Postural Assessment
$72.84
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
7 December 2011
Summary
This title is the latest addition to the bestselling “Hands-On Guides for Therapists” series! “Postural Assessment” is a comprehensive, user-friendly guide to assessing posture, with tips that will enable you to perform your observations in a confident and competent manner. This book focuses on what posture reveals about the relationships among various body parts so that you can be better informed about whether such relationships are causing or contributing to pain or discomfort. The emphasis is on the assessment of static posture in standing and seated positions. This is the latest book by Jane Johnson in the “Hands-On Guides for Therapists” and is written for complete beginners in the use of postural assessment as an examination tool which will generate ideas about what to look for, how to identify common postural forms and how to make sense of your observations.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781450400961 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1450400965 |
| Author: | Jane Johnson |
| Publisher: | Human Kinetics Publishers |
| Imprint: | Human Kinetics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 7 December 2011 |
| Weight: | 436g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 178mm x 254mm |
| Series: | Hands-On Guides for Therapists |
| Audience Age: | 18-99 |
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Jane Johnson
Jane Johnson is a physiotherapist who embraces the challenges and opportunities her profession offers. After many years working as a musculoskeletal physiotherapist in occupational health, she is now completing her PhD at Teesside University.
Her doctoral research, part-funded by the Royal College of Chiropractors, focuses on developing a valid and reliable app for measuring postural change in patients experiencing back and neck pain.
Jane is the author of six titles in the Hands-On Guides for Therapists series published by Human Kinetics:
- Postural Assessment
- Postural Correction
- Therapeutic Stretching
- Soft Tissue Release
- Deep Tissue Massage
- Soft Tissue and Trigger Point Release
Her book, Postural Assessment, has sold over 10,000 copies.
Jane is passionate about physiotherapy, particularly occupational health physiotherapy, and massage. She is dedicated to supporting individuals entering or continuing their careers in these fields.
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