Basic Clinical Massage Therapy

Basic Clinical Massage Therapy: Integrating Anatomy and Treatment
By James H Clay, David M Pounds

This superbly illustrated text familiarizes students with individual muscles and muscle systems and demonstrates basic clinical massage therapy techniques. More than 550 full-color illustrations of internal structures are embedded into photographs of live models to show each muscle or muscle group, surrounding structures, surface landmarks, and the therapist’s hands. Students see clearly which muscle is being worked, where it is, where it is attached, how it can be accessed manually, what problems it can cause, and how treatment techniques are performed. This edition features improved illustrations of draping and includes palpation for each muscle.

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Neoconstructivism

Scott Johnson “Neoconstructivism: The New Science of Cognitive Development”

Arguments over the developmental origins of human knowledge are ancient, founded in the writings of Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, and Kant. They have also persisted long enough to become a core area of inquiry in cognitive and developmental science. Empirical contributions to these debates, however, appeared only in the last century, when Jean Piaget offered the first viable theory of knowledge acquisition that centered on the great themes discussed by Kant: object, space, time, and causality. The essence of Piaget’s theory is constructivism: The building of concepts from simpler perceptual and cognitive precursors, in particular from experience gained through manual behaviors and observation.
The constructivist view was disputed by a generation of researchers dedicated to the idea of the “competent infant,” endowed with knowledge (say, of permanent objects) that emerged prior to facile manual behaviors. Taking this possibility further, it has been proposed that many fundamental cognitive mechanisms — reasoning, event prediction, decision-making, hypothesis testing, and deduction — operate independently of all experience, and are, in this sense, innate. The competent-infant view has an intuitive appeal, attested to by its widespread popularity, and it enjoys a kind of parsimony: It avoids the supposed philosophical pitfall posed by having to account for novel forms of knowledge in inductive learners. But this view leaves unaddressed a vital challenge: to understand the mechanisms by which new knowledge arises. [more]

BASIC CONCEPTS OF AYURVEDIC PHARMACOLOGY

The subject of usage of herbs and herbo-mineral drugs is as old as disease. Illness has been human beings heritage from the beginning of the existence of life and the search for remedies to combat it is perhaps is equally old.

A review about the scientific implications of these principles (Rasapanchaka) of drug action is mandatory to understand the rationality of modus operandi of Ayurvedic drugs.

An attempt to evaluate the attributed Karmas at biological level either in animal or by human experiments may provide scientificity to the concept of Virya.

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Latest Panchkarma Instruments

A group of Vaidyas practicing traditional Ayurveda and also engages in designing and developing some innovative Panchkarma Instruments and accessories. We also do research and academic activities.  We after facing different problems during practicing panchkarma have developed the full range of following Panchkarma Instruments. All above instruments are very innovative, user friendly, semi automated, more hygienic, sterilized (some of them) and extremely elegant and convenient in look and performance. These have been unanimous exclamations of our esteemed clients domestic and overseas as well.

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Rasashastra ROTP at Vijayawada

Rasashastra ROTP at Nori Ramashastry Govt. Ayurveda College, Vijayawada organized between December 14 to 19th 2009. Various Resource persons delivered their lectures -

• click to view/ save Excellence of Rasaaushadhi In Ayurveda Practice – part 1 by Dr.KSR Prasad
• click to view/ save REVIEW OF RASA KALPAS – P.H.C MURTHY
• Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms – Tablets – Dr.V.Nagalakshm, IIMMIISS Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd, Vijayawada
• click to view/ save Excellence of Rasaaushadhi In Ayurveda Practice – part 2 by Dr.KSR Prasad
• click to view/ save Rasaaushadhi In Geriatric / Aphrodisiac Practice by Dr.KSR Prasad
• click to view/ save Rasa – The Mercury – Physico-Chemical Characteristics of Mercury -P.H.C MURTHY

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