Bøger i Louis Gifford Aches and Pains serien

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.Sections 1-9 discuss; the dorsal horn, memory biology, placebo, stress, nociceptive pain mechanisms, the sympathetic nervous system, healing and adaptation.Section 10 describes how Louis developed The Mature Organism Model ( MOM) which is now used worldwide to teach physiotherapists about input/output mechanisms and processing changes.Book one is an expansion of the first half of Louis' 2 day lecture programme The Clinical Biology of Aches and Pains. A course Louis first taught in Adelaide in 1993 and continued to teach until he had to stop lecturing in 2007.

Book 2 is divided into two. The first half completes the remaining topics Louis taught in his The Clinical Biology and Aches and Pains course. Topics include the brain, the Mature organism Model and the brain. Stress and chronic stress are discussed and related to the patient in front of the clinician.The Nerve Root course was first taught in 2000. Topics covered are peripheral nerve mechanisms, nerve and nerve root pain. 'Discs' are given a whole section and findings are again interpreted with the patient foremost.

'Graded Exposure' was a course developed by Louis to help physiotherapists to integrate theory into practise. Topics include; the biomedical model; evolutionary reasoning; the vulnerable organism model; fear avoidance model; model of disability and the biopsychosocial model. Section 4 is the 'shopping basket approach' essentially giving therapists a system and method to assess and manage patients well. Louis uses 4 questions, What's wrong? How long? What can I do? and What can you do? These need to be answered with every patient every time.Finally, four sections of Case Histories. Patient stories to help put theory into practise.