Palpation and Assessment in Manual Therapy

As the title suggests this book has been written to assist manual therapists
to understand and hone the palpatory skills which are essential to their effectiveness as practitioners.
Skilful palpation is the foundation stone of all effective manual therapy assessments and treatments.
The ability to use subtle and sensitive touch to examine and assess patients is essential
for an accurate interpretation of the underlying problems of fascial and muscle function.
The accurate interpretation of palpatory findings is difficult and comes with experience.
This book aims to increase awareness of how to palpate and understanding of what is being felt.
In this fourth edition of his now well-established and much loved book Leon Chaitow
has introduced references to the latest research findings relating to fascia and
its role in health and disease, so that practitioners can apply this knowledge
in interpreting what they palpate. In addition to the author, six notable contributors
from Europe and North America enhance the work’s range and authority.
All manual therapists, whatever their professional background,
will benefit from the wealth of experience- and research-based information presented in this book.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. Objective: Palpatory literacy Leon Chaitow
Chapter 2. Palpation reliability and validity Michael Seffinger
Chapter 3. Fundamentals of palpation Leon Chaitow
Chapter 4. Palpating and assessing the skin Leon Chaitow
Chapter 5. Palpating for changes in muscle structure Leon Chaitow
Chapter 6. Fascial palpation Thomas W. Myers and Leon Chaitow
Chapter 7. Assessment of abnormal mechanical tension in the nervous system Leon Chaitow
Chapter 8. Palpation and assessment of joints (including spine and pelvis) Leon Chaitow
Chapter 9. Accurately identifying musculoskeletal dysfunction Whitney Lowe
Chapter 10 – Evaluating movement Warrick McNeill and Sarah Mottram
Chapter 11. Palpating for functional ‘ease’ Leon Chaitow
Chapter 12 – Visceral palpation and respiratory function assessment Leon Chaitow
Chapter 13 – Understanding and using intuitive faculties Sasha Chaitow
Chapter 14 – Subtle palpation Leon Chaitow
Chapter 15 – Palpation and emotional states Leon Chaitow
Index.

Leon Chaitow ist ein international anerkannter Osteopath, Autor und Dozent. Er unterrichtet an der Universität von Westminster in London.
Leon Chaitow
is an internationally known and respected osteopathic and naturopathic practitioner and teacher of soft tissue manipulation methods of treatment. He is author of over 60 books and editor of the peer reviewed Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies, that offers a multidisciplinary perspective on physical methods of patient care. Leon Chaitow was for many years senior lecturer on the Therapeutic Bodywork degree courses which he helped to design at the School of Integrated Health, University of Westminster, London, where is he now an Honorary Fellow. He continues to teach and practice part-time in London, when not in Corfu, Greece where he focuses on his writing.