Palpation and assessment skills : assessment through touch(chaitow, Palpation and assessment skills)
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New York :
Churchill Livingstone ,
2010
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Objective, palpatory literacy
- 2.Palpation reliability and validity
- 3.Fundamentals of palpation
- 4. Palpating and assessing the skin
- 5.Palpating for changes in muscle structure
- 6. Fascial palpation
- 7.Assessment of "abnormal mechanical tension" in the nervous system
- 8.Palpation and assessment of joints (including spine and pelvis)
- 9. Accurately identifying musculoskeletal dysfunction
- 10. Visceral palpation and respiratory function assessment
- 11.Introduction to functional palpation
- 12.Understanding and using intuitive faculties
- 13. Subtle palpation (including cranial rhythms, energy and "has tissue a memory?")
- 14.Chinese palpatory skills
- 15.Palpation and emotional states