A practical guide to manual medicine, Principles of Manual Medicine has been fully updated and expanded for the Third Edition.

Principles of Manual Medicine covers the foundations of manual medicine as well as specific techniques for diagnosing and treating musculoskeletal pain.

More than 1,000 photographs combined with detailed instructions for each technique make this an invaluable clinical reference. Practitioners can keep up to date with expanded chapters on increasingly popular soft tissue techniques and new techniques for the treatment of closed head injuries. Adjunctive techniques and the use of exercise to prevent and treat disease are also covered.

Contents

Principles and Concepts

1. Structural diagnosis and manipulative medicine history
2. Principles of structural diagnosis
3. Barrier concepts in structural diagnosis
4. The manipulative prescription
5. Normal vertebral motion
6. Concepts of vertebral motion dysfunction
7. Principles of soft tissue and other peripheral stimulating techniques
8. Principles of muscle energy technique
9. Mobilization with and without impulse technique
10. Principles of indirect echnique
11. Principles of myofascial release and integrated neuromusculoskeletal technique

Technique Procedures

12. Craniosacral technique
13. Craniosacral technique
14. Cervical spine technique
15. Thoracic spine technique
16. Rib cage technique
17. Lumbar spine technique
18. Pelvic girdle technique
19. Upper extremity technique
20. Lower extremity technique
21. Exercise principles and prescriptions
22. Adjunctive diagnostic procedures
23. Adjunctive therapeutic procedures
24. Common clinical syndromes

Index

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