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Manual Therapy for Musculoskeletal Pain Syndromes

an evidence- and clinical-informed approach

  • 1st Edition - April 28, 2015
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: César Fernández-de-las-Peñas, Joshua Cleland, Jan Dommerholt
  • Language: English

A pioneering, one-stop manual which harvests the best proven approaches from physiotherapy research and practice to assist the busy clinician in real-life screening, diagnosis an… Read more

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A pioneering, one-stop manual which harvests the best proven approaches from physiotherapy research and practice to assist the busy clinician in real-life screening, diagnosis and management of patients with musculoskeletal pain across the whole body. Led by an experienced editorial team, the chapter authors have integrated both their clinical experience and expertise with reasoning based on a neurophysiologic rationale with the most updated evidence.

The textbook is divided into eleven sections, covering the top evidence-informed techniques in massage, trigger points, neural muscle energy, manipulations, dry needling, myofascial release, therapeutic exercise and psychological approaches. In the General Introduction, several authors review the epidemiology of upper and lower extremity pain syndromes and the process of taking a comprehensive history in patients affected by pain. In Chapter 5, the basic principles of the physical examination are covered, while Chapter 6 places the field of manual therapy within the context of contemporary pain neurosciences and therapeutic neuroscience education.

For the remaining sections, the textbook alternates between the upper and lower quadrants. Sections 2 and 3 provide state-of-the-art updates on mechanical neck pain, whiplash, thoracic outlet syndrome, myelopathy, radiculopathy, peri-partum pelvic pain, joint mobilizations and manipulations and therapeutic exercises, among others. Sections 4 to 9 review pertinent and updated aspects of the shoulder, hip, elbow, knee, the wrist and hand, and finally the ankle and foot. The last two sections of the book are devoted to muscle referred pain and neurodynamics.

Key features

  • The only one-stop manual detailing examination and treatment of the most commonly seen pain syndromes supported by accurate scientific and clinical data
  • Over 800 illustrations demonstrating examination procedures and techniques
  • Led by an expert editorial team and contributed by internationally-renowned researchers, educators and clinicians
  • Covers epidemiology and history-taking
  • Highly practical with a constant clinical emphasis

Table of contents

PART 1: GENERAL INTRODUCTION

1. Epidemiology of upper extremity pain syndromes
Louise Thwaites and Karen Walker-Bone

2. Epidemiology of lower extremity pain syndromes

Adam Goode and Sean Rundell

3. History taking

Peter A. Huijbregts

4. History taking for patients with lower extremity syndromes

Megan Burrowbridge Donaldson and Kristina Averell

5. Physical examination

Shane Koppenhaver, Timothy Flynn and Jennifer Crane

6. Treating the brain in chronic pain

Adriaan Louw

7. Mechanical diagnosis and therapy for the spine: McKenzie method

Stephen May and Richard Rosedale

8. Mechanical diagnosis and therapy for the extremity: McKenzie method

Stephen May and Grant Richard Burges Watson

PART 2: CERVICOTHORACIC SPINE IN UPPER EXTREMITY PAIN SYNDROMES

9. Mechanical neck pain

Bryan S. Dennison and Michael H. Leal

10. Whiplash-associated disorders

Michele Sterling

11. Differential diagnosis and treatment of cervical myelopathy, cervical radiculopathy and cervical myeloradiculopathy

Chad Cook and Amy Cook

12. Thoracic outlet syndrome

Susan W. Stralka

13. Thoracic spine manipulation

William Egan, Paul E. Glynn and Joshua A. Cleland

14. Joint mobilization and manipulation of the cervical spine

John R. Krauss, Douglas S. Creighton, Joshua A. Cleland and César Fernández-de-las-Peñas

