Nortin Hadler knows backaches. For more than three decades as a physician and medical researcher, he has studied the experience of low back pain in people who are otherwise healthy. Hadler terms the low back pain that everyone suffers at one time or another ""regional back pain."" In this book, he addresses the history and treatment of the ailment with the healthy skepticism that has become his trademark, taking the ""Hadlerian"" approach to backaches and the backache treatment industry in order to separate the helpful from the hype. Basing his critique on an analysis of the most current medical literature as well as his clinical experience, Hadler argues that regional back pain is overly medicalized by doctors, surgeons, and alternative therapists who purvey various treatment regimens. Furthermore, he observes, the design of workers' compensation, disability insurance, and other ""health"" schemes actually thwarts getting well. For the past half century, says Hadler, back pain and back pain-related disability have exacted a huge toll, in terms of pain, suffering, and financial cost. Stabbed in the Back addresses this issue at multiple levels: as a human predicament, a profound social problem, a medical question, and a vexing public-policy challenge. Ultimately, Hadler's insights illustrate how the state of the science can and should inform the art and practice of medicine as well as public policy. Stabbed in the Back will arm any reader with the insights necessary to make informed decisions when confronting the next episode of low back pain.

The Pocket Manual of OMT is a practical, concise clinical reference for physicians and osteopathic medical students learning and using manipulative diagnosis and treatment techniques. The book's organization by body region enables readers to select appropriate treatments for specific diseases. For each technique, the book provides indications, contraindications, a stepwise description, and a photograph.

This edition presents 43 new techniques, including seated facet release and inherent motion diagnosis and treatment techniques. Updated and expanded descriptions of osteopathic principles are complemented by new illustrations and clinical correlations. Exercises that clinicians can prescribe to patients appear after the appropriate treatments.

A companion website offers the fully searchable text; online case studies with COMLEX-style multiple-choice questions for each chapter; and 250 instructional technique videos.

Patrick van den Heede gilt gegenwartig als einer innovativsten Osteopathen. In seinem englischsprachigen Buch beschreibt er die Osteopathie als Kunst der Kommunikation mit dem Gewebe und erklart den therapeutischen Wert dieses Bildes. Er beschreibt, wie das Gewebe auf osteopathische Massnahmen reagiert - was wiederum Einfluss auf Ihre Arbeit als Therapeut hat. Wie sich das Gewebe verandert, sich umbaut und sich an eine Behandlung "erinnert", zieht sich wie ein roter Faden durch die ubrigen Kapitel wie z.B. Kapitel zur Embryologie, Histologie, Biochemie. Damit werden Zusammenhangezwischen Theorie und Praxis auf wissenschaftlicher Ebene fur Sie klar und verstandlich. Sie begreifen, wie Osteopathie wirklich funktioniert und wie Sie Ihre Behandlungstechniken verbessern koennen.