Self Treatment for Back, Neck and Limbs: The Mulligan Concept Approach, Revised 4th Edition

This newly revised fourth edition of Brian Mulligan’s self-help guide (The Mulligan Concept Approach) helps people relieve back pain, neck pain and pain in the extremities through exercise and specialized techniques.

Persistent pain is a global problem affecting millions of people worldwide. Physical therapists are in the ideal position to help assess and treat people experiencing pain, especially persistent pain, and this book shows how.

This self-help guide is designed to help the patient gain exercise independence by learning concepts and techniques including posture, self-snag exercises and the pain-release phenomenon.

The newly revised fourth edition of Self Treatment for Back, Neck and Limbs: The Mulligan Concept Approach includes all new photographs, as well as updated information from the latest research on safe lifting and posture, acute injury management and red flags, self-care advice in tendon injury management, and new self-treatment mobilisations with movement for the hip and lumbar spine.

Written by Jillian McDowell, MPNZ, Dip. Phys., Reg. Physio Acup., Post Grad. Cert. Sports Med., Dip. MT, Cred. M.D.T., MPhty, MCTA; Thomas Mitchell, BSc, MSc, mCSP, MCTA, mBAHT, FCP; and Brian Mulligan, FNZSP (Hon), Dip. MT. Softcover. Photo-illustrated. 4th ed.