Clinical Reasoning for Manual Therapists

by Jones & Rivett

• ISBN13: 9780750639064
• ISBN10: 0750639067
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-11-21
• Publisher: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN

Summary

A practical text covering the theory and the practice of clinical reasoning skills for all physical therapists. Provides readers with activities to improve their own clinical reasoning within their own clinical setting. With a range of very high-caliber international contributors in the field of physiotherapy practice, this book gives the answers to the practitioner's question of how does one apply the theoretical knowledge involved in clinical reasoning to practice and how can one become a better practitioner as a result.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vii
Foreword	ix
Lance Twomey
Preface	xi
Introduction	xii
Section 1 Principles of clinical reasoning in manual therapy	1	(24)
1 Introduction to clinical reasoning	3	(24)
Mark A. Jones and Darren A. Rivett
Section 2 Clinical reasoning in action: case studies from expert manual therapists	25	(352)
2 Back and bilateral leg pain in a 63-year-old woman	27	(9)
Mark Bookhout
3 Ongoing low back, leg and thorax troubles, with tennis elbow and headache	36	(15)
David Butler
4 Chronic low back pain over 13 years	51	(10)
Dick Erhard and Brian Egloff
5 Unnecessary fear avoidance and physical incapacity in a 55-year-old housewife	61	(26)
Louis Gifford
6 A chronic case of mechanic's elbow	87	(16)
Toby Hall and Brian Mulligan
7 Chronic low back and coccygeal pain	103	(20)
Paul Hodges
8 Ankle sprain in a 14-year-old girl	123	(12)
Gary Hunt
9 Headache in a mature athlete	135	(14)
Gwendolen Jull
10 Thoracic pain limiting a patient's secretarial work and sport	149	(12)
Diane Lee
11 Bilateral shoulder pain in a 16-year-old long-distance swimmer	161	(19)
Mary Magarey
12 Medial collateral ligament repair in a professional ice hockey player	180	(14)
David Magee
13 Patellofemoral pain in a professional tennis player	194	(12)
Jenny McConnell
14 Self-management guided by directional preference and centralization in a patient with low back and leg pain	206	(9)
Robin McKenzie and Helen Clare
15 Craniovertebral dysfunction following a motor vehicle accident	215	(14)
Erl Pestman
16 A judge's fractured radius with metal fixation following an accident	229	(14)
Robert Pfund in collaboration with Freddy Kaltenborn
17 A university student with chronic facial pain	243	(18)
Mariano Rocabado
18 Adolescent hip pain	261	(14)
Shirley Sahrmann
19 A software programmer and sportsman with low back pain and sciatica	275	(37)
Tom Arild Torstensen
20 An elderly woman 'trapped within her own home' by groin pain	312	(14)
Patricia Trott and Geoffrey Maitland
21 Chronic peripartum pelvic pain	326	(14)
John van der Meid, Andry Vleeming and Jan Mens
22 Acute on chronic low back pain	340	(12)
Richard Walsh and Stanley Paris
23 A non-musculoskeletal disorder masquerading as a musculoskeletal disorder	352	(6)
Peter E. Wells
24 Forearm pain preventing leisure activities	358	(19)
Israel Zvulun
Section 3 Theory and development	377	(43)
25 Educational theory and principles related to learning clinical reasoning	379	(24)
Joy Higgs
26 Improving clinical reasoning in manual therapy	403	(17)
Darren A. Rivett and Mark A. Jones
Appendix 1: Reflective diary	420	(1)
Appendix 2: Self-reflection worksheet	421	(12)
Index	433