Complementary and alternative medicine and therapies

Fascia in Sport and Movement, Second edition is a multi-author book with contributions from 51 leading teachers and practitioners across the entire spectrum of bodywork and movement professions.

Muscle testing - A Concise Manual, provides a reference for understanding how structure relates to function, and how by knowing function we can learn structural configurations.

The Fascial Distortion Model (FDM) was introduced by the American physician Stephen Typaldos (1957-2006).

In Functional Exercise Prescription, Eyal Lederman presents a revolutionary new approach for exercise prescription that uses the individual's own movement repertoire.

Osteopathy, and Bowen therapy in particular, emphasises the importance of making therapeutic pauses during treatments.

Designed for Pilates and yoga teachers, health and rehabilitation professionals, 'The Power and the Grace' demystifies functional movement and integrates the science of movement with the art of teaching it.

The management of scar tissue is a huge and growing problem for massage and other manual therapists.

The book aims: To enable osteopaths - and other manual practitioners/bodyworkers - to understand the importance of fascia and its relevance to their work.

Energetic Kinesiology is an emerging field internationally in the Complementary Health Sciences, gaining more and more scientific support and recognition.

Reiki is a healing technique, using gentle touch with the hands placed on or slightly away from the body to optimize physical, mental and emotional health.

This is a brand new edition of a successful book which was one of the first to encourage movement therapists and bodyworkers to look at the postural causes of movement problems, rather than focusing treatment just on the physical symptoms.

This is a comprehensive reference textbook for all those using osteopathic treatment techniques with animals or birds or studying to do so.

Yoga is a comprehensive mind-body practice that is particularly effective for self-regulation, mood management, fostering resilience, and promotion of wellbeing.

This book's aim is to help the herbal traveller.

An eloquent guide to embarking on the journey of exploring the incredible healing power of plants.

Practical Herbs 2 is written for everyone who likes to harvest and process their own herbs from the wild or from their gardens.

Practical Herbs is written for everyone who likes to harvest and process their own herbs from the wild or from their gardens.

A perennial favourite with students and practitioners, this is the go-to reference book for 180 medicinal herbs and their actions.

This new reissue of Hands On, first published in 1994, will be welcomed by all complementary and alternative medical students and practitioners.

More and more women are discovering that herbal remedies can provide natural and effective treatments for their health problems, particularly when orthodox methods fail to help.

The art of osteopathy has always been based on a body of anatomical and physiological theory and data but it has recently been expanded in exciting ways involving contemporary thinking in physics and biology that tell us more about disease causation and tissue function.

Far from being simply a sequence of techniques, as practised in many countries osteopathy is an independent primary health care system based on principles applied through a manual practice: a unique profession that takes care of the whole person through the application of five models (biomechanical, neurological, respiratory-circulatory, metabolic, and behavioral).

The book brings together a range of examination and assessment techniques which are otherwise only found in a variety of different places.

Fascial dysfunction is now recognised as one of the main underlying causes of musculoskeletal pain leading to impaired and reduced mobility.

Freedom to Move offers an exercise blueprint for rehabilitating back and neck pain and the spinal dysfunction associated with many 'injuries'.

Dr Martin's book provides a theoretical framework and specific progressive exercises in the Pilates environment in their work with those individuals who have asymmetries of the spine, ribcage and pelvis associated with conditions such as scoliosis.

In 35 chapters written by the editors and a team of internationally renowned contributors, the book covers the underlying principles of osteopathic palpation from a biodynamic and 'morphodynamic' perspective, and their application in the cranial field and the spinal cord.

Motility, relating to the vital energy of the human tissues, is a basic concept in osteopathy.

Fascia has become the new buzzword in the field of rehabilitation and movement re-education.

Advanced Myofascial Techniques, Volume 2 is the second of two beautiful, information-packed guides to highly effective manual therapy techniques.

Numerous studies have made the 'placebo effect' the most-studied healing phenomenon known to mankind.

Advanced Myofascial Techniques, Volume 1 is the first of two beautiful, information-packed guides to highly effective manual therapy techniques.

The healing arts involve a complex range of skills which each practitioner draws together in a unique way.

Would you use complementary and alternative medicines (CAMS)?

Complementary and integrative medicine (CIM) has become big business.

Research Design in Chinese Medicine: Linking Social and Health Sciences is an innovative and comprehensive guide that bridges the ancient wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) with modern research methods in social and health sciences.

This book looks at how therapies involving animals can be used to help individuals with autism to develop skills, including sensory and social skills, to manage challenging behaviors, and improve quality of life.

Complementary therapists are seldom trained in the 'people skills' necessary for working with their clients.

In this completely revised, updated and expanded volume, the editors have brought together some of the field's most outstanding contributors to examine the wide-ranging applications and promise of the use of hypnosis with children.

This book offers new strategies, techniques, and scripts as well as reviewing traditional methods of treating addictions.

Hypnotic Regression Therapy, or HRT, is a type of hypnotherapy in which, following the induction of a good trance state, specialized suggestions are given to guide the client in reviewing and emotionally reframing earlier experiences that have either caused or contributed to the client's current symptoms.

This book offers new strategies and scripts for hypnotherapists, sports counsellors and sports psychologists working with athletes to help them achieve their peak performance.

Hypnosis is an invaluable tool that can quickly and effectively influence the subconscious mind and promote lasting change.

This book dissects and describes the conceptual ingredients that construct hypnotic language.

A collection of brand new general scripts from Lynda Hudson, author of Scripts and Strategies in Hypnotherapy with Children ISBN: 9781845901394.

Now in it's fourth edition, this classic text presents a comprehensive overview of client-centred hypnosis based on the teachings of Charles Tebbetts.

Crown House is pleased to announce the publication of the third edition of The Art of Hypnosis: Mastering Basic Techniques by Roy Hunter.

A handbook for therapists that contains everything needed when using hypnotherapy with children and young people.

Scripts and Strategies in Hypnotherapy Volumes 1 and 2 have been combined to create the single most comprehensive source of scripts and strategies that can be used by hypnotherapists of all levels of experience to build a successful framework for any therapy session.