Foundations for Osteopathic Medicine | 
 enlarge | Authors: Robert C Ward, Raymond J Hruby, John A Jerome, John M Jones, Robert E Kappler
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 321094
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Second Edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1472
Shipping Weight (lbs): 8.6
Dimensions (in): 11.2 x 8.8 x 2.1
ISBN: 0781734975
Dewey Decimal Number: 615.533
EAN: 9780781734974
ASIN: 0781734975
Publication Date: October 1, 2002
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Product Description
Thoroughly revised for its Second Edition, Foundations for Osteopathic Medicine is the only comprehensive, current osteopathic text. It provides broad, multidisciplinary coverage of osteopathic considerations in the basic sciences, behavioral sciences, family practice and primary care, and the clinical specialties and demonstrates a wide variety of osteopathic manipulative methods. This edition includes new chapters on biomechanics, microbiology and infectious diseases, health promotion and maintenance, osteopathic psychiatry, emergency medicine, neuromusculoskeletal medicine, rehabilitation, sports medicine, progressive inhibition of neuromuscular structures, visceral manipulation, A.T. Still osteopathic methods, treatment of acutely ill hospital patients, somatic dysfunction, clinical research and trials, outcomes research, and biobehavioral interactions with disease and health.
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Comprehensive resource August 29, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is well worth purchasing. It is very logical and comprehensive. It provides a holistic framework for effective health care regardless of the health practitioners profession.
Great for beginning and experienced osteopaths. October 9, 1999
34 out of 36 found this review helpful
This is the long awaited basic textbook for osteopathic medicine. It is surprisingly complete, covering philosophy, history, research, and manipulative techniques. The beginning osteopathic student may find it most useful for its practical discussion on the techniques--high velocity, myofascial release, etc. I believe it is also helpful in standardizing our terminology, which will make it easier when taking board exams or talking with colleagues from other osteopathic schools. It includes contributors well known within the osteopathic community, including Michael and William Kuchera, Melicien Tettambel, Eileen DiGiovanna, and many others. As a family practice resident I frequently turn to this textbook first when I want to know more about how to treat a patient or when preparing lectures for students and housestaff.
The osteopathic manipulative therapy bible! December 29, 1998
26 out of 27 found this review helpful
This text is actually required reading for most if not all osteopathic medical students. It is a 'textbook', however, and hence completely (sometimes exhaustively!) comprehensive. But it is easy to read so that anyone with an interest in OMT will get a methodic how-to for myriad techniques, also a thorough history of osteopathic medicine to boot! One of my OMT professors at the University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine wrote or co-wrote a few of the chapters so of course, I think those are the best! If you are looking for an educational approach to learning manipulation and the reasons behind it, this is a valuable resouce.
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