North Coast Book: Clinical Mastery in the Treatment of Myofascial Pain
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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.
Presents a multidisciplinary, round table approach to treatment representing clinical expertise from leaders in chiropractic, neurology, osteopathy, physical therapy, medicine, podiatry, and dentistry
- 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 setting
- 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
By Robert Gerwin MD Private Practice, Bethesda, MD, Lucy Whyte Ferguson DC, Colonias Chiropractic Center, El Prado, NM,
608 Pages. Published date 2004.
