Louis Gifford Aches and Pains Book One

<p>Louis starts his physiotherapy story in the 1970s. The first 3 sections describe who and what were influencing manual therapy in the 1980s. Louis questions the lack of pain discussion and understanding.</p><p>Sections 1-9 discuss; the dorsal horn memory biology placebo stress nociceptive pain mechanisms the sympathetic nervous system healing and adaptation.</p><p>Section 10 describes how Louis developed<strong> The Mature Organism Model</strong> <strong>( MOM)</strong> which is now used worldwide to teach physiotherapists about input/output mechanisms and processing changes.</p><p>Book one is an expansion of the first half of Louis' 2 day lecture programme <strong>The Clinical Biology of Aches and Pains</strong>. A course Louis first taught in Adelaide in 1993 and continued to teach until he had to stop lecturing in 2007.</p>