Book Description
This well-researched, richly illustrated book begins with an overview of the biomechanics of trauma. The authors demonstrate how an osteopathic-based mechanical approach to trauma can be applied to the entire body, with a special focus on the phenomenon of whiplash. From here they move on to a functional-anatomical approach, focusing on the skull and other aspects of the central nervous system, as well as the structures that surround and protect it. Finally, they view trauma from the perspective of how it affects the different tissues and systems of the body, including the osteoarticular, visceral, and vascular systems, and the various sequelae that can occur in each of these systems.
Having presented an osteopathic interpretation of trauma, the authors apply some of their own unique methods of osteopathic diagnosis, particularly with regard to those structures that are often affected by trauma: the dural tube, cranial sutures, craniofacial membranous junction, mediastinum, and spleen. The book concludes with a description of manual techniques devised by the authors to treat some of the more recalcitrant sequelae of trauma.
About the Author
Jean-Pierre Barral, D.O. (U.K.), is a graduate of the European School of Osteopathy in Maidstone, England. A well-known clinician and teacher of osteopathic manipulation, he has authored and contributed to many osteopathic textbooks. His other works in English include Visceral Manipulation, Visceral Manipulation II, The Thorax, Urogenital Manipulation, and Manual Thermal Diagnosis.
Dr. Barral is presently Academic Director of the International College of Osteopathy in Saint Etienne, France. He is also Chairman of the Department of Visceral Manipulation on the Faculty of Medicine at Paris du Nord. He has taught widely throughout Europe, the United States and Japan, and practices osteopathy in Grenoble, France.
Alain Croibier, D.O., is a graduate of the A. T. Still Academy of Osteopathy in Lyons, France. He is a member of the French Registry of Osteopaths and the French Academy of Osteopathy, and has lectured in Europe and North America. He is presently engaged in clinical practice in Meylan, France and conducts research under the auspices of the French Academy of Osteopathy.
