Chiropractic Books

It's the best atlas I've ever seen, it has clear images (sometimes, I think I'm seeing a photo, not a drawing), its "boxes" with information about muscles, etc. are very well done. And its "naming" of the organs, bones, etc. it's not as confusing as Netter's. I own Sobotta and Netter and, Sobotta, for me, simply defeats Netter in every single detail. A must have if you're a medical student.

It is an almost flawless book. I love it... If you are really passioante about medicine and are planning or actually are studying medicine you must have it... It's a real help

I am prenursing student and I love this book.The pictures are great, explanations are wonderful. This is a bible in anatomy. I have a chance to see the other anatomy books in my class but this is the best. You donot need to work on the actual bone, the book is wonderful.

With this CD-Rom you can easily learn the most important concepts of human anatomy without having to read much, it's all a visual process. Then you test yourself on the same picture. It takes no time at all to learn anatomy with Sobotta's. It's a "must have" for every "student" of any age.

Awesome!! I highly recommend Sobotta (Book/CD-ROM) whether used alone or as a supplement to Netter's Atlas of Human Anatomy. I am a physician assistant graduate student at Marquette University and I find the illustrations & references to be very useful when studying for my gross anatomy lecture & lab. Sobotta provides modern imaging diagnostics, endoscopic images, color photographs of surgical views, etc. not found in Netter's. The CD-ROM has all the plates found in the book, but gives you the option to quiz yourself which is very useful. It also allows you to display/hide markers on illustrations, also useful for study purposes. Indexs, tables etc are cross-referenced. If you are looking for a tool to help you maximize your anatomy study/review & you have easy access to a computer/laptop with a CD-ROM, get the Sobotta CD-ROM. You'll find it a great resource!!!

Simply the best text I've yet encountered on spinal anatomy. Thorough yet concise, and accurate. Drs. Cramer & Darby are to be congratulated on a superb product. I own and use the 1st (1995) edition of this text. Prior to its release, I used a combination of over six different anatomy texts and integrated their various levels of information into professional notes on spinal anatomy. I have found this text to equal or exceed those notes in all respects. Moreover, the information provided by Drs. Cramer & Darby has proven consistently reliable, unlike many other texts. I have not yet seen the 2nd edition of this text, but expect that it would continue the quality of the 1st while containing further integration of contemporary spinal research within its pages.

Basic and Clinical Anatomy of the Spine, Spinal Cord and ANS will collect no dust on your shelf. Whether you are faculty, a new student, or a practicing physician, this text is an excellent source of accurate, up-to-date information that is presented in an easy to use, quick reference, format. The exquisite detail of the numerous tables is all-inclusive and very helpful (i.e. chapter four [muscles that influence the spine] contains a 7 page layout of the name, location, origin, insertion, action, and innervation of every muscle that affects the spine). The text also contains excellent photographs and artistic renderings of all the anatomy discussed within. If you can only afford a couple texts, make this one of your purchases.

This book is very complete and gives full descriptions of the anatomy of the spine. I would recommend this book for any chiropractic students taking a class in spinal anatomy, for any osteopathic student taking gross anatomy and any physical therapy students taking anatomy classes. However, I would also recommend the following which is also sold on amazon.com:
Spinal Anatomy Study Guide: Key Review Questions and Answers by Patrick Leonardi (ISBN: 0971999600)
This study guide will definitely give you an edge on tests and prepare first year chiropractic students to know the type of questions to be ready for. If you want to pass spinal anatomy without stress and get good grades, both books are a must buy. My study group and I used both books and we all passed spinal anatomy class with at least a B in our chiropractic school.

Basic and Clinical Anatomy of the Spine, Spinal Cord, and ANS is an excellent text for both students and clinicians that specialize in the spine. As a chiropractic student, I used the first edition for my spinal anatomy class and as a National Chiropractic Board Exam review and found it to be extremely helpful.

