Clinical Reasoning for Manual Therapists
- 1st Edition - November 4, 2003
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Authors: Mark A Jones, Darren A Rivett
- Language: English
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… Read more
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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.
* This book will provide readers with activities to improve their own clinical reasoning within their own clinical setting * Increase clinicians' awareness of the clinical reasoning process * Encourage clinicians' reflection of their own reasoning including factors that influence their reasoning, typical errors they may be making and how to promote skilled reasoning
Undergraduate and postgraduate physiotherapy students and physiotherapy clinicians; physiotherapy educators
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
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 4, 2003
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Language: English
MJ
Mark A Jones
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Lecturer, Program Director, Master of Advanced Clinical Physiotherapy,
School of Health Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, AustraliaDR
Darren A Rivett
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, School of Health Sciences, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, New South Wales, AustraliaRead Clinical Reasoning for Manual Therapists on ScienceDirect