Resources and Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Epley Maneuver:

The Epley maneuver is a series of head movements performed by the physical therapist to improve and relieve symptoms of benign positional vertigo. Benign positional vertigo is also called benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV). BPPV is caused by a problem in the inner ear. Vertigo is the feeling that you are spinning or that everything is spinning around you.

Home exercise Program (HEP):

An HEP is a set of physical exercises curated by a PT, OT, or SLP to help a therapy patient maintain or improve upon their functional movement goals. HEPs are typically assigned in conjunction with an active PT, OT, or SLP plan of care (POC), and are unique to each and every patient. This is because the treating therapist selects exercises that target individual patients’ movement or therapeutic goals in a way that keeps their current and highest potential strength in mind.

Manual Therapy: 

Manual therapy is the use of her hands to assess and localize the lesion to a joint, ligament, nerve, and/or muscle(s).  Treatment techniques include joint mobilization, soft tissue mobilization, myofascial release, and therapeutic massage techniques to reduce pain, restore joint motion, and improve flexibility and motility of nerves and muscles.

Neuromuscular re-education:

Consists of training (or re-training) your muscles, your brain, and the nerves used for them to communicate with each other to improve movement, strength, balance and function.

Re-education represents a series of therapeutic techniques to restore normal function of nerves and muscles, to include movement, balance, coordination, decreased kinesthetic sense, and impaired proprioception.

Tensegrity: 

Tensegrity, tensional integrity or floating compression is a structural principle based on a system of isolated components under compression inside a network of continuous tension, and arranged in such a way that the compressed members (usually bars or struts) do not touch each other while the prestressed tensioned members (usually cables or tendons) delineate the system spatially.

This is further explained by Tom Myers- see below

Therapeutic exercise: 

In the simplest terms, therapeutic exercise involves movement prescribed to correct impairments, restore muscular and skeletal function and/or maintain a state of well-being. 

Resources

Anthony P. Arnold, Rhythm and Touch: The Fundamentals of Craniosacral Therapy

Hugh Milnes, The Heart of Listening: A Visionary Approach to Craniosacral Work

John Upledger, D.O., Your Inner Physician and You

Tom W Myers, Anatomy Trains.com