15. Therapeutic exercise for mechanical neck pain

Carol Kennedy

PART 3: LUMBAR SPINE PAIN SYNDROMES

16. Mechanical low back pain

Scott Burns, Edward Foresman, Stephenie Kraycsir, and Joshua A. Cleland

17. Lumbar radiculopathy

Chad Cook and Mark Wilhelm

18. Lumbar spine instability

Bryan S. Dennison and Michael Leal

19. Lumbar spine in lower extremity pain syndromes

Scott Burns, Paul E. Glynn, Edgar Savidge and Joshua A. Cleland

20. The contribution of the pelvic floor muscles to pelvic pain

Ruth Lovegrove Jones

21. Chronic low back pain

Mark D. Bishop, Joel E. Bialosky and Charles W. Gay

22. Joint mobilization and manipulation of the lumbar spine

Emilio J. Puentedura

23. Therapeutic exercise for mechanical low back pain

Carol Kennedy and Lenerdene Levesque

24. Sacroiliac joint as source of pain: diagnosis and management

Kenneth E. Learman

PART 4: THE SHOULDER REGION IN UPPER EXTREMITY PAIN SYNDROMES

25. Acromioclavicular joint

Janette W. Powell, Ian Shrier, Peter A. Huijbregts

26. Sternoclavicular joint

Erland Pettman

27. Rotator cuff lesions shoulder impingement

Peter A Huijbregts and Carel Bron

28. Glenohumeral instability

Steven C. Allen, Russell S. VanderWilde and Peter A. Huijbregts

29. Superior labrum anterior-to-posterior (SLAP) lesions

Janette W. Powell and Peter A. Huijbregts

30. Frozen shoulder

Carel Bron, Arthur de Gast and Jo L. M. Franssen

31. Joint mobilization of the shoulder

Wayne Hing, Jack Miller and César Fernández-de-las-Peñas

32. Motor control of the shoulder region

Mary E. Magarey, Mark A. Jones and Samuel R. Baida

33. Therapeutic exercises for the shoulder region

Johnson McEvoy, Kieran O’Sullivan and Carel Bron

PART 5: THE HIP REGION IN LOWER EXTREMITY PAIN SYNDROMES

34. Hip osteoarthritis

Alexis A. Wright

35. Other hip disorders: muscle, labrum and bursa

John Dewitt and David Kohlrieser

36. Postoperative management of hip disorders

Robert C. Manske and Erik Meira

37. Joint mobilization and manipulation of the hip

Jack Miller and Wayne Hing

38. Therapeutic exercises for the lower quadrant

Carol Kennedy and Lenerdene Levesque

PART 6: THE ELBOW REGION IN UPPER EXTREMITY PAIN SYNDROMES

39. Elbow tendinopathy: lateral epicondylalgia

Bill Vicenzino

40. Other elbow disorders: elbow instability, arthritic conditions

Chris A. Sebelski

41. Joint mobilization and manipulation of the elbow

Helen Slater and César Fernández-de-las-Peñas

PART 7: THE KNEE REGION IN LOWER EXTREMITY PAIN SYNDROMES

42. Ligamentous and meniscal injuries of the knee

Carol A. Courtney and Craig P. Hensley

43. Knee osteoarthritis

Lars Arendt-Nielsen and César Fernández-de-las-Peñas

44. Patellofemoral pain syndrome

Johnson McEvoy and Caroline MacManus

45. Postoperative management of the knee: ligamentous, meniscal and total joint replacement

Jodi Young and Ellen Pong

46. Joint mobilization and manipulation of the knee

Cody Weisbach, William Egan, Paul E. Glynn and Joshua A. Cleland

47. Tendinopathy for the knee

Ellen Pong

PART 8: THE WRIST AND HAND REGIONS IN UPPER EXTREMITY PAIN SYNDROMES

48. Tendinopathies of the wrist and hand

C. Joseph Yelvington and Ellen Pong

49. Carpal instability

Ellen Pong

50. Carpal tunnel syndrome

Luca Padua, Daniele Coraci and César Fernández-de-las-Peñas

51. Other entrapment neuropathies

Joy C. MacDermid and David M. Walton

52. Joint mobilization and manipulation

Peter A. Huijbregts, Freddy M. Kaltenborn and Traudi Baldauf Kaltenborn

53. Finger and thumb pathology

Joy C. MacDermid, Ruby Grewal and B. Jane Freure

PART 9: THE FOOT AND ANKLE IN LOWER EXTREMITY PAIN SYNDROMES

54. Ankle sprains

Thomas Denninger and Gary Austin

55. Plantar heel pain

Matthew P. Cotchett

56. Postoperative management of foot and ankle disorders 623

Stephanie Albin, Mark W. Cornwall and Thomas G. McPoil

57. Manipulation of the foot and ankle

William Egan, Wayne Hing, Jack Miller and Joshua A. Cleland

58. Tendinopathy for the foot and ankle

Ellen Pong

PART 10: SOFT TISSUES IN THE UPPER AND LOWER QUADRANT

59. Referred pain from myofascial trigger points

César Fernández-de-las-Peñas, Hong-You Ge, Lars Arendt-Nielsen and Jan Dommerholt

60. Manual treatment of myofascial trigger points

César Fernández-de-las-Peñas, Jaime Salom-Moreno, Hong-You Ge and Jan Dommerholt

61. Dry needling of trigger points

Jan Dommerholt and Erik H. Wijtmans

62. Muscle energy approaches

Gary Fryer

63. Myofascial induction approaches

Andrzej Pilat

PART 11: NEURODYNAMICS IN THE UPPER AND LOWER QUADRANTS

64. Peripheral nerve mechanisms of chronic upper limb pain: nerve dynamics, inflammation and neurophysiology

Jane Greening and Andrew Dilley

65. Clinical neurodynamics in the upper and lower quadrants

Emilio J. Puentedura, Paul E. Mintken and Adriaan Louw

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: May 28, 2015
  • Language: English

About the editors

CF

César Fernández-de-las-Peñas

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of PT, OT, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain

JC

Joshua Cleland

Joshua Cleland, PT, DPT, PhD, Professor, Physical Therapy Program, Franklin Pierce University, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Franklin Pierce University, Physical Therapy Program, Manchester, NH, USA

JD

Jan Dommerholt

Dr Dommerholt is a physiotherapist and Diplomate of the Academy for Integrative Pain Management. He owns two physical therapy clinics in Maryland specializing in the management of individuals with chronic pain conditions including myofascial pain. In addition, Dr Dommerholt is owner of Myopain Seminars, a post-graduate continuing education company offering a wide variety of myofascial pain courses, dry needling courses, TMD and pelvic pain management courses, among others.
Affiliations and expertise
Myopain Seminars, LLC, Bethesda, MD, USA; Bethesda Physiocare, Inc, Bethesda, MD, USA