Now I am preparing to enter my private outpatient practice and decided to pick up the 2nd edition of this text to use as a reference. I was thoroughly impressed with the new edition. The new edition offers many advantages over any other book that I have seen in the anatomical description of the spine, and the clinical application of this knowledge. I was particularly impressed with the presentation of the latest research related to the spine, the brilliant new illustrations, high resolution CT and MR images, and the new material related to the ANS (and its role in pain), intervertebral disc degeneration, and the pediatric spine. Although it isn't new, I also appreciate the red-lined sections that mark the clinically relevant information (which I think will be very helpful in the next few years as a quick review in practice).

For those who already own the first edition, I would highly recommend updating to this edition simply based on the wealth of new information that science has revealed concerning the spine and nervous system. For those who haven't experienced this book, I would recommend it for its dual use as a basic science reference and as a clinical science review. I think this book holds tremendous value for both students and practitioners (DCs, DOs, MDs, PTs, etc) that work with the spine and nervous system.

Written by DC's and PhD's at National College of Chiropractic. Red ruled sections give relevant clinical information, which is nice, and chapter 11 (pain of spinal origin)is very helpful, but it can sometimes read like stereo instructions.

Dr. Ivan Delman has written a comprehensive guide to life after opening one's practice. In this perilous time of both ever expanding responsibility and shrinking resources for health care providers, Dr. Delman has provided a resource that could significantly improve the bottom line, while maintaining extremely high ethical standards, for any health care provider who follows his advice. I heartily recommend this book to anyone who is interested in a successful and enjoyable practice experience.

Ivan Delman has written a book that was sorely needed in the chiropractic community. We learn how to help patients but often our education is lacking in the business aspects of running a practice. And we certainly get no training in how to keep a practice running beyond startup. Dr. Delman had a successful practice and now has shared his experience with us. Everything from marketing to hiring and handling employees to knowing how well you are really doing along with a host of other things is covered. I have this book on my desk and refer to it several times a week. I feel this book can help you be successful and help you stay successful in your chiropractic practice.

I have been a successful practicing chiropractor for over 30 years. It took me the first five years to understand the nuts and bolts of developing a successful practice. If I had had Dr. Delman's book, I could have cut down that to a month.

Dr. Delman has successfully covered the bulk of what I found to be true in developing my practice. This is definately a must-have for the new practitioner -- worth at least one hundred times-plus the cost of the book -- and an excellent review for the seasoned doc.

Dr. Ivan Delman has created a piece of work that will serve his colleagues in all the health care professions well, if they follow his advice. While starting a practice is very important, more so is making it work. Dr. Delman shows us just how to do that, with plans and advice and analysis techniques that will help make professional practices grow and prosper. This book should be on the shelf in every Chiropractic office, for starters.

This book was actually recommended to me by my MS Specialist. I'm SO happy he did. Too often, I think people believe everything others tell them about what something might do. This gives actual medical references about studies done with alternatives. It doesn't make bogus claims about what might cure someone. Instead, it offers sound advice about what might help or hurt your body. Not only that, it recommends what amounts of vitamins and other supplements one should take if they are going to use them. I'm a research FREAK and this is by the far the best alternative medicine book I've read. It's also the book I reference back to the most as I'm eager to see what else is possibly out there that can help with my disease.

This updated book is great for someone with MS or even if you are just interested in CAM. He explains the different methods well even if I don't always agree with everything he says.

People diagnosed with an incurable disease are too-often targets of terribly unscrupulous or questionable methods of helping or curing them. When conventional medicine cannot cure us it is, to some degree, understandable. Dr. Bowling has put together a well-researched book that briefly discusses CAMs and various therapies, including yoga, tai chi, dietary supplements, vitamins and so forth. Each is briefly described, treatment method discussed, any known scientific research is summarized, side effects noted, practical information listed, and a conclusion and additional reading sources detailed. Dr. Bowling does note that some therapies, while not proven to help those with MS, may seem to help because of the "placebo effect." If it causes no harm, why not try it? However, some of these therapies can be detrimental to those with MS and it is wise to know what those are. This is a book for those who want objective and documented information. Some will claim it is biased against CAMs or undocumented therapies, but I did not find that to be the case. I found it very helpful.

