Reference text for athletic trainers, physical therapists, massage therapists, and chiropractors. Textbook for students enrolled in upper-level courses in athletic training, physical therapy, and massage therapy programs.
Table of Contents:
Part I. Foundational Applications and Procedures
Chapter 1: Introduction to Positional Release Therapy
Strain Counterstrain
Tissue Assessment and Documentation
Strain Counterstrain Versus Positional Release Therapy
Positional Release Therapy Guidelines
Summary
Chapter 2: Positional Release Therapy Research and Theory
Neurophysiological Foundations
Somatic Dysfunction and the Osteopathic Lesion
Clinical Implications
Summary
Chapter 3: Special Populations
Youth and Elderly Patients
Mastectomy Patients
Competitive Athletes
Pregnant Patients
Populations With Disabilities and Disease
Summary
Part II. PRT Techniques by Anatomical Area
Chapter 4: Foot
Dorsal Structures
Plantar Structures
Common Injury Conditions
Summary
Chapter 5: Ankle and Lower Leg
Anterior Structures
Medial Structures
Posterior Structures
Lateral Structures
Common Injury Conditions
Summary
Chapter 6: Knee and Thigh
Anterior Structures
Medial Structures
Posterior Structures
Lateral Structures
Common Injury Conditions
Summary
Chapter 7: Pelvis
Anterior Structures
Posterior Structures
Common Injury Conditions
Summary
Chapter 8: Spine
Anterior Structures
Posterior Structures
Common Injury Conditions
Summary
Chapter 9: Shoulder
Anterior Structures
Posterior Structures
Common Injury Condition Summary
Summary
Chapter 10: Elbow and Forearm
Anterior Structures
Medial Structures
Posterior Structures
Lateral Structures
Common Injury Conditions
Summary
Chapter 11: Wrist and Hand
Anterior Structures
Posterior Structures
Common Injury Conditions
Summary
Chapter 12: Cranium
Regis Turocy, MSPT, DCHE, PRT-c
Osseous Structures
Muscular Structures
Common Injury Conditions
Summary
About the Author :
Timothy E. Speicher, PhD, ATC, LAT, CSCS, is president of the Positional Release Therapy Institute. He is considered a leading expert in positional release therapy (PRT). Speicher discovered and developed the fasciculatory response method (FRM), which has revolutionized the way PRT is applied, practiced, and taught. He established the Positional Release Therapy Institute to provide education on the FRM and PRT through the institute's courses while allowing for its application to a patient population at the institute in Ogden, Utah.
Speicher frequently speaks on PRT to professional organizations and at conferences, and his research has been published in academic journals. In 2014 he received the first-place award for outstanding manuscript on evidence-based concept mapping by the Athletic Training Education Journal, published by the National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA). In 2013 he won the journal's first-place award for outstanding manuscript on case-based analogical reasoning.
Speicher, who has held several faculty and research appointments at various academic institutions, is a member of the NATA and was on the board of directors of NATA Research & Education Foundation. Currently, Speicher holds two faculty appointments: affiliate faculty for the University of Idaho, where he teaches neuroscience for the master's degree in athletic training program, and assistant professor at Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions, where he provides instruction in evidence-based medicine for the doctorate in health science.
