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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0397510012
• ISBN13: 9780397510016
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Length: 511 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.5" x 1.3" x 7.5"

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.