Spinal Manual Therapy: An Introduction to Soft Tissue Mobilization, Spinal Manipulation, Therapeutic and Home Exercise

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Summary: It is exactly what it is!!!
Review: We all know how difficult it is to find a good book that cuts right to the chase, puts it in easily understandable terminology and can truly teach you. For the PT student has even a slight interest in manual therapy, this is a great introductory text.

It cites clinical research to back up the interventions that are prescribed. I had the privilige of taking a class with the author, a truly wonderful professor and I highly recommend his text to anyone who wants to be a part of manual theraoy practice.

It has cases in the back of the text to test your knowledge of how well you have absorbed previously learned material in other classes and challenges your ability to be a solid clinician.

The text is broken up into clearly defined sections and covers the assessment, what are the most common deviations to see, problems that may arise in a specific area, soft tissue interventions, and therapeutic exercise to augment your treatment.

I won't spoil anymore, like I said, I highly recommend it.