Medical Therapeutic Yoga

by Ginger Garner

Overview

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 rehabilitative 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. This book will be invaluable for health care professionals, yoga therapists, and yoga teachers, including but not limited to: * physical therapy and manual therapy * chiropractic * osteopathy and orthopaedics * physical and rehabilitative medicine * occupational therapy * athletic training * massage therapy

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781909141131
Publisher:	Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Publication date:	10/03/2016
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.69(h) x 1.02(d)

About the Author

Ginger is an integrative physical therapist (PT), athletic trainer (ATC), educator, and founder of Professional Yoga Therapy Studies. She earned her Master of Physical Therapy (MPT) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, completing studies in the School of Medicine and School of Public Health. Ms. Garner began work in the field of integrative therapies in 1995, after becoming licensed in sports medicine. She developed Medical Therapeutic Yoga (MTY) as a postgraduate, interdisciplinary certification over a 20 year span, and has been teaching the curriculum for over 10 years. Ginger is a pro bono consultant with universities in Pennsylvania, Mississippi, and Canada, where MTY is being used as part of the master's and doctoral physical therapy curriculum. The program, which provides educational competencies for using yoga in interdisciplinary medical fields, is a first of its kind in the US. Ginger's clinical specialties include public health education, orthopaedics, pain management, and maternal health. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ginger considers her most important work to be patient advocacy, where through multimedia platforms she works to increase awareness of, and eliminate barriers to, receiving holistic and integrative health care. Ginger can be contacted at www.gingergarner.com and www.professionalyogatherapy.org.

Table of Contents

Dedication vi

Reviews vii

Foreword viii

Preface x

Acknowledgements xiii

Information on instructional videos xiv

1 Precepts for integration of yoga and rehabilitation 1

2 The biopsychosocial model for yoga in healthcare 13

3 Neurophysiological foundations for evidence in practice: historical and contemporary support 29

4 Respiratory assessment and special testing 75

5 Functional movement assessment algorithm 105

6 Standing postures 151

7 Seated postures 189

8 Supine postures 223

9 Prone postures 255

10 Semi-inversions 277

11 Applied Medical Therapeutic Yoga 295

12 Considerations for medical providers and yoga professionals 313

Glossary 333

References 335

Index 369

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Alane G Lucht, D.C., M.A.(Northwestern Health Sciences University)
Description: This well laid out book details the hows and whys of yoga for rehabilitation of a multitude of issues. This book integrates what yoga practitioners have known for years with the science of why yoga works.
Purpose: The purpose is to explore and explain the ancient science and art of yoga: how and why it helps with so many ailments that allopathic medicine has struggled to deal with successfully. This is a much needed addition to the literature on healthcare alternatives. The book exceeds the objectives.
Audience: The target audience includes those in the fields of medicine and yoga who have knowledge of basic anatomy and physiology. However, the book is not written in a manner that someone desiring more information couldn't understand.
Features: The book addresses the basics of integrating yoga and physical rehabilitation. It covers in depth the neurophysiological foundation of why these disciplines work so well together. The majority of the book is a breakdown of yogic breathing exercises and physical postures. I appreciate the details of the myofascial connection of breath-work and posture and how they are both integral to the overall health of not only the physical body, but also of the mental and emotional bodies. The pictures are all in gray-scale, but of such wonderful quality that no important details are missed. The book includes a section on coding for reimbursement through health insurance.
Assessment: I am unaware of any other book that provides so much detail on this subject. The author has clearly done her research and spent time practicing the art of yoga and physical rehabilitation. This is a useful and needed book. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.

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