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| Atlas of Osteopathic Techniques (Point (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins)) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Alexander S Nicholas, Evan A Nicholas
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Category: Book
List Price: $129.00 (303.68 RON)
Buy New: $92.88 (218.65 RON)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 138174
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 528
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 0781763711
Dewey Decimal Number: 615.533
EAN: 9780781763714
ASIN: 0781763711
Publication Date: May 1, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
 Good resource for manipulative medicine November 22, 2008
I am a 2nd year Osteopathic Med Student and purchaced the book b/c it was was required for the course.
The atlas contains several hundred useful techniques and what makes it nice is it provides step by step instructions for each technique with accompanying pictures that make the instructions easy to understand and memorize for exams.
This book will be a useful resource to remember many techniques throughout my career. I wish they offered it in hardcover b/c I will use it for a long time to come
 okay, but you should really wait for the next edition November 29, 2007
17 out of 20 found this review helpful
i'm a second-year D.O. student right now, and we were required to purchase this (very overpriced) book for our OMT class.
it's nice to have a full-color atlas of techniques, but the pros of this book stop there.
in nearly every lab, we are told about another omission or typographical error. not all of the techniques that we are required to learn are in the book. to make it even more confusing, the techniques are organized by type instead of region. this makes no sense since the labs are taught by region. it's much easier to understand the progression from a muscle energy technique to an HVLA technique if you don't have to flip 60-some pages and try to find the next technique. also, some of the explanations of the techniques are a bit confusing.
finally, there is no explanation for how the techniques work. there is a little blurb at the beginning of each chapter to explain some basic principles of the type of technique (e.g. for muscle energy, PIR vs reciprocal inhibition), but it would be much more helpful to explain with each technique exactly HOW it is improving the dysfunction (i.e., which m muscles or joints are being engaged)
this book has the potential to be good, but it needs to go through a few revisions first.
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