Palpation and Assessment in Manual Therapy
eBook - ePub

Palpation and Assessment in Manual Therapy

Learning the art and refining your skills

  1. 342 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Palpation and Assessment in Manual Therapy

Learning the art and refining your skills

About this book

As the title suggests this book has been written to assist manual therapists to understand and hone the palpatory skills which are essential to their effectiveness as practitioners. Skilful palpation is the foundation stone of all effective manual therapy assessments and treatments. The ability to use subtle and sensitive touch to examine and assess patients is essential for an accurate interpretation of the underlying problems of fascial and muscle function. The accurate interpretation of palpatory findings is difficult and comes with experience. This book aims to increase awareness of how to palpate and understanding of what is being felt.

In this fourth edition of his now well-established and much loved book Leon Chaitow has introduced references to the latest research findings relating to fascia and its role in health and disease, so that practitioners can apply this knowledge in interpreting what they palpate. In addition to the author, six notable contributors from Europe and North America enhance the work's range and authority.

All manual therapists, whatever their professional background, will benefit from the wealth of experience- and research-based information presented in this book.

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Information

Publisher
Handspring Publishing
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781909141346
eBook ISBN
9781912085156
Edition
4
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Alternative & Complementary Medicine

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Contributors
  5. Foreword
  6. Preface
  7. Chapter 1: Objective: palpatory literacy
  8. Chapter 2: Palpation reliability and validity
  9. Special topic 1: Using appropriate pressure (and the myofascial pain index)
  10. Special topic 2: Structure and function: are they inseparable?
  11. Chapter 3: Fundamentals of palpation
  12. Special topic 3: Visual assessment, the dominant eye, and other issues
  13. Chapter 4: Palpating and assessing the skin
  14. Special topic 4: Source of pain: is it reflex or local?
  15. Special topic 5: The morphology of reflex and acupuncture points
  16. Special topic 6: Is it a muscle or a joint problem?
  17. Chapter 5: Palpating for changes in muscle structure
  18. Chapter 6: Fascial palpation
  19. Chapter 7: Assessment of ā€œabnormal mechanical tensionā€ in the nervous system
  20. Special topic 7: Red, white and black reaction
  21. Special topic 8: Percussion palpation and treatment
  22. Special topic 9: Joint play/ā€œend-feelā€/ range of motion: what are they?
  23. Chapter 8: Palpation and assessment of joints (including spine and pelvis)
  24. Chapter 9: Accurately identifying musculoskeletal dysfunction
  25. Chapter 10: Evaluating movement
  26. Special topic 10: Fibromyalgia palpation assessment
  27. Chapter 11: Palpating for functional ā€œeaseā€
  28. Special topic 11: About hyperventilation
  29. Chapter 12: Visceral palpation and respiratory function assessment
  30. Special topic 12: Synesthesia
  31. Chapter 13: Understanding and using intuitive faculties
  32. Special topic 13: Palpating the traditional Chinese pulses
  33. Chapter 14: Subtle palpation
  34. Chapter 15: Palpation and emotional states
  35. Appendix: Location of Chapmanā€™s neurolymphatic reflexes
  36. Index