Effective and non-invasive, osteopathic techniques are being used increasingly in the treatment of children. This evidence-based, fully referenced text offers a wealth of information on the use of osteopathic techniques for pediatric disorders - from newborns to toddlers, and children to adolescents. It discusses normal development, physiology, and anatomy of the systems, and it explores conditions and diseases of childhood and the rationale for osteopathic treatment. Practical and comprehensive, it offers an osteopathic approach to understanding the development of the cranium; the interrelatedness of posture, movement, and cognition; and the process of labor and birth. It also discusses physiology, anatomy, function, and dysfunction for several areas - ophthalmology, the gastrointestinal system, the respiratory system, and otolaryngology.
Features
# Coverage is comprehensive and provides everything required for an examination, clinical evaluation, and relevant treatment.
# Content addresses an area of growing interest.
# The logical structure makes it easy to use as a textbook or a source of reference.
# Evidence-based and well referenced, it discusses clinical problems from the perspective of the interrelatedness of structure and function.
# The author is highly respected in the international community as a researcher, lecturer, and instructor of differential diagnosis.
Contents
Foreward
Preface
1. The nervous system- a clinician's perspective
2. Posture, balance, and movement
3. Movement, perception, and cognitive development
4. Development of the cranium
5. The respiratory system
6. The gastrointestinal system
7. Nociception and the neuroendocrine immune system
8. Labor, delivery, and birth
9. Otolaryngology
10. Opthalmology
11. Pulmonology
12. Gastroenterology
13. Orthopedics
14. Neurology
15. Cerebral palsy
Index
