The Swiss Ball: theory, basic exercises and clinical application

Beate Carriere: The Swiss Ball: theory, basic exercises and clinical application. - A 385 page volume with 355 illustrations. - Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 1998.

The Swiss Ball can be a useful tool to motivate patients and healthy subjects and to make exercising easier for them and for the physical therapists. This is very important at a time when efficiency of treatment and patients' self-motivation and cooperation is required in order to achieve progress.

The book gives a clear and in-depth elucidation of the theory, basic exercises and clinical applications of the technique. The volume consists...