Clinical Guide to Positional Release Therapy With Web Resource

Description

This new resource will provide professionals in the sports medicine and therapy fields with an invaluable reference on the clinical application of Positional Release Therapy (PRT). The book is a resource for all those who wish to learn, practice and perfect the art of PRT in order to gently treat patients of all ages who have acute and chronic somatic dysfunction, including tightness and pain. It dedicates considerable attention to palpation instruction, 3 core skill that enables successful diagnoses and applications of many orthopedic assessments and therapeutic techniques. Readers also will gain knowledge of anatomical and kinesiological structures to ensure success in assessment. The text is supplemented by a web resource featuring 59 videos demonstrating various PRT techniques described in the book.

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.