Animal Osteopathy: A comprehensive guide to the osteopathic treatment of animals and birds

This comprehensive reference textbook covers osteopathic treatment techniques for animals and birds, divided into sections for equine, general small animal, exotics, wildlife, and avian osteopathy. It provides detailed information on the differences encountered when working with animals, health and safety, working within the law, integrating with allied professions, anatomy, physiology, patho-physiology, neurology, orthopaedics, differential diagnosis, differential aetiology, supportive husbandry, and rehabilitation methods. It includes sections on approaches to patient care, case history, supporting diagnostics, observation, palpation, structuring a treatment programme, and graphically illustrated techniques. It is intended primarily for post-graduate osteopaths intending to work with animals or who are already doing so, as well as vets and other allied professions working with animals.

Format: Hardback
Length: 478 pages
Publication date: 21 January 2020
Publisher: Handspring Publishing Limited

This comprehensive reference textbook is designed for individuals using osteopathic treatment techniques with animals, birds, or studying to do so. It covers equine osteopathy, general small animal osteopathy, osteopathy for exotics, wildlife osteopathy, and avian osteopathy. Each section provides specific information related to the respective group, making it suitable for supporting structured post-graduate university validated courses. The content includes detailed sections on the differences encountered when working with animals, health and safety around different species, working within the law, integrating with allied professions, anatomy, physiology, patho-physiology, neurology, orthopaedics, differential diagnosis, differential aetiology of presenting conditions, supportive husbandry and rehabilitation methods, approaches to patient care, case history taking, use of supporting diagnostics, observation, palpation, structuring a treatment programme, and osteopathic treatment techniques and physical patient contact methods. All chapters are fully referenced and include revision notes to serve as guidelines for the reader. The book is primarily intended for post-graduate osteopaths intending to work with animals or who are already doing so, as well as vets and other allied professions working with animals.

Weight: 1318g
Dimension: 652 x 296 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781909141308