Description
This concise and easily referenced clinical text brings together editors from a range of disciplines—including chiropractic, osteopathy, physical therapy, and medicine—to address therapeutic approaches to common muscle and joint pain. Organized by chief complaint, each chapter follows a structured format that takes readers from overview and assessment, through a case history, to a planned program of rehabilitation, generalization to similar conditions, and a treatment protocol.
Readers will explore key differences in assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation—a great aid in choosing the best therapy for each patient. The book’s practical, case study approach addresses a variety of factors affecting myofascial integrity, including psychological issues, sleep patterns, nutrition, and fitness. A glossary defines interdisciplinary nomenclature.
Features
--Addresses the most commonly seen pain problems in practice
--Helps clinicians integrate myofascial pain management concepts into reliable examination/diagnosis and treatment procedures
--Presents the following for each pain disorder:
- Traditional and alternative approaches to assessment and treatment
- Case histories - reviewing the etiology, pain history and diagnosis/ treatment of myofascial pain
- Planned sequential programs of rehabilitation ¿ including treatment tips, self care and exercise rehabilitation
- Common patterns of muscle and joint disorders
- Interdisciplinary treatment protocols with patient follow-through for a variety of clinical settings
--Provides a more practical understanding of pain patterns, function, and stretch
--Employs a practical, problem-solving approach to assessment and treatment
--Includes a glossary of interdisciplinary nomenclature
--Helps readers more effectively diagnose conditions, develop treatment regimens that reduce the length of treatment, and prescribe patient activities that encourage the recovery process
About the Author(s)
- Lucy Whyte Ferguson DC
- <DIV>Colonias Chiropractic Center, El Prado, NM</DIV></div></div>
- Robert Gerwin MD
- <DIV>Private Practice, Bethesda, MD</DIV></div></div>
Specs
- Product Format: Hardbound
- ISBN: 9780683306200
- Trim Size: 8 1/2 x 11
- Pages: 608
- Pub Date: Oct 19, 2004
- Weight: 2.895
Associated Specialties
Table of contents
Chapter 1. Headache
Robert Gerwin, MD
Chapter 2. Masticatory Myofascial Pain
James Fricton, DDS
Chapter 3. Neck Pain and Restriction Following Whiplash
Margaret W. Royson, DO, MSW; Lucy Whyte-Ferguson, DC; Jan Dommerholt, PT, MPS
Chapter 4. Shoulder Dysfunction and Frozen Shoulder
Lucy Whyte Ferguson, DC
Chapter 5. Tennis Elbow
Michael Schneider, DC
Chapter 6. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Lewis Mock, DC
Chapter 7. Dystonia and Pseudodystonia of the Wrist and Hand: A Myofascial Approach
Nancy Shaw, CMTPT; Robert Gerwin, MD
Chapter 8. Upper Back Pain
Gregory Berkoff, DC
Chapter 9. Interscapular Pain
Tassos Spanos, CMTPT
Chapter 10. Lower Back Pain
Robert Gerwin, MD, Margaret W. Royson, DO, MSW; Roberta Shapiro, DO; Lucy Whyte Ferguson, DC
Chapter 11. Hip and Groin Pain: The Disordered Hip Complex
Lucy Whyte Ferguson, DC
Chapter 12. Abdominal Pain
Jill Maloney Newman, PT; Mary L. Maloney, PT
Chapter 13. Chronic Pelvic Pain of Myofascial Origin
Rhonda Kotarinos, PT
Chapter 14. Knee Pain
Jan Dommerholt, PT, MPS; Christian Grobli, MS, PT
Chapter 15. Heel and Foot Pain
Richard Kushner, DPM; Lucy Whyte Ferguson, DC
Index
