Clinical Reasoning for Manual Therapists

Front Cover
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Back Cover
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Front Matter
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Contents
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List of Contributors
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Forward
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Preface
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Introduction
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Section 1: Principles of clinical reasoning in manual therapy
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1- Introduction to clinical reasoning
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Section 2: Clinical reasoning in action- case studies from expert manual therapists
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2- Back and bilateral leg pain in a 63-year-old woman
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3- Ongoing low back, leg and thorax troubles, with tennis elbow and headache
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4- Chronic low back pain over 13 years
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5- Unnecessary fear avoidance and physical incapacity in a 55-year-old housewife
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6- A chronic case of mechanic's elbow
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7- Chronic low back and coccygeal pain
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8- Ankle sprain in a 14-year-old girl
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9- Headache in a mature athlete
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10- Thoracic pain limiting a patient's secretarial work and sport
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11- Bilateral shoulder pain in a 16-year-old long-distance swimmer
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12- Medial collateral ligament repair in a professional ice hockey player
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13- Patellofemoral pain in a professional tennis player
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14- Self-management guided by directional preference and centralization in a patient with low back and leg pain
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15- Craniovertebral dysfunction following a motor vehicle accident
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16- A judge's fractured radius with metal fixation following an accident
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17- A university student with chronic facial pain
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18- Adolescent hip pain
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19- A software programmer and sportsman with low back pain and sciatica 
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20- An elderly woman 'trapped within her own home' by groin pain
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21- Chronic peripartum pelvic pain
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22- Acute on chronic low back pain
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23- A non-musculoskeletal disorder masquerading as a musculoskeletal disorder
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24- Forearm pain preventing leisure activities
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Section 3: Theory and development
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25- Educational theory and principles related to learning clinical reasoning
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26- Improving clinical reasoning in manual therapy
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Appendix 1- Reflective diary
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Appendix 2- Self-reflection worksheet
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Index
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