Regaining Balance

This small group study is written as a devotional journal designed to guide its readers through a season of spiritual renewal. Each day of the 91-day journal encourages involvement in a handful of spiritual disciplines in order to help the reader regain focus and balance in every aspect of life. It is perfect for individual or group study.

First Nations peoples believe the eagle flies with a female wing and a male wing, showing the importance of balance between the feminine and the masculine in all aspects of individual and community experiences. Centuries of colonization, however, have devalued the traditional roles of First Nations women, causing a great gender imbalance that limits the abilities of men, women, and their communities in achieving self-actualization.Restoring the Balance brings to light the work First Nations women have performed, and continue to perform, in cultural continuity and community development. It illustrates the challenges and successes they have had in the areas of law, politics, education, community healing, language, and art, while suggesting significant options for sustained improvement of individual, family, and community well-being. Written by fifteen Aboriginal scholars, activists, and community leaders, Restoring the Balance combines life histories and biographical accounts with historical and critical analyses grounded in traditional thought and approaches. It is a powerful and important book.

The diagnosis and treatment of the patient with critically impaired walking abilities present the busy physician with a formidable challenge. This book provides a comprehensive account of the various balance, posture and gait disorders, and of the methods for Their effective Read More ...management. The text is divided into five sections dealing wi

This new edition of a best-selling guide incorporates significant advances in the early and later rehabilitation of neurologically impaired patients. Based on the Bobath concept, Davies' approach to rehabilitation stresses the need to equip the patient for a full life, rather than setting arbitrary goals for functioning in a sheltered environment. Activities are described for correcting abnormal movement patterns and facial difficulties. Ways to regain walking, balance and other normal movement sequences are explained and demonstrated with 750 photographs of patients being treated.

Regain Your Balance: At Work, with Family, in Life— Identifying Your Goals and Ordering Your Priorities answers the challenge of finding, preserving, and enhancing a healthy and sustainable balance between one’s work and one’s personal life with the field-tested insights of a consulting psychologist and executive coach. Mark Sirkin, PhD, distilling the results of three decades of interactions with people in diverse circumstances and stages in their careers, presents them in this guide. Regain Your Balance: At Work, with Family, in Life makes approachable the task of connecting this guide to one’s own particular circumstances. The work’s conversational presentation encourages the goal of balance, discusses the nature of a healthy work-family equilibrium, outlines the steps for creating a plan, encourages putting the plan to work, and suggests methods for assuring that one’s efforts are sustainable and bear fruit. Are you looking at yourself in the mirror and wondering how you came to be where you are? Do you sense that the dynamic balance between your labor and your leisure is out of whack? Would you find yourself in Dr. Sirkin’s observation, “Today, all generations, in all types of jobs are looking for balance, less stress, and more time with family and friends. Like you, these people are willing to give it their all when they are at work. They expect to work hard, but in exchange, they want a life”? If you do, then Regain Your Balance: At Work, with Family, in Life is the book for you.

For Silvia Casabianca most of our remedies for discomfort and disease are at odds with the body's natural responses to various types of invasion or imbalance. In her view, much of what is labeled conventional medicine overlooks and often hampers the necessary and natural communication between organs and the flow of vital energy that maintains health. The first section of the book, "The New Perspectives," surveys holistic approaches to well-being. The second section, "The Body Wisdom," explores the various bodily systems and illustrates their functions and interrelationships. She elaborates the concept of an "inner healer," which is the key to physical and psychic well-being. Finally, in the third section, Casabianca, a Reiki Master, introduces readers to "Reiki and the Art of Healing," sharing with the reader her fascination for the multidimensional human body, and current knowledge about health and illness gained through being a physician, a psychotherapist and a Reiki teacher.

Rehabilitation Techniques for Sports Medicine and Athletic Training, Seventh Edition is the definitive reference for athletic training students and professionals who are interested in gaining more in-depth exposure to the theory and practical application of rehabilitation techniques used in a sports medicine environment. Dr. William Prentice and his contributors have combined their knowledge and expertise to produce a single text that encompasses all aspects of sports medicine rehabilitation. Featuring more than 1,000 full-color illustrations, 700 high-resolution videos, and an integrated laboratory manual, this newly updated Seventh Edition provides the athletic trainer with a complete guide to the design, implementation, and supervision of rehabilitation programs for sport-related injuries. The Seventh Edition includes new and updated information on topics including: • Pharmacology and the role of medication in pain management and performance • Nutrition and its impact on rehabilitation • Rehabilitation techniques for the core • Roles within the rehabilitation team • Pathomechanics and epidemiology of common injuries • Psychological considerations and communication with injured patients • Tips for documentation from Dr. Prentice Included with the text are online supplemental materials for faculty use in the classroom. Rehabilitation Techniques for Sports Medicine and Athletic Training, Seventh Editionis a comprehensive resource for athletic training students, faculty, and clinicians; physical therapists who manage rehabilitation programs for sports-related injuries; as well as for strength and conditioning coaches who supervise performance enhancement programs on return to play.

This is a comprehensive book on physiotherapy for adult neurological disorders with chapters describing physiotherapy assessment and management for those adult patients in the acute care and rehabilitation units of hospitals or centers. Each chapter additionally provides brief introduction, historical background, etiology, pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, medical and surgical management. The aim is to help build a theoretical foundation on which principles of management are laid, and to improve and update the readers' clinical and therapeutic skills. Improving the overall care and management of patients suffering from adult neurological conditions such as stroke, Parkinson's disease, traumatic brain injury, and multiple sclerosis, is the key objective. Supported with ample practical contents (exercise training and therapeutic strategies) and pictures it prepares the readers to effectively manage patients with neurological conditions. The contents of this book will serve as a guide and source of knowledge of both contemporary and advanced treatment techniques for undergraduate and post-graduate students and therapists practicing worldwide in adult neurological physiotherapy.