Clinical Reasoning for Manual Therapists

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 woman3. Ongoing low back, leg and thorax troubles, with tennis elbow and headache4. Chronic low back pain over 13 years5. Unnecessary fear avoidance and physical incapacity in a 55 year old housewife6. A chronic case of mechanic's elbow7. Chronic low back and coccygeal pain8. Ankle sprain in a 14 year old girl9. Headache in a mature athlete 10. Thoracic pain limiting a patient's secretarial work and sport11. Bilateral shoulder pain in a 16 year old long-distance swimmer 12. Medial collateral ligament repair in a professional ice hockey player13. Patellofemoral pain in a professional tennis player14. Self-management guided by directional preference and centralization in a patient with low back and leg pain15. Craniovertebral dysfunction following a motor vehicle accident 16.A judge's fractured radius with metal fixation following an accident17. A university student with chronic facial pain18. Adolescent hip pain19. A software programmer and sportsman with low back pain and sciatica 20.An elderly woman 'trapped within her own home' by groin pain21. Chronic peripartum pelvic pain22. Acute on chronic low back pain23. A non-musculoskeletal disorder masquerading as a musculoskeletal disorder24. 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