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Postural Assessment
Though postural assessment is a skill required by most therapists and useful for many health and fitness professionals, few resources offer a complete discussion of the topic to support practitioners in the task. Written for students and practitioners of massage therapy, physical therapy, osteopathy, chiropractic, sports medicine, athletic training, and fitness instruction, "Postural Assessment" is a guide to determining muscular or fascial imbalance and whether that imbalance contributes to a patient's or client's pain or dysfunction.
Jane Johnson, a practicing physiotherapist and sport massage therapist and instructor, breaks down the complex and holistic process of assessing posture into easy-to-assimilate sections. Johnson begins with a discussion of ideal posture and the factors affecting posture as well as how to provide the correct environment for postural assessment, necessary equipment, and the importance of documenting assessment findings. Then she details procedures for executing postural assessments from standing posterior, lateral, and anterior views as well as with the patient or client in a seated position.
The text features tips for improving assessment technique, and What Your Findings Mean sections provide readers--students in particular--with guidance for systematic analysis. Each chapter ends with five Quick Questions, with answers, to assist in gauging understanding of the topics covered.
Information in the text is enhanced with detailed illustrations that offer visual cues to learning postural assessment and identifying anatomical relationships. Line drawings illustrate bony landmarks used in the assessments, and numerous photos show both obvious and subtle postural variations. Reproducible illustrated postural assessment charts in the appendix provide space for recording observations during each step of the assessment.
"Postural Assessment" can assist practitioners in learning what posture reveals about the relationships among various body parts and in determining whether such relationships cause or contribute to pain or discomfort. As a resource for novices, "Postural Assessment" offers guidance in observing and identifying common postural forms and interpreting those observations.
"Postural Assessment" is part of the Hands-On Guides for Therapists series, which features specific tools for assessment and treatment that fall well within the realm of massage therapists but may be useful for other body workers, such as osteopaths and fitness instructors. The guides include full-color instructional photographs, Tips sections that aid in adjusting massage techniques, Client Talk boxes that present ideas for creatively applying techniques for various types of clients, and questions for testing knowledge and skill.
Jane Johnson, a practicing physiotherapist and sport massage therapist and instructor, breaks down the complex and holistic process of assessing posture into easy-to-assimilate sections. Johnson begins with a discussion of ideal posture and the factors affecting posture as well as how to provide the correct environment for postural assessment, necessary equipment, and the importance of documenting assessment findings. Then she details procedures for executing postural assessments from standing posterior, lateral, and anterior views as well as with the patient or client in a seated position.
The text features tips for improving assessment technique, and What Your Findings Mean sections provide readers--students in particular--with guidance for systematic analysis. Each chapter ends with five Quick Questions, with answers, to assist in gauging understanding of the topics covered.
Information in the text is enhanced with detailed illustrations that offer visual cues to learning postural assessment and identifying anatomical relationships. Line drawings illustrate bony landmarks used in the assessments, and numerous photos show both obvious and subtle postural variations. Reproducible illustrated postural assessment charts in the appendix provide space for recording observations during each step of the assessment.
"Postural Assessment" can assist practitioners in learning what posture reveals about the relationships among various body parts and in determining whether such relationships cause or contribute to pain or discomfort. As a resource for novices, "Postural Assessment" offers guidance in observing and identifying common postural forms and interpreting those observations.
"Postural Assessment" is part of the Hands-On Guides for Therapists series, which features specific tools for assessment and treatment that fall well within the realm of massage therapists but may be useful for other body workers, such as osteopaths and fitness instructors. The guides include full-color instructional photographs, Tips sections that aid in adjusting massage techniques, Client Talk boxes that present ideas for creatively applying techniques for various types of clients, and questions for testing knowledge and skill.
176 pages, Paperback
First published December 8, 2011
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February 28, 2014
Very detailed procedure on how to evaluate posture from the back, side and front of a person's body. What to look for and how to link one area's issue to another. Has nice charts in the back that you can use for assessments.
It's written for a massage/sport therapist but would be useful for anyone else who uses posture to help get ideas on how to help each person individually. Nice illustrations and photos that give examples. It would have been nice to have had a anatomical chart of the area before each section but in place of that you should grab an anatomy chart/or flash cards to get an idea of all the points referred to-- otherwise you have to keep a lot of visuals in your head.
It's written for a massage/sport therapist but would be useful for anyone else who uses posture to help get ideas on how to help each person individually. Nice illustrations and photos that give examples. It would have been nice to have had a anatomical chart of the area before each section but in place of that you should grab an anatomy chart/or flash cards to get an idea of all the points referred to-- otherwise you have to keep a lot of visuals in your head.
June 8, 2021
This is an easy to read and highly practical book for physiotherapists. It helps me to know what to look out for during standing and sitting observations as well as to link those observations to possible contributing factors during an objective assessment.
July 16, 2018
Excellent guide to postural assessment , well written and in easy to read plain english . highly recommend.
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