Clinical Reasoning for Manual Therapists
By- Mark Jones, BSc(Psych) Cert Phys Ther, Grad Dip Advan Manip Ther, MAppSc(Manip Ther), Senior Lecturer, School of Health Sciences, University of South Australia, Australia
- Darren Rivett, PhD, MAppSc(ManipPhty), BAppSc(Phty), GradDipManip Ther, Professor of Physiotherapy, Head of School, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health, The University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia
The purpose of this book is to increase the readers' awareness of clinical reasoning, including factors that influence reasoning and how to promote skilled reasoning. This book will provide the reader with opportunities to improve their reasoning through facilitated analysis of case studies and access to the reasoning of experts from around the world for comparison to their own.
Paperback, 460 Pages
Published: November 2003
Imprint: Butterworth Heinemann
ISBN: 978-0-7506-3906-4
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 therapists2. Back and bilateral leg pain in a 63 year old woman
Section 3: Theroy and development
3. Ongoing low back, leg and thorax troubles, with tennis elbow and headache
4. Chronic low back pain over 13 years
5. Unnecessary fear aviodance 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 hocket 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 redius 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 elderl 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 activities25. Educational theory and principles related to learning clinical reasoning
Appendix 1: Reflective diary
26. Improving clinical reasoning in manual therapyAppendix 2: Self-reflection worksheet
Index
