Cranial Osteopathy: A Practical Textbook - Hardcover

Torsten Liem

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0939616653 ISBN 13: 9780939616657

Publisher: Eastland Press, 2009

Synopsis

Cranial Osteopathy is both a textbook for practical training as well as an in-depth reference book, providing the knowledge base for successful application of cranial osteopathy. Designed with the practitioner in mind, it provides a comprehensive compilation of recent studies and research in this field, with extensive resource materials and nearly 500 illustrations and photographs. This book will deepen your practice of cranial osteopathy in the following ways: * Enable better assessment of responses to treatment * Enable a more integral palpatory approach to the patient, with a deepening of the different dimensions of touch and resonance * Enable better differentiation in the cranial examination of patients * Facilitate the process of conscious listening during palpation * Clarify the act of therapeutic synchronization with the homeodynamic forces in the tissues * Provide a better understanding of the stages of growth and modes of ossification of bones, which explain certain windows of time in treatment * Provide a more precise understanding of sutures to enable more satisfactory delivery of treatment

About this title

About the Author

Torsten Liem, D.O., G.Os.C. (U.K.) trained as an osteopath in Belgium and Germany. He is Principal of the Osteopathie Schule Deutschland (German School of Osteopathy) and directs a Master s program in pediatric osteopathy. Dr. Liem has also trained in psychotherapy, neurolinguistic programming, hypnosis, and acupuncture. He is the author of Cranial Osteopathy: Principles and Practice and the DVD instructional series Rhythmic Balanced Interchange, and has published many books about osteopathy in German. He is also co-founder and former Editor-in-Chief of the journal Osteopathische Medizin. Dr. Liem has worked zealously to promote the realization of osteopathic principles in treatment practice and to forge links between them and the principles of traditional Chinese medicine and yoga, as well as with psychological and energetic approaches. He is co-founder of the Breathe Yoga Center.

Review

Torsten has honored me by asking me to write a foreword to his book. I am impressed with the range and extent of the subject matter, and his grasp of order in learning the science of osteopathy, and particularly the basic principles upon which it operates. He [Torsten] easily grasps that the human body is designed to work correctly, and that it is not the operator s job to make it work right. The physician s role is to encourage and assist the body to do what it knows how to do best, which is to work correctly, thereby regaining good health. Torsten also understands the basic truth of palpation: You do not feel with your fingers, you feel with your brain through your fingers, or whatever part of the body you are utilizing to contact the patient s body. I feel certain that when this book is printed and available to the profession, it will become a basic text for all future students of the science of osteopathy. --Alan R. Becker, D.O., F.A.A.O., F.C.A.

Edition details

• Publisher: Eastland Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0939616653
• ISBN 13: 9780939616657
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 827