I had gotten so tired of all the internet information on MS, my brain was burned out. I had stopped reading anything on the subject for quite awhile. But, this book is worth keeping handy with its sensible and knowledgeable information. It also validates in many ways the path I had chosen to manage this horrible disease.

Dr. Deroeck gives a birds eye view of the world of chiropractics from a unique perspective. Although he is a doctor, you get the feeling that he himself had been a patient at one time. A knowledgeable man that was able to help me make an important decision concerning chiropractics.

This was an excellent explanation of what Chiropractic is about. It explains things in an easy to understand way for the general public yet is very useful for a chiropractor/chiropractic student to use to explain things in conversations or presentations. After going through graduate school you forget how to speak english, this should help.

I came across this book during a time when I was debating over whether I really wanted to become a medical doctor. This book taught me about what chiropractic truly is, and changed the course of my life forever. Prior to reading this book, I never thought chiropractic was more than a treatment for low back pain and even thought that it can be harmful.

But this book opened my mind and heart to this wonderful profession, that I am so proud to be a part of. A year after first reading this book, I completed my bachelor's degree from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. A few months later, I eagerly began my chiropractic studies at Life University in Atlanta, Georgia.

Since being in clinical practice for over 2 years, chiropractic has been everything I ever dreamed of and read about in this book.

Thanks Dr. DeRoek for a well-written and inspiring book.

Thanks a billion! I am in chiro school (National) and am so glad I did not go to medical school. I was unsure if I made the right decision because of hearing all the AMA megaphone advice on the web. If you're thinking of a career in chiropractic, definately check this out because it just may be what you want to be or exactly what you don't want. Just know the facts instead of the AMA pep rally. Do your own research and you can't go worng. Also, shadow different phyisicans - such as chiropractors (DC), osteopaths (DO), allopaths (MDs)...just do your homework. Personally, I'm learning everthing I can and then some about typical medical protocols and chiropractic protocols because I believe in holistic care which doesn't only mean cracking backs, it means having diagnostic skills equal to or better than other health disciplines.

I read this book within a week...I never read books that fast. Gevitz's writing style is highly accessible. There were a few chapters or sections where I started to glaze over only because the author explores the minute details of legislative and organizational changes within the American Osteopathic Association, the American Medical Association and other organizations that probably could've been summarized. But this doesn't really detract much from the overall strength and clarity that this book offers; along with an objective look at the history of osteopathic medicine.

best information. excellent prep for writing application essays or interviews. gives a good history. great for figuring out how to describe DOs to friends/family.

This book paints a picture on the birth and growth of osteopathic medicine in the United States. It illustrates the successes, disappointments, and the many trials that osteopathic medicine has endured since its inception. Additionally, it gives the reader an insight into the influence of the American Medical Association and M.D.'s in general. I think that this is a must read for future M.D.'s and D.O.'s alike because it provides a tremendously well written description of these physicians.

With a limited understanding of osteopathic medicine's roots, I set on a crash course to find an osteopathic medical history book similar to what a Kenneth Ludmerer's "Time to Heal" did for the history of medicine itself. And with Norman Gevitz's book, I was surely not disappointed. One would think that as a book recommended by the AOA and written by a osteopathic medical school professor, the book would be slanted. However, Gevitz does a great job at maintaining neutrality as a historian while demonstrating a certain degree of candidness, particularly about M.D./D.O. relations and the future of osteopathic medicine. Despite my ecstasy for this book, I do feel that there are certain portions of this book that can be further elaborated (reasoning behind the four-star rating). For example, I would like it if more material was included about osteopathic medicine between 1960 and today. Specifically, Gevitz seems to gloss over the political and social reverberations behind Henry Kissinger's monumental decision to admit D.O.s in the military as equals to M.D.s. Nevertheless, I thought the book was very well written and has definitely sparked an interest into one of this nation's best-kept secrets.

