Best Practices in Clinical Chiropractic

Robert Mootz. Examines clear communication and current approaches to care. Covers record keeping, history taking, and evaluating soft tissue pain. Includes reprinted information from the past five years of Topics in Clinical Chiropractic.

Articles from five years of the journal Topics in Clinical Chiropractic offer a clinical approach to topics such as record keeping, history taking, evaluating soft tissue pain, and deciding how much care is needed. Chapters are grouped in sections on primary care, optimizing practice, and special issues, with material on areas including boundary issues, headache management, and differentiating mechanical pain from visceral pain. Includes lists of Internet resources. Mootz is associate medical director for chiropractic for the State of Washington Department of Labor and Industries in Olympia, Washington. Vernon is associate dean of research and director of the Center for the Study of Spinal Health at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College in Toronto. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)