This website covers everything related to Dr Chris McCarthy’s Combined Movement Theory concept. Providing information about the concept, access to the books, courses and DVDs and also highlighting other related manual therapy resources, this website is a key resource for any neuromusculoskeletal practitioner.
What is Combined Movement Theory
Combined Movement Theory is the development of Dr Brian Edward’s “Combined Movements” to rationally incorporate Spinal Manipulation Techniques, Muscle Energy Techniques and new methods of Mobilisation. The concept promotes rational Manual Therapy for Spinal Dysfunction.
To move is to change place, position or posture. Thus, the positions at the initiation and cessation of movement are integral to the analysis of movement. Combined Movement Theory (CMT) offers the investigator a framework to examine the influence of starting and finishing positions on movement impairment and use these positions to intervene therapeutically.
Dr Chris McCarthy
Dr Chris McCarthy is a Physiotherapist and Spinal Fellow at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, St Mary’s Hospital Paddington, London. After qualifying as a Physiotherapist in 1989 he undertook post-graduate training in Biomechanics and Manipulative therapy at Strathclyde and Coventry Universities before undertaking a PhD degree in rehabilitation within the faculty of Medicine at Manchester University. He was awarded a “Young Investigator of the Year” award in 2001, for his PhD studies, by the British Society of Rheumatologists.
Following Post-doctoral studies, investigating the sub-classification of non-specific low back pain, he became an Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation within the Clinical Trials Unit of the Medical School of Warwick University attracting over a million pound of funding in two years. More recently he has joined Imperial College Healthcare and is a Consultant Physiotherapist at the London Spine Unit www.londonspine.com.
He has taught internationally on Manual Therapy, specifically on Combined Movement Theory, and lectures on six of the Masters courses in Manual Therapy in the UK. He is a member of the international advisory board for Manual Therapy journal and regularly reviews and publishes papers in the academic field of Manual Therapy. He was recently awarded a Fellowship of the MACP for advances in Manual Therapy in 2010 and a Fellowship of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy in 2011.