Palpation and assessment skills : assessment through touch(chaitow, Palpation and assessment skills)

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chaitow, Leon (Author), Chaitow, Sasha (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Churchill Livingstone , 2010
Subjects:
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