Palpation and Assessment Skills. Assessment through Touch + Dvd-Rom

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

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

Author Information

By Leon Chaitow, ND, DO, Registered Osteopath and Naturopath, Honorary Fellow, School of Integrated Health, University of Westminster, London, UK