Thorax

Thorax

Code: BK2614

  Barral, J.
  1989
  Osteo, Chiro, Cranio, AT - E01
  Compl./Alternative Medicine (E1-E8)

Description

This book explores the osteopathic implications of dysfunctions of the trunk. The author focuses on the thoracic cage and its content. Provides detailed instructions for manipulative techniques. - By J. Barral. (1989) 174pp

This book is the third volume in Jean Pierre Barral's widely acclaimed exploration of the osteopathic implications of dysfunctions of the trunk.

While his previous books, Visceral Manipulation and Visceral Manipulation II, focus on the abdomen, here the author turns his unique gaze to the thoracic cage and its contents.

This area of the body has been of particular interest to Barral ever since he worked in a pulmonary hospital as a physiotherapist prior to osteopathic school.

Barral begins by describing the torax as an area of conflict and contrast:it must protect the organs enclosed within, yet must also allow exchanges with the neck and abdomen.

Problems with either of its dual roles of protection and exchange lie at the root of most thoracic disorders.

Because many of the conflicting forces come into play at the cervicothoracic junction with its myriad muscular, fascial, vascular and nervous tissues, this area is given special attention.

A brief overview of the origins of thoracic restrictions is followed by a detailed and superbly-illustrated tour of the applied anatomy of the throrax, including the osteoarticular, muscular, fascial, visceral, vascular and nervous systems.

The emphasis is on those structures which the author regards as most important from the standpoint of manipulation.

After discussing the effects of the pleura and myofasical system in the dynamics of respiration, Barral describes some of the pathologies of the thorax.

This material supplements more conventional texts with the author's own perspective on a variety of problems from an osteopathic point of view.

A chapter on manual diagnosis elucidates many important and easily-performed tests that help localize restrictions to the precise tissues involved.

Among the special tests discussed here are the completed Adson-Wright test, general and local listening of the thorax, and the utilization of various access points for the phrenic nerve.

A final chapter provides detailed instructions for manipulative techniques in treating restrictions of the various structures of the thorax.

As in this previous works, the application of these techniques is presented in Barral's clear and clinically-based style.

Date reviewed

12/01/2002

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