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Barry Krost - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Practitioner, instructor and author, Barry Krost has spent the last 26 years learning about health and healing. Originally intending to become a Medical Anthropologist and study healers, he became one himself and has never looked back.
His career has gone through a number of evolutions and he continues to study and learn. Barry’s greatest insights have occurred during sessions with clients where the innate wisdom of the body becomes the teacher.
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- A Natural Approach to Healing
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] In the medical model practiced by doctors, health is a matter of alleviating symptoms. Alternative approaches have their limits as do all health systems but the focus on balance lessens unexpected side effects.
- History of Zone Therapy and Reflexology
[Health-and-Fitness:Healing-Arts] The Zone Theory was the precursor to modern Reflexology, which began with Dr. William H. Fitzgerald, M.D in 1913. Dr. Fitzgerald, an American ear, nose and throat surgeon, noted that pressure on specific parts of the body could have an anaesthetizing effect on a related area. He called his work Zone Therapy.
- Positional Release is Effective Therapy
[Health-and-Fitness:Massage] Positional Release is a highly effective technique that helps reduce pain and restore function to muscles, bones, and joints. Positional Release began in the 1950's with the work of Lawrence Hugh Jones, DO.
- How the Psoas Muscle Causes Back and Hip Pain
[Health-and-Fitness:Back-Pain] The biggest factor in back and hip pain is the psoas muscle. The number of problems caused by the psoas is quite astonishing. These include: low back pain, sacroiliac pain, sciatica, disc problems, spondylolysis, scoliosis, hip degeneration, knee pain, menstruation pain, infertility, and digestive problems.
- Using Professional Associations to Find a Massage Therapist
[Health-and-Fitness:Massage] Choosing a massage therapist can be challenging. Knowing their professional affiliation can be of great help in making your choice. There are a number of professional organizations that promote high standards for massage therapy.
- Sylvester Graham and Diet Reform In The 19th Century
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] The connection of appropriate food, sound health, moral development and self-control has a tradition going back to the early 19th century. Sylvester Graham, who began lecturing on health in the 1830's, presented America with a complete ideological system governing every aspect of "personal routine."
- The Trickster As An Ancient Method of Health
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Humanities] At the dawn of culture the trickster was the chief character of the paleolithic story. In his guise as fool he was an epitome of the principal of disorder, but he was also the chaotic force that brought forth, directly or indirectly, new solutions to a threatening world. He was "a lawless element, full of surprises."
- A Brief Introduction to Chapman's Reflexes
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Chapman's Reflexes are a series of points that can help stimulate normal function in the lymphatic and endocrine systems. Most of these points are located on the front of the body between the ribs next to the sternum and on the back along the spine between the spinous processes and the tips of the transverse processes.
- History of Osteopathy
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] In second half of the 19th century Andrew Taylor Stills, D.O. (1828-1917) evolved from a conventional physician to become founder of a new kind of healing modality that initially challenged orthodox medicine. During his life he was influenced by: homeopathy, magnetic healing, bone setting, and various popular health movements.
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