Manual Healing: Internet Resources: Alternative Medicine

• The Alexander Technique does not treat specific symptoms, but can encourage a marked improvement in overall health, alertness, and performance by consciously eliminating harmful habits that cause physical and emotional stress, and by becoming more aware of how you engage in your activities.
• Alexander Technique The Complete Guide To The Alexander Technique by Robert Rickover
• Alexander Technique International: world-wide organization of Alexander teachers, students and supporters
• American Chiropractic Association
• American Massage Therapy Association
• American Reflexology Certification Board: "protect the public and promote the advancement of the field through the recognition of competent reflexologists who practice on a professional basis and chose to be recognized as meeting basic national standards
• American Society for the Alexander Technique, Florence, Massachussetts: offers certification for teachers
• Chiropractic Online Today: chiropractic links and submission from around the globe.
• The Chiropractic Resource Organization "a not-for-profit site organized and maintained by chiropractic volunteers"
• ChiroWeb.com: chiropractic resources on the Internet
• Feldenkrais® Guild Home page: a form of somatic education using gentle movement and directed attention to improve movement and enhance human functioning. Increasing ease and range of motion, flexibility and coordination, and rediscovering your innate capacity for graceful, efficient movement. These improvements will often generalize to enhance functioning in other aspects of your life.
• Hospital-Based Massage Network (HBMN): "contribute to the integration of complementary health care into mainstream medicine via directly supporting the massage and touch therapists"
• Index to Chiropractic Literature: bibliographic citations produced by "the Chiropractic Library Consortium (CLIBCON: a group of health science librarians working in chiropractic colleges throughout the world whose goal is to improve access to the chiropractic literature"
• International Chiropractic Pediatric Association: "dedicated to advancing awareness of the chiropractic family wellness lifestyle. Through education, training and research in the care of children & pregnant women"
• International Chiropractics Association
• Manga II: Enhanced chiropractic coverage under OHIP as a means of reducing health care costs, attaining better health outcomes and achieving equitable access to health services, Pran Manga, Ph.D. and Doug Angus, University of Ottawa
• Pennsylvania Chiropractic Association
• Pfrimmer Deep Muscle Therapy common condition helped by technique, faqs, history and locating a therapist
• Reflexology Research: mission of finding a legitimate role for reflexology in our health care system
• The Rolf Institute of Structural Integration, manipulating the body's myofascial system
• Therapeutic Touch Is it Valid? by Eric Krieg
• Touch For Health Kinesiology Association: "to serve the needs of TFH Instructors and Practitioners in the United States, and to promote TFH as a system of complementary health care"
• Tragger Institute, negative thoughts cause muscle tension... employs a variety of natural movements to promote mental clarity, relaxation, physical mobility and to ease tension

Revision: June 2006.

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