Postural Assessment

Description

This title is the latest addition to the bestselling "Hands-On Guides for Therapists" series! "Postural Assessment" is a comprehensive, user-friendly guide to assessing posture, with tips that will enable you to perform your observations in a confident and competent manner. This book focuses on what posture reveals about the relationships among various body parts so that you can be better informed about whether such relationships are causing or contributing to pain or discomfort. The emphasis is on the assessment of static posture in standing and seated positions. This is the latest book by Jane Johnson in the "Hands-On Guides for Therapists" and is written for complete beginners in the use of postural assessment as an examination tool which will generate ideas about what to look for, how to identify common postural forms and how to make sense of your observations. This title is featured at sport medicine events throughout the UK and Europe. Mailing of this title is to medicine and rehabilitation professionals. E-mail marketing campaign to contacts interested in medicine and rehabilitation. This title is also featured in Human Kinetics' monthly "Academic E-Newsletter" sent to over 8,000 subscribers, and on Human Kinetics' Health & Fitness Blog.

Jane Johnson, MSc, is co-director of the London Massage Company, England. As a chartered physiotherapist and sport massage therapist, she has been carrying out postural assessments for many years. Johnson teaches postural assessment as a provider of continuing professional development (CPD) workshops for the Federation of Holistic Therapists (FHT). This experience has brought her into contact with thousands of therapists of all disciplines and helped inform her own practice. She is also a regular presenter at the annual Complementary and Massage Expo (CAM) held in the United Kingdom. Johnson is a full member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists and is registered with the Health Professions Council. A member of the Institute of Anatomical Sciences, she has a deep interest in musculoskeletal anatomy and how newly qualified therapists can be better educated in this subject. She also is interested in the relationship between emotions and posture. In her spare time, Johnson enjoys taking her dog for long walks, practicing wing chun kung fu, and visiting museums. She resides in London.