RT Book, Section
A1 Wise, Christopher H.
SR Print(0)
ID 1144249232
T1 Preface
T2 Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapy: From Art to Evidence
YR 2015
FD 2015
PB F. A. Davis Company
PP New York, NY
SN 9780803614970
LK fadavispt.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1144249232
RD 2024/04/25
AB Mennell  exclaimed,  “the  human  hand  is  the  oldest  remedy  known  to  man,  and  historically,  no  date  can  be  given  for  its  inception.”1  It  has  only  been  in  recent  years,  however,  that  the  profession  of  physical  therapy  has  formally  embraced  orthopaedic  manual  physical  therapy  (OMPT)  as  an  entire  approach  to  the  management  of  musculoskeletal  dysfunction.  In  fact,  prior  to  the  early  1990s,  formal  training  in  the  art  and  science  of  OMPT  was  not  routinely  included  within  the  educational  curricula  of  physical  therapists.  Many  well-intentioned  physical  therapists  have  disregarded  the  use  of  these  strategies  within  their  clinical  practice  due  to  the  paucity  of  literature  supporting  their  veracity  or  based  in  an  honest  attempt  to  establish  distance  between  the  field  of  physical  therapy  and  other  health-related  professions.  Consequently,  a  significant  number  of  clinicians  have  spent  a  portion  of  their  careers  without  consideration  of  these  strategies  within  their  diagnostic  and  intervention  armamentarium.  It  is,  therefore,  time  for  a  more  in-depth  exposition  of  both  the  art  and  the  science  of  this  unique  and  important  area  of  specialty  practice.  The  primary  objective  of  this  text  is  to  serve  as  the  definitive  resource  on  the  principles  and  practice  of  OMPT  for  physical  therapist  students,  instructors,  clinicians,  and  researchers.