Hi, I'm the author, Dr. Warren I. Hammer, DC,MS. The real reason for entering this arena is to announce to Amazon that the 2nd. edition of this text is now available. The new text is twice the size of the first and filled with the latest information about examining soft tissue and treating by soft tissue methods.

Dr. Hammer is a great writer. He doesn't ignore the subluxation complex as in some texts supposenly related to chiropractic. Dr. Hammer shows how soft tissue injury is related to the subluxation. When I took the national boards of chiropractic, I used this book as one of my references for Part II section--Chiropractic Practice, and also for Part III. Little advice for taking the boards, get Souza's book, Differential Diagnosis for the Chiropractor. Also, Patrick Leonardi's study guides, National Board of Chiropractic Part II Study Guide: Key Review Questions and Answers, National Board of Chiropractic Part III Study Guide: Key Review Questions and Answers with Explanations
These study guides have questions that were excellent because they were the kind encountered on the exams. Also souza's book was very helpful for chiropractic practice and Part III. Dr. Warren's book was also on the mark for Chiropractic Practice section of part II.

As an athletic trainer at a large high school in Pennsylvania, I found this book very helpful in every day treatment of various ailments my athletes complained of. Although the process can be complex, the soft tissue treatments are very helpful and this book I have found to be a very valuable asset.

Dr. Hammer has done a marvelous job in describing and picturing the soft tissue component of the subluxation complex. As a Chiropractor, this book has been invaluable to me AND the patients who have benefitted from the knowledge I have gained from Dr. Hammer. THANK YOU, DR. HAMMER!

Principles and Practices of Chiropractic aim one unusual and still strange matter of alternative medicines, but it can obviously portrait everything from Philosophy to History and matter of Ethics and World-Based Medicine Insitutes.

It perfectly (with lots of details) shows the entire side of a non-well-known Medicine, and becomes a book, in its 3rd Edition, that could be used in Palmer Universities.

I found the Dr. Haldemans book to be a good book. Not the greatest, as certain things were a bit dated but all around an interesting read.

I have never seen such an unprofessional response as yours however. Stuffing the ballet on your referenced site for your own book (yes it was pretty obvious), not to mention the overall lack of professionalism in my opinion. No I?m not an expert in medicine but I know a bit more than you about computer/network technology I would presume.

Then again, I'm just a simpleton. I have no particular stake here one way or the next. I'm not a practicing physician. I?m not even in health care. I'm just a technology guy. (You know, a programmer in C, C++, Ada95, LISP etc.) (I also enjoy the study and design of operating systems and Artificial Intelligence applications) I know... so how DARE I question the almighty physician right?

I've also read your review of New York Chiropractic College. Very strange indeed. You would have to be blind not to find the research lab and it's millions of dollars worth of research equipment.

Odd as well that you chose to accost the tour guide with medical questions. I'm sure the tour guide was a fantastic intellectual boost for you. The Dean seemed,(from your account, I've haven't spoken with him yet), to be kinder and simply choose to give you a book and send you on your way. If I had to put up with your attitude I guess I would have done the same.

Funny as many medical doctors I've spoken with are extremely impressed with the academic rigors of NYCC's curriculum. Particularly those at Bethesda Naval Hospital, where students from New York Chiropractic College often intern. But then again what the heck would I know. I'm just a simple technology guy. What hospital do you work at again?

Tell me again about medical school. Do they still teach neat things in medical school like logic/rhetoric/debate? (They did in the military academy I attended.) If they do, then surely you realize that your statement in which you asked the Dean to? (And I am paraphrasing) ? Prove that Chiropractic is not bunk.? is asking to prove a negative. Under the rules of debate and logic, (you did take that right?) it is, of course impossible to prove a negative.

If you lack the ability to research JAMA, JMT or other peer reviewed journals that is your issue, not the Dean of the school. It sounds to me like you?re more jealous of New York Chiropractic Colleges campus than anything else.

