Acupuncture in Manual Therapy
Акупунктура в мануальной терапии

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Автор: Jennie Longbottom
Издательство: Churchill Livingstone
Издание: 1
Дата: Июнь 2010
Язык: English
ISBN-10: 0443067821
ISBN-13: 978-0443067822
Формат: PDF
Размер: 14.4 MB

Product Description
"Acupuncture in Manual Therapy" is a comprehensive overview of manual therapy interventions combined with acupuncture management of musculoskeletal disorders covering all major joints of the body. The book is intended to offer physiotherapists and students of acupuncture a clinical reasoning model, whilst supporting suggested interventions with the relevant evidence base in order to alleviate pain, restore function and facilitate rehabilitation within musculoskeletal management. It places an emphasis on the neurophysiological processes of pain management stressing the importance of using the correct intervention for the relevant presenting pain mechanism. Each chapter of this book discusses suggested manual intervention, acupuncture evidence and physiological processes underpinning this combined approach to musculoskeletal pain and dysfunction including meridian acupuncture, auricular acupuncture, electroacupuncture, tens and trigger point acupuncture as a means of addressing the varying pain patterns presented within musculoskeletal rehabilitation. This book provides knowledge from distinctive and prominent contributors from the world of manual therapy and acupuncture whilst this expertise is further supported by the provision of student case studies to offer support and enhance learning.

Table of Contents
Contributors
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Preface
1 Clinical reasoning in western acupuncture
2 The temporomandibular joint
3 Cervical spine
4 The shoulder
5 The Elbow
6 The Thoracic spine
7 Manual therapy in low back pain
8 The sacroiliac joint and pelvis
9 The hip
10 Anterior Knee pain
11 Musculoskeletal Injuries in the foot and ankle
12 Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulators for Pain Management