Palpation and Assessment Skills: Assessment Through Touch CDROM 2nd Ed

Description

Workbook to help both practitioner & student towards increasingly sophisticated assessment & practice through palpatory skills of all tissues & systems,including the skin,muscle structure, the spine & the pelvis. Illustrated. - L. Chaitow (2007) 392pp

'Palpation and Assessment Skills' has been designed and developed to help the reader understand and acquire the palpatory skills which are the foundation of all effective manual therapy assessments and treatments.

Subtlety 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 description or static illustrations alone.

By combining a workbook approach with the use of video demonstrations and audio explanations on a CD-ROM, 'Palpation and Assessment Skils' provides the student and developing practitioner with a portable workshop which they can access at any time.

Key Features:

- Covers the palpitation and assessment of all tissues and systems, including the skin, muscle structure, and the spine and pelvis.

- Gives practical guidance and instruction on a broad variety of palpation techniques.

- All the palpation techniques covered are clearly described and illustrated in the text and supported by video film on the CD-ROM.

- Each technique is supported by practical exercises and self assessment questions.

Directs the beginner in the correct way to carry out the techniques and provides additional techniques for the practitioner to add to his basic library of skills.

- Provides outcome expectations against which progress can be measured.

The video support can help to identify how to improve these skills.

- Written by a highly respected practitioner and teacher, he brings his workshops to the individual at home and in the clinic

- 2-colour printing throughout the text helps to clarify the structure of the content and the details of the movements being shown in the diagrams.

- The CD-ROM supports and supplements the written text 'Palpation and Assessment Skills: Assessment and Diagnosis through Touch' will be of practical 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.

Date reviewed

08/01/2004

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