{"product_id":"physical-treatment-by-movement-manipulation-and-massage","title":"Physical Treatment by Movement, Manipulation and Massage","description":"\u003cp\u003eLondon: J \u0026amp; A Churchill, 1945. 5th ed. Octavo in blue cloth, gilt titles, 512 pp: illustrations; 23 cm Very Good(+), mild rubbing to corners else boards are smooth and clean, binding firm; deckle edge to textblock with some foxing, light soiling to paste-down endpapers, . Hardcover.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUncommon. James Beaver Mennell (c. 1880–1957) was a British physician and pioneer of modern physiotherapy whose works helped formalize manual treatment in medicine. Educated at Cambridge (M.A., M.D.), he served at St Thomas’ Hospital in London as Consulting Physiotherapist and lecturer in massage and movement therapy. This influential text, originally entitled Massage: Its Principles and Practice and Physical Treatment by Movement, Manipulation and Massage (1934)—systematized manipulative and massage techniques for musculoskeletal disorders. He is also remembered for “Mennell’s sign,” a diagnostic test for sacroiliac joint pain, and for bridging the divide between medical and physical-therapy disciplines in the early twentieth century. Mennell’s work, while distinct from chiropracty, profoundly influenced it through shared emphasis on joint mechanics and manual manipulation. As a medically trained physician, he sought to give physical therapy a scientific basis, distinguishing therapeutic manipulation from chiropractic subluxation theories. His studies on joint play and the restoration of normal joint movement anticipated core concepts later integrated into orthopaedic manual therapy and even adopted by some chiropractors seeking evidence-based practice. Thus, Mennell served as a bridge figure—defining manipulative medicine within orthodox medicine while indirectly legitimizing manual approaches that chiropracty also employed. | Chiropracty\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mennell, James B.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008847266050,"sku":"105355","price":67.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0675\/4412\/1602\/files\/105355.jpg?v=1762493768","url":"https:\/\/bibliope.com\/products\/physical-treatment-by-movement-manipulation-and-massage","provider":"Bibliope","version":"1.0","type":"link"}