Palpation and Assessment Skills : Assessment Through Touch

by Chaitow, Leon; Chmelik, Stefan (CON); Chaitow, Sasha (CON); Lowe, Whitney; Myers, Thomas W. (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780443069352
• ISBN10: 0443069352
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-12-28
• Publisher: Elsevier Science Health Science

Summary

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

Preface

Glossary

Chapters and Special Topics

Objective: palpatory literacy

Using appropriate pressure (and the MPI)

Palpation reliability and validity

Fundamentals of palpation

Visual assessment, the dominant eye, and other issues

Palpating and Assessing the skin

Palpating for changes in muscle structure

The morphology of reflex and acupuncture points

Fascial palpation

Assessment of 'abnormal mechanical tension' in the nervous system

Assessing dural restriction

Palpation and assessment of joints (including spine and pelvis)

Percussion palpation

Accurately identifying musculoskeletal dysfunction

Joint play/'end feel'/range of motion: what are they?

Visceral palpation and respiratory function assessment

Introduction to functional palpation

About hyperventilation

Understanding and using intuitive faculties

Synesthaesia

Subtle palpation (including cranial rhythms, energy, and 'has tissue a memory?'

Chinese palpatory skills

Palpating the traditional Chinese pulses

Palpation and emotional states

Index

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