Again please excuse me, I'm a simple technology guy, not a super-all-knowing medical doctor, any mistakes here are my own doing and no one else?s and this is just my simple opinion:

What do Chiropractors do? (A very simple question)

A: Think of the Chiropractor as a conservative health practitioner. Trained in differential diagnosis, the latest diagnostic procedures (You know similar in function to a general practitioner who really knows a lot about orthopedics). They recommend dietary changes/improvements, lifestyle recommendations, exercise if warranted, various physiotherapeutic regimens, and can do allergy work-ups, prescribe orthotics, do X-Ray, MRI, CAT or other radiological diagnostic imaging procedures, utilize multi-class LASAR modalities etc. and when appropriate, they refer to the appropriate allopathic physician (i.e. surgeon, medical specialist etc.) Often those same allopathic physicians refer patients to chiropractors.

There is much more but I digress. I don?t have room here to explain everything and I?m just a simple guy. I don?t have all the answers.

Surely someone of your obvious superior medical talent has better things to do than lambaste a complementary profession? Obviously there is much more to being a Chiropractic Physician and this is just a very simple, general overview, and you understand what I?m saying.
Maybe you don't.

Or maybe.....just maybe.... it's because you and the de-licensed Stephen Barrett (Who has lost every recent court case he's been involved in and is accused of racketeering if I read the court papers correctly) feel a certain amount of fear or envy regarding Dr. Haldemans abilities. After all, he is a triple doctorate holding DC,MD and Ph.D. degrees. You're degree was as an MD correct?
You graduated in 1945 right?

Maybe it's because you and the five or six other people in your organization (which in my opinion is full of quackery itself) seem to crave the media so much and have something to hide? I think in Psych 101 we called it Shadow Projection (to use a Jungian Term) I don't know. Actions sure speak louder than words though. I see Dr. Holdeman at many medical review panels and neurological symposiums.

Funny.... I haven't seen you at any of the neurology symposiums presenting research to contrast what Dr. Holdeman has been saying. Maybe it's because you can't.

This is an excellent book. It's a must for anyone beginning chiropractic study to know what chiropractic is all about. This book is a good reference for some portions of Chiropractic Principles for Part 2 of the National Chiropractic Boards.

Other books that I recommend for the National Boards include Handbook Clinical Care by Lawrence Wyatt
Also
National Board of Chiropractic Part II Study Guide:Key Review Questions and Answers
National Board of Chiropractic for Part III Study Guide: Key Review Questions and Answers with Explanations
Both are by Patrick Leonardi

Dr. Haldeman has written a balanced and thorough overview of the chiropractic profession. It is somewhat dated but a medical literature search will quickly bring you up to speed as he continues to publish extensively in journals such as Spine. Highly recommended if you want the basics.

Facinating book! I know the main character's fantasys revolve arround enemas, and the secondary one's arround spankings, but the whole thing revolves arround love, a very true deep human love, facinating. To put all this together with Christianities greatest sermon on love and bring it back arround to self love and family of an other wise just plain tender love story is very interesting. I was impressed with the teachers--- such care, and toughtfulness of the students in an era when paddling was mandatory in most schools is interesting as well. I rememeber a teacher like Sister Mary Francess! I enjoyed the book and recommend it.

Rabbi C.

Extremely well written in communicating the psycho-social aspects as related to body cleansing and the role of elders in the life of a child. Sister Sharon's description of the interpersonal relationships is communicated effectively in this un-talked about, and taboo, area of our lives. A refreshing message that nobody needs to change. Every caring parent should read this book.

A young woman grows, blossoms and flowers missing love meant to be part of every child's life. The gentle love she needs is expressed in other ways, giving pain instead of pleasure at the guidance of a spokesman of religion meant to teach love. That missing tenderness is found in the love of her aunt, most accutely felt when she is sick over her aunt's knee, experiencing a loving gentle enema instead of a paddling. These things confuse an otherwise typical teen in areas of love. This beginning confuses her thinking and relationships with God and man. It ends with her love story in the arms of a special man who loves his flower just as she is, a Jonquil, not a Rose, and in the light of God's love holding her baby up to a blue sky knowing God loves them all.

