• Clinical Reasoning For Manual Therapists
• Clinical Reasoning For Manual Therapists

A practical text covering the theory and the practice of clinical reasoning skills for all physical therapists. Provides readers with activities to improve their own clinical reasoning within their own clinical setting. With a range of very high-caliber international contributors in the field of physiotherapy practice, this book gives the answers to the practitioner's question of how does one apply the theoretical knowledge involved in clinical reasoning to practice and how can one become a better practitioner as a result. Table of Contents. Introduction Section 1: Principles of clinical reasoning in manual therapy 1. Introduction to clinical reasoning Section 2: Clinical reasoning in action: case studies from expert manual therapists 2. Back and bilateral leg pain in a 63 year old woman 3.

[3d40d6] - Clinical Reasoning For Manual Therapists clinical reasoning for manual therapists 1e 064 medicine health science books amazoncom Page 1. Clinical Reasoning in Manual Therapy. Clinical reasoning refers to the cognitive process or thinking used in the evaluation and management of a patient. Five categories of hypotheses are proposed for physical therapists using a hypothetico-deductive method of clinical reasoning.

Ongoing low back, leg and thorax troubles, with tennis elbow and headache 4. Chronic low back pain over 13 years 5.

Unnecessary fear avoidance and physical incapacity in a 55 year old housewife 6. A chronic case of mechanic's elbow 7. Chronic low back and coccygeal pain 8. Ankle sprain in a 14 year old girl 9. Headache in a mature athlete 10. Thoracic pain limiting a patient's secretarial work and sport 11. Bilateral shoulder pain in a 16 year old long-distance swimmer 12.

Medial collateral ligament repair in a professional ice hockey player 13. Patellofemoral pain in a professional tennis player 14. Self-management guided by directional preference and centralization in a patient with low back and leg pain 15. Craniovertebral dysfunction following a motor vehicle accident 16.A judge's fractured radius with metal fixation following an accident 17. A university student with chronic facial pain 18.

Adolescent hip pain 19. A software programmer and sportsman with low back pain and sciatica 20.An elderly woman 'trapped within her own home' by groin pain 21. Chronic peripartum pelvic pain 22. Acute on chronic low back pain 23.

A non-musculoskeletal disorder masquerading as a musculoskeletal disorder 24. Forearm pain preventing leisure activities Section 3: Theroy and development 25. Educational theory and principles related to learning clinical reasoning 26. Improving clinical reasoning in manual therapy Appendix 1: Reflective diary Appendix 2: Self-reflection worksheet Index.

Page/Link: Page URL: HTML link: The Free Library. Retrieved Jul 28 2018 from. Clinical Reasoning for Manual Therapists. Mark Jones & Darren Rivett (Eds), 2003. Butterworth-Heinemann (an imprint of Elsevier Australia) www.elsevier.com.au email: service@elsevier. Com.au softcover, ISBN 0 7506 3906 7 RRP $112.20 (incl GST) Clinical Reasoning for Manual Therapists is a book that more than hits the target with its aim being to help manual therapists increase their levels of clinical reasoning.

The contents include a foreword by Lance Twomey, followed by a short preface and introduction by the editors, which clearly explains to the reader how to 'use' the book to gain maximum advantage of the information within. Following this there are 3 Sections. Section 1 is an 'introduction to clinical reasoning'and is a synopsis of Jones and Rivett's beliefs on 'what is clinical reasoning'.

Clinical Reasoning For Manual Therapists

This ranges from hypothesis generation, various forms of diagnostic versus narrative reasoning, the role of reassessment, pattern recognition, reasoning both as a collaborative and reflective process, including scepticism (these reflective processes become one of the mainstays of the book). A strong, reoccurring theme through-out the book is the extrapolation of biopsychosocial factors and their interplay on patients and treatment. The editors make the reader well aware of their belief in the difference between an 'experienced' clinician and an 'expert' clinician and regularly give examples of this thinking. Section 2 'clinical reasoning in action: case studies from expert manual therapists' is a collection of 23 real clinical cases by renowned and expert manual therapists from all over the world, such as David Butler, Louis Gifford, Brian Mulligan, Paul Hunt, Gwen Jull, Shirley Sahrmann, Israel Zvulun, Stanley Paris, Freddy Kaltenborn, Diane Lee, Gary Hunt, Robin McKenzie and Helen Clare and many more.

The editors assist readers' understanding of clinical reasoning theory by pointing out specific examples as they emerge through the unfolding case reports, in grey background boxes. This section makes the book both very easy to read, and instructive. I re-read these sections many times and enjoyed them each time.

Section 3 'Theory and development' contains 2 sections. The first is by Joy Higgs and deals with 'educational theory and principles related to learning clinical reasoning'. Higgs states that the book is 'not for novice teachers and learners but rather for experienced practitioners who have practical experiences of teaching and learning, who are actively engaged in their own learning and in facilitating the learning of others.' This is a very in-depth section that is a must for all teachers and those clinicians undertaking postgraduate learning. Again references are superb and relevant. The last section, 'improving clinical reasoning in manual therapy', is a summation by Jones and Rivett where the authors talk about 'information overload' and 'fashionable practices' and reinforce their views on what makes an 'expert' clinician.

Obtaining clinical information but then knowing what to do with it or how to interpret it is the key! They go through further comprehensive clinical learning skills and techniques, creative lateral thinking and activities for clinicians in various situations to help the reader attain this goal as well as tips to avoid the pitfalls along the way.

Clinical Reasoning For Manual Therapists

Finally, in Appendices 1 and 2, there is a very comprehensive 'reflective diary' and 'self-reflection worksheet' from the University of South Australia that should keep you busy for hours! References are plentiful, appropriate and up to date through-out the book, not just from Jones and Rivett, but from all the contributors and this is pleasing to see. This well written book achieves what it sets out to achieve: degreesa self help book for motivated clinicians'.

I would be very surprised if there was any clinician who would not benefit from the included sections. This book will also become invaluable for in-service education use in many practice settings.

Michael Borich, DipPhty, DipMT.