Summary
Complete Manual Therapy: Combining Chiropractic and Physical Therapy in One Approach is the first text ever to combine the professions of chiropractic and physical therapy. Written by a chiropractor/physical therapist, the sole purpose of this book is to make the reader a more knowledgeable, more effective clinician. The practicing chiropractor will find this text offers him many techniques his physical therapy colleagues already utilize, including strain-counterstrain, myofascial release and therapeutic exercise. The practicing physical therapist will find this book equally helpful, as it presents the chiropractor's view of musculoskeletal dysfunction along with numerous techniques he/she can implement into practice. Besides presenting effective principles and techniques from both professions, Dr. Oliver also includes a new approach to manual therapy including the best of chiropractic, physical therapy, movement therapy and energy-based medicine.
About the Author
Charles A. Oliver, DC, MPT, OCS graduated from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio with his Master's in Physical Therapy. While in private practice he then obtained his Orthopedic Clinical Specialist designation from the American Physical Therapy Association. Always wanting to learn more techniques to help his patients, Dr. Oliver then earned his Doctor of Chiropractic from Parker College of Chiropractic. He is now in private practice in San Antonio, Texas where he combines "the best of both worlds" to help his patients.
