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Postural Assessment
Jane Johnson
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Description for Postural Assessment
Paperback. A comprehensive guide to assessing posture, with tips that enable you to perform your observations in a competent manner. It focuses on what posture reveals about the relationships among various body parts so that you can be better informed about whether such relationships are causing or contributing to pain or discomfort. Num Pages: 176 pages, 74 colour illustrations, 206 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: MQS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 255 x 182 x 10. Weight in Grams: 442.
This title is the latest addition to the bestselling "Hands-On Guides for Therapists" series! "Postural Assessment" is a comprehensive, user-friendly guide to assessing posture, with tips that will enable you to perform your observations in a confident and competent manner. This book focuses on what posture reveals about the relationships among various body parts so that you can be better informed about whether such relationships are causing or contributing to pain or discomfort. The emphasis is on the assessment of static posture in standing and seated positions. This is the latest book by Jane Johnson in the "Hands-On Guides for Therapists" and is written for complete beginners in the use of postural assessment as an examination tool which will generate ideas about what to look for, how to identify common postural forms and how to make sense of your observations. This title is featured at sport medicine events throughout the UK and Europe. Mailing of this title is to medicine and rehabilitation professionals. E-mail marketing campaign to contacts interested in medicine and rehabilitation. This title is also featured in Human Kinetics' monthly "Academic E-Newsletter" sent to over 8,000 subscribers, and on Human Kinetics' Health & Fitness Blog.
Product Details
Publisher
Human Kinetics Publishers United States
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
441g
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Champaign, IL, United States
ISBN
9781450400961
SKU
V9781450400961
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-2
About Jane Johnson
Jane Johnson loves being a physiotherapist and embraces the challenges and the opportunities that the role attracts. After many years working as a musculoskeletal physiotherapist in occupational health she is now finishing PhD at Teesside University. Part-funded by the Royal College of Chiropractors, she is tasked with developing a valid and reliable app for the measurement of postural change in patients with back and neck pain. She is the author of six titles in the Hands-On Guides for Therapists series (Human Kinetics publishers). These are, Postural Assessment, Postural Correction, Therapeutic Stretching, Soft Tissue Release, Deep Tissue Massage and Soft Tissue and Trigger Point Release. Postural Assessment has sold over 10,000 copies. She is passionate about physiotherapy (and particularly occupational health physiotherapy) as well as massage, and endeavours to support anyone entering or remaining in these professions.
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