Palpation and Assessment Skills: Assessment Through Touch

Palpation and Assessment Skills:
Assessment Through Touch

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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

About the Author
Leon Chaitow ND DO is an internationally known and respected osteopathic and naturopathic practitioner and teacher of soft tissue manipulation methods of treatment. He is author of over 60 books, including a series on Advanced Soft Tissue Manipulation (Muscle Energy Techniques, Positional Release Techniques, Modern Neuromuscular Techniques) and also Palpation Skills; Cranial Manipulation: Theory and Practice; Fibromyalgia Syndrome: A Practitioner's Guide to Treatment, and many more. He is editor of the peer reviewed Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies, that offers a multidisciplinary perspective on physical methods of patient care. Leon Chaitow was for many years senior lecturer on the Therapeutic Bodywork degree courses which he helped to design at the School of Integrated Health, University of Westminster, London, where is he now an Honorary Fellow. He continues to teach and practice part-time in London, when not in Corfu, Greece where he focuses on his writing.

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.

Chapter 1 Objective: palpatory literacy
Chapter 2 Palpation reliability and validity
Chapter 3 Fundamentals of palpation
Chapter 4 Palpating and Assessing the skin
Chapter 5 Palpating for changes in muscle structure
Chapter 6 Fascial palpation
Chapter 7 Assessment of 'abnormal mechanical tension' in the nervous system
Chapter 8 Palpation and assessment of joints (including spine and pelvis)
Chapter 9 Accurately identifying musculoskeletal dysfunction
Chapter 10 Visceral palpation and respiratory function assessment
Chapter 11 Introduction to functional palpation
Chapter 12 Understanding and using intuitive faculties
Chapter 13 Subtle palpation (including cranial rhythms, energy, and 'has tissue a memory?'
Chapter 14 Chinese palpatory skills
Chapter 15 Palpation and emotional states

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