Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Orthopedics, Chiropractic, Family & General Practice, Diagnosis
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Overview
"This text represents a monumental effort and should be on the shelf of every chiropractor."——Dynamic Chiropractic"...This book is useful as a learning tool for students and as an update for experienced therapists who are working clinically with geriatric or orthopaedic clientele."——JOSPT (30:3)
This new edition of a very successful book includes chapters written by experts in the methods of manual treatment and provides step—by—step instructions on how to examine your patient using a logical sequence of passive, contractile, and special tests, and how to relate findings to biomechanical problems and lesions. Included are hundreds of diagrams, photographs, illustrations, and summary charts. In this new edition, chapters from the first edition have been thoroughly revised and updated and new material has been added on Myofascial Release, Somatics, Post—Facilitation Stretch, Friction massage, Hypo and Hyperpronation of the Foot, Strain and Counter Strain and Gait, the Extremities and the Spine.
The book contains black-and-white illustrations.
Editorials
From The Critics
Reviewer: Dana J Lawrence, DC, MMedEd, MA(Palmer College of Chiropractic)Description: In this second edition of this honored text, originally published in 1991, the editor adds new information on the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of soft tissue injuries and conditions.
Purpose: The editor provides in-depth information about how soft tissue injuries can be diagnosed using manual procedures. The emphasis is upon palpatory procedures that examine movement in each region of the body. In addition, there are specific chapters in which contributors discuss a variety of different manual approaches to therapy.
Audience: This book will appeal to anyone involved in examining the spine and extremities, so there will be interest from chiropractors, osteopaths, physical therapists, manual medicine practitioners, and students from each discipline.
Features: There are two major sections to this book. In the first a regional approach to soft tissue assessment is provided, with a different area of the body covered in each chapter. Each contributor gives information about basic and functional anatomy, functional examination, and the kinds of problems that can occur in that area. In the second section contributors discuss therapy, with each chapter given over to a discussion of a specific approach to soft tissue management. For example, chapters here include joint mobilization, somatic technique, strain/counterstrain, etc.
Assessment: This is a very fine update to the first edition of this venerated text. The editor takes advantage of a great deal of new scientific literature that has been published in the intervening years, and he greatly expands the coverage from the original edition. The approach used here is a prudent yet comprehensive one, and one that practitioners involved in managing joint injury will find effective.
Dana J. Lawrence
In this second edition of this honored text, originally published in 1991, the editor adds new information on the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of soft tissue injuries and conditions. The editor provides in-depth information about how soft tissue injuries can be diagnosed using manual procedures. The emphasis is upon palpatory procedures that examine movement in each region of the body. In addition, there are specific chapters in which contributors discuss a variety of different manual approaches to therapy. This book will appeal to anyone involved in examining the spine and extremities, so there will be interest from chiropractors, osteopaths, physical therapists, manual medicine practitioners, and students from each discipline. There are two major sections to this book. In the first a regional approach to soft tissue assessment is provided, with a different area of the body covered in each chapter. Each contributor gives information about basic and functional anatomy, functional examination, and the kinds of problems that can occur in that area. In the second section contributors discuss therapy, with each chapter given over to a discussion of a specific approach to soft tissue management. For example, chapters here include joint mobilization, somatic technique, strain/counterstrain, etc. This is a very fine update to the first edition of this venerated text. The editor takes advantage of a great deal of new scientific literature that has been published in the intervening years, and he greatly expands the coverage from the original edition. The approach used here is a prudent yet comprehensive one, and one that practitioners involved in managing joint injury will findeffective.5 Stars! from Doody
Book Details
Published
January 27, 1999
Publisher
Gaithersburg, Md. : Aspen Publishers, 1999.
Pages
625
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780834206304