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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Very small amount of highlighting on a couple of pages so sold as good and not VG. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Musculoskeletal complaints are very common and are often neglected by traditional Western medicine. As a result many patients seek help from various “alternative and complementary” practitioners. Medical skills are best learned by apprenticeship and no book can substitute for hands-on experience. Nonethe- less I have endeavored in this book to integrate several approaches that attempt to solve the many diffi- culties one encounters when treating pain patients. It is intended for clinicians interested in integrative medicine that is combining the best of both western and oriental medicine. It is all too easy to develop a myopic perception of health and disease when one is not exposed to a variety of models of medical per- spective. Rather I believe the ability to accurately diagnose and treat musculoskeletal and soft tissue dis- ease is critically dependent on the ability to move fluently amongst medical paradigms and doing so is the mark of a superior clinician. Foundations for Integrative Musculoskeletal Medicine: An East-West Approach covers basic principles of Traditional Chinese Musculoskeletal Medicine Cyriax style Ortho- paedic Medicine as well as traditional biomedical Orthopedics Osteopathic Medicine and “Bioener- getic” Medicine. These approaches are quite diverse even antithetical in their view of pathophysiology definition of health and disease and strategy for diagnosis and treatment of those suffering from pain. Each of these methods has strengths as well as weaknesses – thus in my opinion integration often result in better outcomes. There have been many books written on these various models and approaches to muscu- loskeletal medicine. Few however attempt to integrate the body of information on the subject as well as discuss the possible limitations of each. In this text I have tried to do just that. (OS)