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Manual Therapy in Children

A comprehensive conceptual approach to the subject of manual medicine in children, linking function and structure together at different ages.

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ISBN:	0443100187 9780443100185
Publisher:	Churchill Livingstone

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Author:

Heiner MD Biedermann, Private Practitioner in conservative Orthopaedics, Cologne, GermanyMember of the European Workgroup for Manual MedicineFormerly consultant surgeon at the Surgical Department of the University of Witten-Herdecke and Schwerte Hospital, Germany

Very much evidence based with contributions by the leading practitioners in Europe.

Focuses on 4 main themes:

The basics (anatomy and physiology, neuromotor development of the first 5 years (crawling to walking), surface anatomy).

Radiology: including procedures, findings ,evaluation, biomechanics of the cervical and cranio-cervical junction, other methods.

The clinical picture including functional disorders (such as KSS syndrome), neurological and biomechanical disorders, combined therapy for children with CP, hydrocephalus, how MT fits into the framework of pediatric care

Longterm consequences of untreated functional disorders in the first year including which co-factors are important, radiological monuments of cervical stress, screening for ADD (attention deficit disorder), POS (psycho-organic syndrome), MCD (minimal cerebral damage), hereditary predisposition.

Added in February, 2005