Chiropractic Technique

Text on the applications and theories behind Activator Methods Chiropractic Technique (AMCT), for chiropractic practitioners and students. Information on diagnosis, treatment contraindications, and treatment suggestions for atypical cases.

Illustrated with many photos and illustrations demonstrating proper technique, the chapters address such issues as: non- accidental injury and child maltreatment, vaccination issues, children in motor vehicle collisions, the prenatal and perinatal period, exercise during pregnancy, physical assessment, diagnostic imaging, the spinal examination and specific spinal and pelvic adjustments, craniosacral therapy, pediatric nutrition, spinal subluxation, clinical neurology, orthopedics, scoliosis, the febrile child, the challenged child, adolescent care, and adolescents with acute spinal injuries.

This comprehensive manual, authored by Joan Fallon, DC is an asset to the student as well as the practitioner. Includes chapters on: Reproductive Neuroanatomy, Hormones, Prenatal Care, The Birth, Orthopedic and Neurological Conditions of Pregnancy, Subluxation Complex, Birth Injuries, and Adjusting the Pregnant Woman. Extremely well-illustrated. Also includes case reports, index and glossary. Casebound (224 pages).

Explores specific chiropractic treatment needs of infants and children, women, the elderly, and special needs children, offering chiropractic clinical strategies that fall outside the accepted standards. Some topics include assessment of pediatric conditions, otitis media, osteoporosis, partner abuse, and trauma in the geriatric patient. Adjustment techniques are described in detail and illustrated with b&w photos. Chapters are reprinted articles from five years of the journal . Mootz is associate medical director for chiropractic for the State of Washington Department of Labor and Industries in Olympia, Washington.

Written by an expert on alternative bodywork, this book presents techniques for manipulating the soft tissues of the back in a safe, simple manner. The method avoids the high-velocity, low-amplitude thrusting techniques employed by chiropractors. Instead, it utilizes the intuitive sense of somatic bodyworkers combined with the proven theory and technique of Rolfing to provide safe and effective treatment.

Dr. Epstein has help thousands of people get a new perspective of health and healing. The 12 stages model provides ideas for a new journey in understanding the healing process without the usual judgement of symptoms as bad or wrong. The book has some very easy exercises at the end of each chapter that can help integrate awareness to the body with breath and attention. A great book for those looking for a the bigger picture of health (from the inside out)

"...a new edition providing step-by-step instructions on how to examine patients using a logical sequence of passive, contractile, and special tests, and how to relate findings to biomechanical problems and lesions." Appropriate for: Chiropractic Students, Chiropractors.

The emphasis of this text is on conditions that a practicing chiropractor might reasonably expect to see, and not primarily on spinal neuromusculoskeletal conditions.   In fact, the chapter on that subject, often seen as the only domain of chiropractic medicine, is small; the bulk of the book addresses the management of organic conditions--those which can be treated with manipulation and conservative care and those which the chiropractor must know how to diagnose and refer.   Williams & Wilkins is to be congratulated for publication of medical information from a profession that seeks therapeutic strategies outside of surgical and chemotherapeutic interventions

This book is in use for the Chiropractic course in Odense, Denmark, as a textbook on chiropractic technique in the 5th and 6th semester of the 10 semester university programme.   Great book with nice illustrations, allthough there are a few mistakes or typing errors.   This is a great book for teaching manipulative therapy.