Pediatric Chiropractic

Description:

The long-awaited third edition of Pediatric Chiropractic takes the valuable second edition to a whole new level, offering new chapters, full-color photos, illustrations, and tables to provide the family wellness chiropractor and the student of chiropractic a valuable reference manual covering all aspects of care for the pediatric and prenatal populations.

Internationally recognized authorities Claudia Anrig, DC and Gregory Plaugher, DC have invited the leaders in their fields to contribute to this precedent-setting textbook and now offer even more valuable information for the practitioner.

Table of Contents:

PART I: HISTORY

CHAPTER 1  Introduction to Chiropractic Pediatrics

PART II: PRIMUM NON NOCERE

CHAPTER 2  Patient Safety Culture: A Necessity for Chiropractic and Pediatric Health Care

CHAPTER 3  Biomechanics of the Pediatric Adjustment

PART III: FUNDAMENTALS

CHAPTER 4  The Contemporary Understanding of the Chiropractic Subluxation

CHAPTER 5  Sprain–Subluxation

CHAPTER 6  Diagnostic Imaging

CHAPTER 7  Spinal Examination and Specific Spinal and Pelvic Adjustments

CHAPTER 8  Examination and Specific Adjustments of the Extremities

PART IV: PREGNANCY

CHAPTER 9  Exercise during Pregnancy

CHAPTER 10  The Prenatal and Perinatal Period

CHAPTER 11  Chiropractic Considerations with Tethered Oral Tissue

CHAPTER 12  Chiropractic Management of Infants with Suboptimal Breastfeeding

PART V: NEUROLOGY

CHAPTER 13  Functional Neuroanatomy of the Cerebrospinal and Autonomic Nervous Systems

CHAPTER 14  Neuroimmunology

CHAPTER 15  Neurologic Examination

CHAPTER 16  Selected Neurologic and Visceral Disorders

PART VI: ORTHOPEDICS

CHAPTER 17  Scoliosis

CHAPTER 18  Orthopedics

PART VII: PRIMARY CARE

CHAPTER 19  History and Physical Assessment

CHAPTER 20  Non-accidental Injury and Child Maltreatment

CHAPTER 21  The Febrile Child

CHAPTER 22  Pediatric Nutrition

CHAPTER 23  Children in Motor Vehicle Collisions

CHAPTER 24  Wellness and Chiropractic Lifestyle

PART VIII: ADOLESCENT HEALTH

CHAPTER 25  Care of the Adolescent

CHAPTER 26  Adolescent Patients with Acute Spinal Fractures and Subluxations

PART IX: SPECIALTY PRACTICES

CHAPTER 27  Sensory Processing Disorder

CHAPTER 28  Foundations of Neurodevelopment and the Neurobiology of Disease

CHAPTER 29  Motor Disorders in Children

CHAPTER 30  The Child with Challenges

PART X: SPECIALIZED TECHNIQUES

CHAPTER 31  Sacro-occipital Technique for the Pediatric Patient

CHAPTER 32  Pediatric and Prenatal Instrument-Based Adjusting

CHAPTER 33  Use of the Drop Mechanism during the Adjusting of Children and the Pregnant Patient

CHAPTER 34  Logan Basic Technique for Pregnant Women, Infants, and Children

CHAPTER 35  Upper Cervical Care of the Pediatric Population Using Toggle Recoil Technique

CHAPTER 36  Orthospinology: A Specific Upper Cervical Approach for Pediatric Care

CHAPTER 37  Low-Force Specific Upper Cervical: Atlas Orthogonal for Infants and Children

CHAPTER 38  Craniosacral Therapy

Index