Louis Gifford Aches and Pains Book One: Aches and Pains Sections 1-14

by Louis Gifford

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.

420 pages, Paperback

Published October 5, 2021

About the author

a physiotherapist and a pioneer on pain science and its management.

Reviews

[Jack Roddis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Essential Physiotherapy reading.

It is slightly startling to see current concepts (heavy emphasis on graded loading for example) explained and emphasised as far back as 2014!

Unbelievably in-depth regarding pain science, perhaps more than you would need to know as a physiotherapist?

But all in all, Gifford is a genius and I will be reading the next 2 instalments.