The Pocket Manual of OMT: Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment for Physicians
The Pocket Manual of OMT is a practical, concise clinical reference for physicians and osteopathic medical students learning and using manipulative diagnosis and treatment techniques. The book’s organization by body region enables readers to select appropriate treatments for specific diseases. For each technique, the book provides indications, contraindications, a stepwise description, and a photograph. This
The Pocket Manual of OMT is a practical, concise clinical reference for physicians and osteopathic medical students learning and using manipulative diagnosis and treatment techniques. The book’s organization by body region enables readers to select appropriate treatments for specific diseases. For each technique, the book provides indications, contraindications, a stepwise description, and a photograph.
This edition presents 43 new techniques, including seated facet release and inherent motion diagnosis and treatment techniques. Updated and expanded descriptions of osteopathic principles are complemented by new illustrations and clinical correlations. Exercises that clinicians can prescribe to patients appear after the appropriate treatments.
A companion website offers the fully searchable text; online case studies with COMLEX-style multiple-choice questions for each chapter; and 250 instructional technique videos.
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Handy, useful and highly portable. The West Virginia School has, over a few editions, made one of the most useful and portable books of Osteopathic Techniques available today. The approach is by body region, which is pretty much what most practitioners do, and gives the range of direct and indirect treatments for each body region. In addition, the exercises are most useful in helping patients (and sometimes the practitioners themselves) maintain the joint and muscle motion achieved by the Osteopathic treatments. Very useful,…
good “pocket” book for OMT 0
Excellent review of Osteopathich techniques 0