The Concise Book Of Neuromuscular Therapy

John Sharkey, BSc, MSc, NMT, is an exercise physiologist and neuromuscular therapist. He is the principal and director of the National Training Center, an organization responsible for the educational training and development of Neuromuscular Therapy and Medical Exercise. Based in Dublin, the NTC has branches throughout Ireland. At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, Sharkey became the first NMT therapist to participate as a fully accredited Olympic medical team member.Foreword writer David G. Simons, MD, is a research scientist with several decades of experience in the study and treatment of myofascial pain. With Janet G. Travell, MD, he authored the seminal book Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction: The Trigger Point Manual in 1983. Now in his eighties, Simons is a volunteer clinical professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Emory University and is a member of the medical staff of Dekalb Medical Center in Decatur, Georgia.