Physical Movement

A groundbreaking and fascinating investigation into the transformative effects of exercise on the brain, from the bestselling author and renowned psychiatrist John J. Ratey, MD. Did you know you can beat stress, lift your mood, fight memory loss, sharpen your intellect, and function better than...

 A Guide to Better Movement offers a clear and practical look at emerging science related to the brain's role in movement and pain. It is written for movement professionals, athletes, chronic pain sufferers, and anyone else interested in moving better and feeling better. 

A tender point can be clinically meaningful without being the whole diagnosis. The Myofascial Patient is an advanced guide for physical therapists and rehabilitation professionals who want to use hands-on care, physical agents, and exercise without allowing any technique to replace reasoning. Rather than treating every “knot” as a local tissue problem, Caroline Joy Co shows how to interpret myofascial findings within the patient’s history, symptom behavior, irritability, differential diagnosis, load tolerance, nervous-system sensitivity, recovery, goals, and participation. Readers ...

Are you ready to move beyond quick fixes and discover a proven path to long-lasting strength, mobility, and healing? The Power of Somatic Exercises is your guide to reconnecting with your body, reducing stress, and improving the way you move, feel, and live. This audiobook combines the science of somatic movement with practical, easy-to-follow routines designed to help you relieve chronic pain, stiffness, and tension.

While Parkinson’s Disease can be debilitating, there is plenty of compelling data to show that exercise is one of the best ways of managing PD symptoms. Studies show that regular exercise can improve gait, grip, balance, stability, strength, and motor control in the PD client. In addition, this improvement in movement and mobility helps to reduce falls, injuries, and various other complications of the disease in the PD client.

Bloomsbury presents A Beginner's Guide to the Roots of Yoga: How to create a more authentic practice by Nikita Desai read by Nikita Desai, Prasad Rangnekar and Sid Sagar ‘This will play a crucial role in preserving the true spirit of yoga for future generations.’ – Vex King Learn how to...

In Stroke Recovery, Regaining Arm Movement, Tracy share illustrations of the many muscles in the body that participate in the movements of the arm and exercises. In Stroke Recovery Regaining Arm Movement, Tracy brings hope, knowledge, and exercises that can assist a survivor in the healing of their arm, hand, and fingers. In many cases, stroke recovery patients do not receive enough physical therapy to help them reach the full potential in their stroke recovery. This leaves many stroke survivors seeking help from other sources, such as personal trainers, Pilates teachers, and other ...

Feel overwhelmed by PCOS? Discover a calm, clear path to balance your hormones, restore your energy, and feel like yourself again—one simple, sustainable step at a time.

Whether it's worrying about work, 'doomscrolling' on your phone or overcaffeinating yourself to get through the day, modern lifestyle choices are robbing us from the sleep we deserve. But how can we break free from the vicious cycle of fatigue and insomnia? Allen Carr's Easyway method offers a unique solution. This world-renowned, clinically proven method has helped an estimated 50 million people with their behavioural issues and addictions, including smoking, alcohol, weight control and digital addiction. In this book, this tried-and-tested method is applied to sleeping difficulties.

Biomechanics of Your Body, A Simplified Way to Learn Human Movement and Muscles easily teaches where a muscle attaches and what movements that muscle performs. Whether you are reaching out to learn more about muscles and movements of the human body for yourself, a class, or your profession, this book is for you. Knowledge is power. The more you know about your own body the better you can take care of it and make it stronger at any age. This book will answer many questions such as: What are the names of the muscles on the human body? What muscles perform which movements? What muscles extend ...

Celebrity trainer and goop expert Lauren Roxburgh's program that uses pelvic floor strength to release stress, fortify the body, and treat the physical and mental origins of tension. Chances are your body feels some form of stress every day, whether it's inflammation, bloating, tension...

