Main description:

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. This title is featured at sport medicine events throughout the UK and Europe. Mailing of this title is to medicine and rehabilitation professionals. E-mail marketing campaign to contacts interested in medicine and rehabilitation.
This title is also featured in Human Kinetics' monthly "Academic E-Newsletter" sent to over 8,000 subscribers, and on Human Kinetics' Health & Fitness Blog.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction to Postural Assessment; Chapter 2. Preparing for Postural Assessment; Chapter 3. Posterior Postural Assessment; Chapter 4. Lateral Postural Assessment; Chapter 5. Anterior Postural Assessment; Chapter 6. Seated Postural Assessment.