Assessment and Treatment Methods for Manual Therapists 9781839978753, 9780857013941, 9780857013958, 9781848193260, 9780857012814, 9781909141346, 9781912085156, 9781909141315, 9781912085187

Table of contents :
Assessment and Treatment Methods for Manual Therapists
Cover
Of related inerest
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
Invitation
How to Use This Book
1. Foundations
Concepts and history
2. Assessment Methods
Introduction
Assessment algorithm
General assessment methods
Assessment method 1: general listening
Assessment method 2: general lift
Assessment method 3: general tap
Local assessment methods
Assessment method 4: local listening
Assessment method 5: local lift
Assessment method 6: local tap
Assessment method 7: layer awareness
Assessment method 8: layer palpation
Assessment method 9: layer listening
Assessment method 10: manual thermal evaluation
Assessment method 11: ultraslow mobility testing
Assessment method 12: ruling out false positives on orthopedic tests
Assessment methods useful for both general and local assessment
Assessment method 13: mobility testing
Assessment method 14: yes–no questions (applied kinesiology and a variant)
Assessment method 15: developing intuition
Assessment method 16: introduction to use of the craniosacral rhythm as an assessment tool
Extended assessment methods
Assessment method 17: extended listening
Assessment method 18: listening from a symptomatic area
Assessment method 19: assessment algorithm
3. Treatment Methods
Introduction to treatment techniques
Treatment methods in which therapeutic engagement is made by the client’s system and unwinding is used
Treatment method 1: classic unwinding
Treatment method 2: augmented unwinding
Treatment method 3: alternate interrupt unwinding
Treatment techniques in which tissue engagement is made by the therapist and unwinding is used
Treatment method 4: near first barrier stack
Treatment method 5: far first barrier stack
Treatment method 6: mixed directions of near and far first barrier stack
Treatment method 7: stack–restack: a sequence of single release stacks
Treatment method 8: walking through the spectrum of barriers
Treatment method 9: stack and borrow
Treatment method 10: standing adaptation of the sacro-occipital technique (SOT) type 4 correction: an application of the stack and borrow technique
Treatment method 11: scrubbing the walls
Treatment method 12: pendulum wall scrubbing
Techniques in which therapeutic engagement is made by the therapist and unwinding is not used
Treatment method 13: recoil
Treatment method 14: accordion technique, also known as alternating decompression
Treatment method 15: centralizing (Hoover) technique
Treatment method 16: induction of a bodily rhythm
Treatment method 17: reconstructed A. T. Still technique
Treatment method 18: listen and follow
Treatment method 19: load and tap
Techniques in which therapeutic engagement is made by the therapist and unwinding may or may not occur
Treatment method 20: first barrier stretch
Treatment method 21: first barrier shear
Treatment method 22: middle barrier technique
Treatment method 23: flossing
Treatment method 24: circle flossing
Leverage principles that may be used with many techniques
4. Five In-Depth Treatment Protocols
5. Appendices
Appendix 1: Recommended reading
Appendix 2: How this book came to be: a biographical appendix
Appendix 3: Mechanical force types
Appendix 4: Space between the stars
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