Proprioception is more than balance. It is how patients learn to sense, control, and trust movement again. The Proprioceptive Patient is an evidence-informed clinical guide for physical therapists, rehabilitation professionals, educators, and students who want to think more precisely about proprioceptive training, body awareness, movement accuracy, and sensorimotor confidence. Too often, proprioception is reduced to wobble boards, foam pads, eyes-closed balance drills, or vague documentation phrases such as “poor proprioception.” This book takes a deeper and more practical approach. It ...

Rebuild, Restore, and Rebalance—From Head to Toe. Whether you’re battling chronic pain, recovering from injury, or striving to move at your best, this book is your complete roadmap to a stronger, healthier, and more resilient body. From the neck to the feet—and everything in between—each chapter offers practical, evidence-based guidance to help you understand your body’s mechanics, correct imbalances, and move without pain. Designed for athletes, active individuals, and anyone seeking long-term mobility and strength, this head-to-toe manual bridges the gap between physical therapy...

For many young people, physical education is more a source of stress than enjoyment—often marked by anxiety, frustration, and disengagement. When PE becomes overly focused on sport performance or rigid teaching methods, it can alienate students and create lasting negative associations with physical activity. From PE Dread to Delight challenges this narrative. This practical and inspiring guide explores how PE can be transformed into an inclusive, engaging, and meaningful experience for every student. Drawing on the expertise of leading practitioners as well as renowned PE researchers, the...

Born blind and declared incurably blind after a series of childhood operations left him with only a slight ability to discern light and shadow, Meir Schneider remained convinced that his handicap was not permanent. As a teenager, he began work with two teachers who gave him exercises and techniques to reverse his blindness. Within four years, he had gained a remarkable degree of vision and begun to develop a system of therapeutic exercise combining movement, breathing, and mental imagery.

Sources are scarce in writing about the theme of the role movement, and specifically – exercise, plays in the Bible and how God uses it to accomplish His purposes. A genre I call ‘biblical philosophy,’ is expounded on in the book and I think readers will be pleasantly surprised to see the imperative God places on the discipline of movement science, how faith and fitness are related, and how God ordained that many times physical exertion is a foretaste of the sublime and peer into the spiritual. The reason I wrote this book is to lead readers to Christ and/or deepen already existing ...

Len Almond and Joy Butler were giants in the field of Physical Education pedagogy and especially in their advocacy for, and leadership of, the Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) movement. Sadly, Len and Joy passed away within two years of each other. This book celebrates their work and their combined legacy, containing reprints of some of Len and Joy’s most influential articles and book chapters, in some cases with commentary from colleagues and in other cases standing alone. Other chapters in the book are commentaries provided by noted scholars who are particularly close to Len or ...

Motor relearning is not only a neurologic concept. It is the work of helping patients move again when movement has become unsafe, inefficient, uncertain, or no longer automatic. The Motor Relearning Patient is a practical clinical reasoning guide for physical therapists, students, and rehabilitation clinicians working with patients who present with complex movement problems across neurologic and oncology rehabilitation. Written from the perspective of a practicing physical therapist, this book connects motor relearning principles to real clinical decisions: how to observe movement, identify...

Myofascial Self-Healing for Movement and Pain-Free Living! Has pain, stiffness, discomfort, or a joint problem destroyed your quality of life? Are your mobility, athletic performance, and recovery hindered by your body’s unyielding lethargy? You can break free, past the pain and inertia, with myofascial release therapy. This is a guide, to not only understand the most overlooked, yet likeliest explanation for your pain, it’s a roadmap to liberate you from it. Myofascial Release 101 dissects the impact of physical and emotional trauma and demystifies how they hijack your fascial system, ...

Somatic Movement: Restoring Functional, Pain-Free Movement and Moving Towards Connection and Wholeness guides you through the approach that enables you to move and live as you’re made to. This approach is based upon Clinical Somatic Education developed by Thomas Hanna. This is an empowering method that helps you to learn and understand what your subconscious muscular holding patterns are that are causing or contributing to your pain, restricted movement, and disconnection. You then learn how to release these holding patterns, through very intentional, gentle yet powerful somatic movements.