Instant Access to Chiropractic Guidelines and Protocols

"Thumb through this one-of-a-kind pocket reference and you'll find key facts on everything from diagnostic criteria to standardized treatment goals, management guidelines and protocols, nutritional management protocols, home care protocols, referral protocols, and more."--BOOK JACKET.

The thoroughly updated Second Edition of this Spiral(R) Manual provides concise, accessible information on the full spectrum of clinical problems in primary care. Written from the family physician's perspective, the book emphasizes ambulatory care, plus pertinent hospital-based and home-based health problems. Throughout all chapters, the focus is on disease prevention and health maintenance.Topics include frequently encountered diagnostic challenges such as amenorrhea and fatigue, management of common disorders such as diabetes mellitus and hypertension, and selected procedures such as obstetric ultrasound and nasolaryngoscopy. This edition includes three new chapters on valvular heart disease, sexual assault, and pain management. LWW/Medcases Case Companion on-line review tool for this title, click http://www.medcases.com/lippincott

This essential clinical companion provides quick access to a wealth of information on effectively managing common womens health issues. It offers just the right level of coverage for health professionals, with concise, user-friendly protocols for diagnosing and treating a wide range of conditions. This book also explores alternative natural treatment options such as physical therapy, nutrition, herbs, chiropractic, and naturopathic therapies.

Healthcare decision makers in search of reliable information that compares health interventions increasingly turn to systematic reviews for the best summary of the evidence. Systematic reviews identify, select, assess, and synthesize the findings of similar but separate studies, and can help clarify what is known and not known about the potential benefits and harms of drugs, devices, and other healthcare services. Systematic reviews can be helpful for clinicians who want to integrate research findings into their daily practices, for patients to make well-informed choices about their own care, for professional medical societies and other organizations that develop clinical practice guidelines. Too often systematic reviews are of uncertain or poor quality. There are no universally accepted standards for developing systematic reviews leading to variability in how conflicts of interest and biases are handled, how evidence is appraised, and the overall scientific rigor of the process. In Finding What Works in Health Care the Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommends 21 standards for developing high-quality systematic reviews of comparative effectiveness research. The standards address the entire systematic review process from the initial steps of formulating the topic and building the review team to producing a detailed final report that synthesizes what the evidence shows and where knowledge gaps remain. Finding What Works in Health Care also proposes a framework for improving the quality of the science underpinning systematic reviews. This book will serve as a vital resource for both sponsors and producers of systematic reviews of comparative effectiveness research.

A concise, quick-access handbook that covers the more common conditions seen in a chiropractic practice. A handy reference that provides a library of practical information in a single volume!

This textbook, with available video purchase, was intended to aid the busy manual care practitioner (chiropractic physician, athletic trainer, physical therapist, etc.) in the diagnosis and management of the most commonly presenting spinal conditions in the manual therapy setting. This book bridges the gap between lengthy and often expensive and difficult to understand research articles, and extensive, all-encompassing textbooks. The reader will find an easy-to-read, information packed text, offering a more complete quick-reference tool. Orthopedic tests, neurological tests, and some functional testing are covered, complete with statistics. An emphasis is placed on cluster testing, in an effort to make the most accurate diagnoses, as efficiently as possible. Each condition includes detailed evidence-based treatment. The reader will notice a multimodal conservative treatment approach, as well as descriptions of common medical interventions. Mastery of this text will prepare the practitioner to offer the latest and most-effective diagnoses and treatment strategies in conservative neuromusculoskeletal healthcare.