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
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| Preface |
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| Acknowledgements |
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| Glossary |
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Special Topic 1 Using appropriate pressure (and the MPI) |
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Objective: palpatory literacy |
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5 | (8) |
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Special Topic 2 Structure and function: are they inseparable? |
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13 | (22) |
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Palpation reliability and validity |
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17 | (18) |
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Special Topic 3 Visual assessment, the dominant eye and other issues |
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35 | (20) |
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Fundamentals of palpation |
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39 | (16) |
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Special Topic 4 Source of pain - is it reflex or local? |
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55 | (22) |
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Palpating and assessing the skin |
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59 | (18) |
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Special Topic 5 The morphology of reflex and acupuncture points |
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77 | (48) |
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Palpating for changes in muscle structure |
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81 | (44) |
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Special Topic 6 Is it a muscle or a joint problem? |
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125 | (18) |
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129 | (14) |
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Special Topic 7 Assessing dural restriction |
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143 | (10) |
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Assessment of `abnormal mechanical tension' in the nervous system |
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145 | (8) |
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Special Topic 8 Percussion palpation |
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153 | (40) |
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Palpation and assessment of joints (including spine and pelvis) |
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159 | (34) |
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Special Topic 9 Joint play/`end-feel' range of motion: what are they? |
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193 | (20) |
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Accurately identifying musculoskeletal dysfunction |
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199 | (14) |
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Special Topic 10 Fibromyalgia palpation assessment |
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213 | (16) |
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Visceral palpation and respiratory function assessment |
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217 | (12) |
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Special Topic 11 About hyperventilation |
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229 | (16) |
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Introduction to functional palpation |
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233 | (12) |
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Special Topic 12 Synaesthesia |
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245 | (10) |
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Understanding and using intuitive faculties |
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249 | (6) |
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Special Topic 13 Red, white and black reaction |
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255 | (34) |
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Subtle palpation (including cranial rhythms, energy and `has tissue a memory?') |
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259 | (30) |
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Special Topic 14 Palpating the traditional Chinese pulses |
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289 | (28) |
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293 | (12) |
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Palpation and emotional states |
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305 | (12) |
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| Appendix: Location of Chapman's neurolymphatic reflexes |
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| Index |
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Leon Chaitow ND DO is an internationally known and respected osteopathic and naturopathic practitioner and teacher of soft tissue manipulation methods of treatment. He is author of over 60 books, including a series on Advanced Soft Tissue Manipulation (Muscle Energy Techniques, Positional Release Techniques, Modern Neuromuscular Techniques) and also Palpation Skills; Cranial Manipulation: Theory and Practice; Fibromyalgia Syndrome: A Practitioner's Guide to Treatment, and many more. He is editor of the peer reviewed Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies, that offers a multidisciplinary perspective on physical methods of patient care. Leon Chaitow was for many years senior lecturer on the Therapeutic Bodywork degree courses which he helped to design at the School of Integrated Health, University of Westminster, London, where is he now an Honorary Fellow. He continues to teach and practice part-time in London, when not in Corfu, Greece where he focuses on his writing.
