An excellent resource for physiotherapists at all levels of training and experience, Principles of the Maitland Concept of NMSK Physiotherapy: Assessment and Management of Neuromusculoskeletal Movement Functions, 9th Edition, Volume 1, provides the clinical background needed for optimal assessment, clinical reasoning, and treatment of patients with NMSK disorders/movement functions. This thoroughly revised edition of the standard works of G. D. Maitland is edited, written, and designed for today’s clinicians and students, both as a key reference for practice and as a helpful textbook when on placements and when revising for practical exams. Contemporary viewpoints and a resource-oriented focus towards manual therapy (OMPT) practice ensure that readers are fully up to date with all that is current in the field.
Companion volume also available: Clinical Application of the Maitland Concept of NMSK Physiotherapy: Assessment and Management of Neuromusculoskeletal Movement Functions, 6th Edition, Volume 2 (ISBN: 9780702075728)
Companion volume also available: Clinical Application of the Maitland Concept of NMSK Physiotherapy: Assessment and Management of Neuromusculoskeletal Movement Functions, 6th Edition, Volume 2 (ISBN: 9780702075728)
- Provides clinical examples, an update of relevant scientific literature, and current coverage of NMSK-Physiotherapy/Manual Therapy/OMPT practice within a bio-psycho-social paradigm
- Contains case studies that are particularly useful for self-assessment and practising clinical reasoning skills
- Emphasizes the role of the therapeutic alliance and communication in overall clinical practice, placing the individual experience of patients in the center of attention
- Contains extensive chapters on communication, assessment, and management that are designed to serve both beginning and advanced clinicians as a reference for clinical practice
- Discusses various treatment approaches such as patient education, self-management, neurodynamics, dynamic movement control, aspects of self-awareness practices, and mindfulness; the selection and progression of treatment with passive movements; and contemporary perspectives on the physiotherapeutic management of pain
- Addresses the discussion about “hands on-hands off” treatment from broader perspectives on manual therapy and body concepts
- Offers personal accounts of living well with persistent pain from the perspective of both an occupational therapist and a patient advocate
- Shares the knowledge and expertise of editors Elly Hengeveld and Gertrude Bucher-Dollenz, who have been trained by G. D. Maitland and have many years of clinical experience as a physiotherapist and teacher in postgraduate manual therapy (OMPT practice), as well as a team of expert ontributing authors, many of whom are new to this edition
Table of Contents
1. Contemporary perspectives on the Maitland Concept of NMSK Physiotherapy
Gertrude Bucher-Dollenz and Elly Hengeveld
2. Clinical Reasoning: From the Maitland Concept and beyond
Elly Hengeveld
3. The therapeutic alliance and communication
Elly Hengeveld and Jason Silvernail
4. Principles of assessment
Gertrude Bucher-Dollenz and Elly Hengeveld
5. The lived experience of pain
Joletta Belton and Bronwyn LennoxThompson
6. Biomedical Screening: Unmasking Masqueraders - Peter’s Narrative
Wouter Geerse
7. Principles of treatment
Gertrude Bucher-Dollenz and Elly Hengeveld
8. Pain and neurophysiological pain mechanisms
Gertrude Bucher-Dollenz and Elly Hengeveld
