical therapy, including:

• The role of the PTA in neurocritical care
• The role of the PTA in management of clients with lifelong impairments and activity limitations
• Technology in neurorehabilitation

Also included is a new chapter on functional neuroanatomy, which provides the foundational background for understanding the relationship between the structure and function of the nervous system.

The Third Edition also features helpful instructor and student resources. Included with the text are online supplemental materials for faculty use in the classroom.

Umphred's Neurorehabilitation for the Physical Therapist Assistant, Third Edition is the definitive resource for any PTA faculty, student, or clinician interested in the physical therapy management of individuals with neurological conditions.