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Palpation skills : assessment and diagnosis through touch / Leon Chaitow ; foreword by Viola Frymann ; illustrated by Graeme Chambers.

Title: Palpation skills : assessment and diagnosis through touch / Leon Chaitow ; foreword by Viola Frymann ; illustrated by Graeme Chambers.
Author: Chaitow, Leon.
Publication: New York : Churchill Livingstone, [1997], ©1997.

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Description

xi, 283 pages : illustrations; 30 cm

Alternative Title

Assessment and diagnosis through touch

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Contents

Special topic 1. Structure and function -- Ch. 1. Objective - palpatory literacy -- Special topic 2. The dominant eye and sensory literacy -- Ch. 2. First steps in skill enhancement -- Special topic 3. Morphology of reflex and acupuncture points -- Ch. 3. Palpating and assessing the skin -- Special topic 4. Is it a muscle or a joint problem? -- Ch. 4. Palpating for changes in muscle structure -- Special topic 5. Red, white and black reaction -- Ch. 5. Palpation of subtle movements -- Special topic 6. Assessing dural restriction -- Ch. 6. Assessment of 'abnormal mechanical tension' in the nervous system -- Special topic 7. Source of pain - is it reflex or local? -- Ch. 7. Introduction to functional palpation -- Special topic 8. Joint play, 'end-feel', range of motion: what are they? -- Ch. 8. Palpation and assessment of spine and pelvis -- Special topic 9. Percussion palpation -- Ch. 9. Visceral palpation and breathing function assessment --
Special topic 10. Palpating the traditional Chinese pulses -- Ch. 10. Palpation without touch (therapeutic touch) -- Special topic 11. About hyperventilation -- Ch. 11. Palpation and emotional states.

ISBN

0443053200

LCCN

96037078

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries