Skip to main content

Books in Health professions

Elsevier Health Professions titles offer everything you need to launch a career in a variety of professions - from educational resources for student learning to reference titles to support everyday practice. Complete curriculum solutions support educational programs in clinical laboratory sciences, dental assisting and hygiene, massage therapy, medical assisting and billing & coding, occupational therapy, pharmacy technology, physical therapy and rehabilitation, radiologic technology, respiratory care, sonography, speech therapy, surgical technology, and veterinary assisting and technology. Content on anatomy & physiology, basic science, medical terminology, law and ethics, documentation, job readiness, and more is supplemented by program-specific titles and review and testing solutions for classroom and certification exams, making Elsevier your destination for healthcare careers.

A Clinical Guide to Chinese Herbs and Formulae

  • 1st Edition
  • February 1, 1993
  • C. Song Yu + 1 more
  • English
  • Hardback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 0 4 6 8 0 - 3
A clinical handbook for practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) that provides quick and easy reference to the selection of herbs for treatment and their action alone and in combination. This is a handbook from two eminent teachers from the Nanjing College of Traditional Chinese Medicine who have between them accumulated over 60 years of clinical practice and teaching. They emphasise how to combine herbs and differentiate between single herbs and formulae depending on the treatment strategy adopted. It contains case histories illustrating how to adapt formulae in practice.

Acupuncture and Moxibustion

  • 1st Edition
  • January 1, 1992
  • B. Auteroche + 4 more
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 0 4 5 5 6 - 1
Acupuncture and moxibustion together are the principal therapeutic method of external Chinese medicine. This is a highly illustrated guide to acupuncture and moxibustion techniques. It describes the tools of the trade and how to use them. Presentation of each needle and moxibustion technique is followed with practical advice on how to use it.

Mobilisation of the Nervous System

  • 1st Edition
  • July 1, 1991
  • David Butler
  • English
  • Hardback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 0 4 4 0 0 - 7
Describes an innovative concept of examination and treatment technique. A controversial book which broadens the horizons of manual therapy to embrace adverse tension in the nervous system. Clinical reasoning processes are associated with a new understanding of the nervous system as a dynamic continuum. He introduces new tension tests and refined versions of standard tests.

Adult Hemiplegia Evaluation and Treatment

  • 3rd Edition
  • June 30, 1990
  • Berta Bobath
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 7 5 0 6 - 0 1 6 8 - 9
This, the third edition of Berta Bobath's classic work, shows the continuation and development of treatment, while the underlying concept on which treatment was based has not changed. However, the emphasis on treatment is now more on the patient's active participation in partnership with the therapist in the holistic approach to the patient's individual problems. Moreover, treatment is no longer confined to academic exercises divorced from daily life, but makes use of familiar daily items, for example beds, tables, chairs, walls and stairs so that the patient can apply the treatment 'sessions' to daily activities.Berta Bobath has introduced some 25 per cent of new material consisting of the nature of the handicap, neurophysiological considerations, normal automatic postural reactions and abnormal postural reflex activity. In addition to the new artwork included, most of the existing artwork has been replaced. All the remaining sections have been considerably revised, updated and expanded.This new edition enables both therapy students and their teachers to increase their awareness of the problems and needs of individual patients and so increase their ability to provide the greatest possible assistance.

Play Therapy

  • 1st Edition
  • January 1, 1989
  • Virginia M. Axline
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 0 4 0 6 1 - 0
The author discusses the use of play therapy for children with behavioural, emotional or other psychological problems. The bulk of the text consists of highly readable annotated transcripts of therapeutic sessions that illustrate the principles. The transcripts are authentic and the annotations include comments on errors the therapist makes as well as positive points. No other book comes near this one for readability and clinical credibility.

Common Vertebral Joint Problems

  • 2nd Edition
  • December 19, 1988
  • Gregory P. Grieve
  • English
  • Hardback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 0 3 3 6 5 - 0
Describes the genesis, pathology, clinical features, presentation, syndromes, clinical examination, investigation procedures, treatment, prophylaxis, and surgery of common vertebral joint problems.