Palpation and assessment skills : assessment through touch
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Palpation and assessment skills : assessment through touch
Churchill Livingstone, c2010
3rd ed
Available at 4 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
"Palpation and Assessment Skills" has been designed and developed to help the student and practitioner to understand and acquire the palpatory skills that are the foundation of all effective manual therapy assessments and treatments. Subtlety and sensitivity of touch, and the accurate interpretation of palpation findings and tests, are essential aspects of all manual therapy professions. While it is difficult to learn these from written descriptions or static illustrations alone, by combining a workbook approach with the use of video demonstrations and audio explanations on a DVD, "Palpation and Assessment Skills" provides the student and developing practitioner with a portable workshop, that they can access at any time.
Table of Contents
CONTENTS The CD-Rom accompanying this text includes video sequences of all the techniques indicated in the text by the icon. To look at the video for a given technique, click on the relevant icon in the contents list on the CD-ROM. The CD-ROM is designed to be used in conjunction with the text and not as a stand-alone product. Preface Glossary Contents Chapters and Special Topics Chapter 1 Objective: palpatory literacy Leon Chaitow Special Topic I Using appropriate pressure (and the MPI) Chapter 2 Palpation reliability and validity Michael Seffinger Chapter 3 Fundamentals of palpation Leon Chaitow Special Topic 3 Visual assessment, the dominant eye, and other issues Chapter 4 Palpating and Assessing the skin Leon Chaitow Chapter 5 Palpating for changes in muscle structure Leon Chaitow Special Topic 5 The morphology of reflex and acupuncture points Chapter 6 Fascial palpation Thomas W. Myers Chapter 7 Assessment of 'abnormal mechanical tension' in the nervous system Leon Chaitow Special Topic 7 Assessing dural restriction Chapter 8 Palpation and assessment of joints (including spine and pelvis) Leon Chaitow Special Topic 8 Percussion palpation Chapter 9 Accurately identifying musculoskeletal dysfunction Whitney Lowe Special Topic 9 Joint play/'end feel'/range of motion: what are they? Chapter 10 Visceral palpation and respiratory function assessment Leon Chaitow Chapter 11 Introduction to functional palpation Leon Chaitow Special Topic 11 About hyperventilation Chapter 12 Understanding and using intuitive faculties Sasha Chaitow Special Topic 12 Synesthaesia Chapter 13 Subtle palpation (including cranial rhythms, energy, and 'has tissue a memory?' Leon Chaitow Chapter 14 Chinese palpatory skills Stefan Chmelik Special Topic 14 Palpating the traditional Chinese pulses Chapter 15 Palpation and emotional states Leon Chaitow Index
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