Chiropractic Manipulative Skills

This practical text gives a step-by-step guide to a range of mobilization and manipulative skills covering the spine and pelvis. It presents the basic skills required to begin learning manipulative skills. The book covers basic areas of manipulative psychomotor skills including hand posture skills, practitioner posture, side posture positional skills and locating important spinal landmarks. Chapters on background issues such as neurophysiology and biomechanics of chiropractic techniques, and teaching and learning skills are included. The techniques are supported by references, and the manipulative procedures presented in a step-by-step format, illustrated by photographs. This book should be of interest to chiropractors both in training and practice, physicians, osteopaths and physiotherapists performing spinal manipulation.