An Osteopathic Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment

By Eileen L. Digiovanna, Christopher J. Amen, Denise K. Burns

Book Overview

Osteopathic medical students and faculty benefit from a uniquely practical text that organizes osteopathic concepts and step-by-step techniques into a single comprehensive volume. This new edition includes new, all-important updates on somatic and visceral problems, writing the osteopathic manipulative prescription, and case histories to reflect changes in the national licensing examination. The book's integrated method for diagnosis and treatment embraces basic osteopathic history and philosophy, osteopathic palpation and manipulation, and specific manipulative treatments and concepts. Abundant photographs demonstrate step-by-step techniques. Meticulous illustrations depict underlying anatomy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0781742935
• ISBN13: 9780781742931
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: LWW
• Length: 641 Pages
• Weight: 3.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.2" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Awesome book!

Everything you need about osteopathy all in one text, from technique to examination and what the technique is achieving :) Fantastic!

excellent

this is a great training book for the doctor to be or someone who has any interest in the human body and how it fuctions.worth checking out

Excellent text

I highly recommend this text as a supplement to your OPP/OMM notes. The authors do an outstanding job in their organization and delivery of varying Osteopathic techniques.