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Well researched and evidence-based, this book takes a unique medical approach to describing applied massage techniques for common conditions and their utilization as an adjunct to both conventional and complementary treatments. Offers guidelines on the assessment of each body region prior to massage, including symptoms and signs relating to pathology. Features photographs and line drawings that clearly illustrate correct postural techniques.

The history of massage is always of interest and frequently included in most massage books, however, this subject has become extensive due
to the magnitude of data now available. I have consequently narrowed the history to a short section on the clinical use of massage and given examples when it was of significant interest in the past.

With an increasing number of bone cements available, it is vital that the correct material is selected for specific clinical procedures. A review of the most recent research in this field, this book covers such topics as hip replacements, verteboplasty and wear particles and osteolysis. It reviews materials and types of cement such as acrylic, polymethylmethacrylate and calcium phosphate cements and address the mechanical properties of bone cements such as fracture toughness and dynamic creep. The book closes with an examination of methods to enhance the properties of bone cements such as antibiotic loaded bone cements and bioactive cements.

Orthopaedic Bone Cements
CRC | 2008-11-05 | ISBN: 1420093029 | 320 pages | PDF | 3 MB


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ACUPUNCTURE IN PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH is a concise highly illustrated and practical guide to using acupuncture to treat women throughout their pregnancy and labour. Drawing on an unparalleled wealth of experience as a midwife and an acupuncturist, the author has produced a book accessible to both acupuncture students and practitioners covering physiology related to pregnancy and childbirth, illuminating links between Western knowledge and acupuncture approaches and suggesting points and point combinations for particular stages and actions during pregnancy and labour.

Highly illustrated with summary boxes and guidelines
Covers nutritional aspects of pregnancy
Gives practical advice and instruction on the use of acupuncture through the four trimesters of pregnancy and labour
Uses case examples to further illustrate the text

Covers recent advances in relation to the effects of aspirin and heparin to the immune system and pregnancy
Includes IVF pregnancies
Glossary and appendix of useful addresses
Fully updated and revised throughout to include recent research
Nutrition and its effect on the foetus (new and developing area of research)

This new edition of this highly successful book describes how musculoskeletal pain can be simply and effectively treated by acupuncture. Building on a thorough review of the scientific evidence available, the provides a detailed and practical account of the many different forms of musculoskeletal pain and the specific ways in which acupuncture can be applied effectively to trigger points to alleviate this pain. Case studies are included to aid diagnosis and choice of treatment.

• Evidence-based, up-to-date, and detailed information on trigger points, musculoskeletal pain, and the physiology of pain provide the most authoritative assessments available on this topic.
• Practical, step-by-step treatment guidelines help readers apply key concepts to actual practice.
• Clear illustrations demonstrate important techniques and areas of pain and needling.
• Expanded coverage of fibromyalgia and the neurophysiology of myofascial trigger points includes common symptoms and treatments.
• More information on new treatment options for the common problem of whiplash injuries.

• Expanded chapter on fibromyalgia
• Expanded chapter on the neurophysiology of myofascial trigger points
• Revised and updated throughout to include all relevant clinical trial information
• More information on whiplash injuries
• New chapter on complex regional pain syndromes

A 1998 study at University of Arizona into the treatment of depression in 33 women by acupuncture was fairly widely reported in the acupuncture profession and elsewhere. The study found that 64% of the women experienced full remission of depression following depression-specific acupuncture treatment, appearing to show that acupuncture can provide significant symptom relief at rates comparable to standard treatments such as psychotherapy or pharmacotherapy.

This textbook by the authors of the study is subtitled A Manual for Practice and Research and indeed can almost be seen as two books in one. As a clinical manual for the treatment of depression it has a very great deal to offer practitioners, with detailed discussion of both western and Chinese medicine approaches. As far as the former is concerned, there are sections on the definition of major depression, description of conventional treatments for depression and their efficacy, and theories on the causation of depression (psychological and biological). The larger part of the book however is occupied with the Chinese medicine approach. Apart from fairly short sections offering a presentation of basic theories, most of it is aimed at a level that will inform students and practitioners: disease causes (including the six depressions and six stagnations, and yin fire), depression and the life cycle (adolescence, the menstrual cycle, menopause, pregnancy, postpartum and ageing), analysis of the main presenting patterns, treatment strategies and techniques etc., and three case studies. Much of this is offered in impressive detail and is accompanied by further useful discussion of the patient-practitioner relationship, assessing the risk of suicide in depressed patients, and when physician referral might be necessary.

As far as the research aspect is concerned, the authors discuss various study designs and describe their own study and its protocols and results. This part will be of value to anyone contemplating acupuncture research.

The two main facets of the book sit together reasonably comfortably, although the need for standardised treatment that informed their research project does seep into the clinical sections, and criteria such as limiting point selection to the list offered in the book, using only 7 body points and 3 auricular points per treatment, or only using front-mu points for the first seven weeks, should not determine how practitioners approach the treatment of depression outside this specific research setting.


I have minor queries concerning one or two passages on point selection and treatment approaches. For example the Chong mai (Penetrating vessel) is described as connecting the Liver with the Pericardium, and yet again the outer Bladder channel points Pohu BL-42, Shentang BL-44, Hunmen BL-47, Yishe BL-49 and Zhishi BL-52 are emphasised as important in the treatment of mental and emotional disorders. As far as the Chong mai is concerned I have never heard of this connection. As for the Bladder channel points, I am mainly curious where this by now well established tradition comes from. There does not seem to have been such an understanding of these points in classical Chinese acupuncture, and whether it comes from some other classical acupuncture tradition, or has developed more recently from a fascination with their names, is something I have often wondered about.

These quibbles apart, I would say that any practitioner (and judging by a typical clinic’s patient population this would be every practitioner) who treats depression will find material of substantial value in the book.

Medical Acupuncture Society. Introduces a new system of performing acupuncture, more closely related to Western medicine, based on radiation of sensation, Strong Reactor patients, and a knowledge of acupuncture areas. Features new material on the application of needling of the hand or foot to evoke response in half of the body. Previous edition: c1992. Softcover.