Palpation and assessment skills : assessment and diagnosis through touch / Leon Chaitow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chaitow, Leon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Palpation.

Palpation--Technique.

Palpation--methods.

Technique.

Medical Subjects:

Palpation--methods.

Physical Description:

xii, 392 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm + 1 CD-ROM (color ; 4 3/4 in.)

Edition:

Second edition.

Other Title:

Previous ed. published as: Palpation skills

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Churchill Livingstone, 2003.

Summary:

Palpation and Assessment Skills has been designed and developed to help the reader to understand and acquire the palpatory skills which are the foundation of all effective manual therapy assessments and treatments. Subtlety and sensitivity of touch and the accurate interpretation of palpatory tests are required from the start of training in any of the manual therapy professions. 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 CD-ROM, Palpation and Assessment Skills provides the student and developing practitioner with a portable workshop which they can access at any time.

Contents:

Special topic 1 Using appropriate pressure (and the MPI) 1

Chapter 1 Objective

palpatory literacy 3

Special topic 2 Structure and function: are they inseparable? 13

Chapter 2 Palpatory accuracy

mirage or reality? 15

Special topic 3 Visual assessment, the dominant eye, and other issues 43

Chapter 3 Fundamentals of palpation 47

Special topic 4 The morphology of reflex and acupuncture points 75

Chapter 4 Palpating and assessing the skin 79

Special topic 5 Is it a muscle or a joint problem? 105

Chapter 5 Palpating for changes in muscle structure 109

Special topic 6 Red, white and black reaction 171

Chapter 6 Palpation of subtle movements (including circulation of CSF, energy and 'has tissue a memory?') 177

Special topic 7 Assessing dural restriction 213

Chapter 7 Assessment of 'abnormal mechanical tension' in the nervous system 217

Special topic 8 Source of pain

is it reflex or local? 231

Chapter 8 Introduction to functional palpation 235

Special topic 9 Joint play /'end-feel'/ range of motion: what are they? 255

Chapter 9 Palpation and assessment of joints (including spine and pelvis) 261

Special topic 10 Percussion palpation 313

Chapter 10 Visceral palpation and respiratory function assessment 319

Special topic 11 Palpating the traditional Chinese pulses 335

Chapter 11 Palpation without touch 341

Special topic 12 About hyperventilation 357

Chapter 12 Palpation and emotional states 361

Appendix Location of Chapman's neurolymphatic reflexes 379.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0443072183 :

OCLC:

51838831