Palpatory or touch skills lie at the very core of all 'hand on' therapies. Subtlety and sensitivity of touch, and interpretation of palpatory tests, are an essential requirement of practice. This video is one of the two, the other is called "Fundamental Palpation Skills", which accompanies Chaitows book "Palpation Skills". It demonstrates palpation skills and gives you a chance to see a master at work.
Palpatory or touch skills lie at the very core of all 'hand on' therapies. Subtlety and sensitivity of touch, and interpretation of palpatory tests, are an essential requirement of practice. This video is one of the two, the other is called "Fundamental Palpation Skills", which accompanies Chaitows book "Palpation Skills". It demonstrates palpation skills and gives you a chance to see a master at work.
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Leon Chaitow ND DO is an internationally known and respected osteopathic and naturopathic practitioner and teacher of soft tissue manipulation methods of treatment. He is author of over 60 books, including a series on Advanced Soft Tissue Manipulation (Muscle Energy Techniques, Positional Release Techniques, Modern Neuromuscular Techniques) and also Palpation Skills; Cranial Manipulation: Theory and Practice; Fibromyalgia Syndrome: A Practitioner's Guide to Treatment, and many more. He is editor of the peer reviewed Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies, that offers a multidisciplinary perspective on physical methods of patient care. Leon Chaitow was for many years senior lecturer on the Therapeutic Bodywork degree courses which he helped to design at the School of Integrated Health, University of Westminster, London, where is he now an Honorary Fellow. He continues to teach and practice part-time in London, when not in Corfu, Greece where he focuses on his writing.
Leon Chaitow ND DO is an internationally known and respected osteopathic and naturopathic practitioner and teacher of soft tissue manipulation methods of treatment. He is author of over 60 books, including a series on Advanced Soft Tissue Manipulation (Muscle Energy Techniques, Positional Release Techniques, Modern Neuromuscular Techniques) and also Palpation Skills; Cranial Manipulation: Theory and Practice; Fibromyalgia Syndrome: A Practitioner's Guide to Treatment, and many more. He is editor of the peer reviewed Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies, that offers a multidisciplinary perspective on physical methods of patient care. Leon Chaitow was for many years senior lecturer on the Therapeutic Bodywork degree courses which he helped to design at the School of Integrated Health, University of Westminster, London, where is he now an Honorary Fellow. He continues to teach and practice part-time in London, when not in Corfu, Greece where he focuses on his writing.
Basic skills; tactile discrimination; manual thermal palpation; skin palpation; structural and functional palpation; subtle movement palpation; further information.
