Books I Am Reading
It seems like everyone is blogging about the books they are currently reading. I’m sure this has something to do with the fact that the holiday’s are now over and people are getting around to making some purchases with their gift cards.
Anyway, I am a fan of reading, so I figured I’d throw my current reading list into the mix.
The first three are some cool books about the brain and how it controls the way we function, both physically and mentally. These books cover a variety of topics such as:
- Pain
- Our mind/body maps
- Neurological disorders
- Obsessive compulsive disorders
1) The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph From the Frontiers of Brain Science by Norman Doidge
2) The Body Has A Mind of Its Own: How Body Maps in Your Brain Help You Do (Almost) Anything Better by Sandra and Mathew Blakeslee
3) The Mind and The Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force by Jeffrey Schwartz and Sharon Begley
This next book is one that I stumbled upon a few months ago and finally got around to picking it up. It is a book that goes over concepts of reading and interpreting research, and how to apply our findings to the real world.
4) How To Read A Paper: The Basics of Evidence Based Medicine by Trisha Greenhalgh
The final two are books that I have been meaning to pick up for some time now. They are filled with great information and I was really excited when I finally got them in the mail! The first one has some excellent guest chapters authored by Stuart McGill, Aaron Mattes, and Dr. Leahy (the developer of ART). The second is all about the nervous system and neurodynamics.
5) Functional Soft Tissue Evaluation and Treatment by Manual Methods by Warren Hammer
6) Clinical Neurodynamics: A New System of Neuromusculoskeletal Treatment by Michael Shacklock
Knowledge is power! The goal is to get better at what you do everyday. What are you currently reading?
Patrick
patrick@optimumsportsperformance.com
6 comments
I’m currently reading your blog! No shortage of info here!
Make sure you let me know which ones I need to read myself (although I already have Hammer’s text)
Your list intimidates and frightens me!
Bret, it intimidates me too! haha
Thanks for the kind words, Doc. I’d pick up the Clinical Neurodynamics book if I were you. I think you will get a lot out of it.
Patrick
Good stuff man!
The Clinical Neurodynamics its a great book, but it is really not that complicated as it seems there.
Find the path the nerve takes, put it under SLIGHT tension, add a mobility drill WHILE keeping that orientation. Eval before and after.
The body has a mind of its own–great book! I have The Brain that Changes Itself, but need to read it yet.
Also got the 6th ed. of SuperTraining from my sister for Xmas and a copy o Boyle’s Functional Training book too.
I am excited to hear what you learn!
Rock on
Mike T Nelson PhD(c)
I finished Daniel Coyle’s “The Talent Code” a few weeks back and highly recommend it.
Hey Dan, I hear that was a really great book. I’ll have to check it out sometime!
Mike,
I hear what you are saying about the neurodynamics. The thing I find is that there are a lot of sublties to performing the movements correctly. A lot of people do what they think is neurodyanmics, but they don’t have the clients body positioned correctly, or they don’t do things in the proper order, leading to less than desireable results or (at worst) irritation of the nerve. In some studies that I have seen on neurodynamics, this is actually one of the ways they perform the tests: the experimental group gets the correct technique, with special attention paid to how things move. While the control group gets “sham” neurodynamics, where the technique is performed with imperfections.
So, I think from the standpoint of getting all the sublte variables down, the book is important.
I have not seen the new Supertraining yet. I have an older addition and it is still one of my favorite training books of all time.
Patrick
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