Medical therapeutic yoga : biopsychosocial rehabilitation and wellness care

Medical therapeutic yoga Biopsychosocial rehabilitation and wellness care

Ginger Garner

Book - 2016

For yoga to be used safely as medicine and to meet the needs of today's society, yoga postures should evolve by embracing the current evidence base. Medical Therapeutic Yoga provides this evolution. This book serves as a modern, non-dogmatic, evidence-based guide to yoga posture and breath prescription based on the most current biomechanical and neurophysiological theory and common mechanisms of injury. Medical Therapeutic Yoga covers injury prevention and wellness, clinical evaluation and diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation, and organizational and professional health and well-being.The book applies yoga as medicine for physical therapy, occupational therapy, athletic training, sports medicine, pain management, and physical and reh...abilitative medicine. Evolution of the postures and breath techniques, via the evidence-based precepts presented in the book, will provide a patient-centered biopsychosocial model of assessment through the lens of integrative medicine and orthopaedics. Medical Therapeutic Yoga brings a large body of work, known as medical therapeutic yoga, to health care professionals, making provision for safe and relevant application of yoga postures as medicine. The book is accompanied by an online reference of photographic sequences for medical yoga program planning and prescription.

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Subjects
Yoga > Therapeutic use.
Alternative medicine.
Medical rehabilitation.
Published
Edinburgh : Handspring Publishing 2016.
Language
English
Main Author
Ginger Garner (author)
Physical Description
xv, 381 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-367) and index.
ISBN
9781909141131
  • Dedication
  • Reviews
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Information on instructional videos
  • 1. Precepts for integration of yoga and rehabilitation
  • 2. The biopsychosocial model for yoga in healthcare
  • 3. Neurophysiological foundations for evidence in practice: historical and contemporary support
  • 4. Respiratory assessment and special testing
  • 5. Functional movement assessment algorithm
  • 6. Standing postures
  • 7. Seated postures
  • 8. Supine postures
  • 9. Prone postures
  • 10. Semi-inversions
  • 11. Applied Medical Therapeutic Yoga
  • 12. Considerations for medical providers and yoga professionals
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Index

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