Full Description
Like the popular previous Edition, the new Edition of Palpation 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. Subtle 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 Skills" provides the student and developing practitioner with a portable workshop which they can access at any time. "Palpation Skills: Assessment and Diagnosis through Touch" will be of practical to use to every manual therapist and practitioner at all stages of their professional development. It can help them to extend the range of skills they can bring to their practice by bringing together suggested approaches from a variety of disciplines.
Contents
Foreword. Preface. Dedication. Glossary. 1: Using appropriate pressure (and the MPI). 2: Structure and function: are they inseparable? Palpatory accuracy - mirage or reality? 3: Visual assessment and the dominant eye. Fundamentals of palpation. 4: The morphology of reflex and acupuncture points. Palpating and assessing the skin. 5: Is it a muscle or a joint problem? Palpating for changes in muscle structure. 6: Red, white and black reaction. Palpation of subtle movements (including circulation of the CSF, energy, and 'has tissue a memory?). 7: Assessing dural restriction - Assessment of 'abnormal mechanical tension' in the nervous system. 8: Source of pain - is it reflex or local? Introduction to functional palpation. 9: Joint play, 'end-feel', range of motion: what are they? Palpation and assessment of joints (including spine and pelvis). 10: Percussion palpation - Visceral palpation and breathing function assessment. 11: Palpating the traditional Chinese pulses - Palpation without touch. 12: About hyperventilation - Palpation and emotional states. Appendix. Index.