As she grows her innocence is twisted as all our innocences are twisted in that universal perverter of all human minds, socialization. She is born as we all are, loved and loving just as she is, a cooing happy baby. Then she changes. The light of love and knowing she is loved by God and everybody slowly dims and is replaced by the dullness of her trying to be as others wish her to be, forgetting the love that beams down through blue skys creating all life. She learns to be appart from love, cultured and be as she is told to be, a necessary thing to live through the darkness between days light. Unfortunately to be cultured often means learning to do what we are taught is right, not what we know is right. She learns to live in fear not love. She believes God is not beaming love into her, but watching behind the clouds, waiting for her to make a mistake so he can punish her.

She is taught to expect things that hurt and correct as an expression of love. They can be. Love is also expressed in things that feel good. The most gentle physical sensual touching she experiences is during her first enemas as a little girl, and far more frequent enemas after she develops Irritable Bowel Syndrome as a teenager. It is normal to enjoy and desire this. What isn't normal is missing this kind of touching and love in other areas. It should have been poured into her every day in touches, hugs and pats on the head, as it should as a part of being loved and cared for as a child, a human being, just because she is. This isn't there in her early life. She is missing knowledge and experience about life and love, then expected, as we all are, to have hopes and dreams "normal" in every way! She loves being cared for in ways that are not really "normal" --- spankings and enemas. Sharon is confused and feels guilt over this. She is a deviant, unworthy of God or anyone's love, or at least so she thinks. She is wrong.

Sometimes miracles happen, simple miracles. People enter her life who love her and help her to know that she is loved. This is a love story, a universal love story, that applies to each and every person who ever felt guilt for being human and longing to be loved as they are. Jonquils bloom again year after year if you love them as jonquils. That is what the first 195 pages are about. The last 30 pages are The Greatest Thing In The World

The Greatest Thing In The World

The Greatest Thing In The World, by Professor Henry Drummond is the great sermon of love in Christianity. It was first published and millions of copies have been sold since 1880. We are providing this entire eighteen page sermon unedited and free on line, and as part of the book, When The Jonquils Bloom Again, by Sister Sharon. When The Jonquils Bloom Again is a love story, a love story based on the type of love taught by Saint Paul and Jesus in the New Testament. Sharon has a fantasy, a fantasy that hurts no one. Enemas properly given only enhance health, and well-being. (Please see my article, How To Give An Enema. This is true of properly given enemas. It does not always apply to incorrectly given ones.) Having enemas fills her need to be loved.

Christians believe God is Love. Growing toward the example of Jesus in being Love is the focal point of Christianity. This makes her sin, only a sin, IF it separates her from experiencing God's love. In this love story she learns to love herself as God intends all of us to love ourselves and transmits that love to others as we and they are. This book is an example of love as it should be. The Greatest Thing in the World is the text book of love based on the Bible, 1st Corinthians 13. This love, the basis of Christianity, is not just limited to one religion, one people or one culture. It is a common element necessary to living in the sunlight of God's love. It is a fundamental trait of all paths to God. Understanding love through example, as in the book, or by analysis as in the sermon, is a fundamental threshold to coming to live in heaven, whether that heaven be in love and being here on earth or coming to live in the presence of the source of all love outside the bounds of time.

In owning this book, or in giving it to others, it is hoped that this love, this sunshine, this blue skyed day from half a century ago lights a dark corner with more love than was there with its reading.
A book for lovers

I am the author of this book. It is a tender love story of a young woman from birth to about 24, she is a loved child and experiences much in growing up. She marries a man she very much loves. It is a good story. I very much enjoyed writing it. There are several of the chapters posted on line for your review. To see them go to e-lovestories.

hugs

Sister Sharon

A comprehensive account of the state of play of the evidence-based management of low back pain. This book does not pretend to focus on the pathophysiology of back pain (for that, see Bogduk's 'Clinical Anatomy of the Lumbar Spine and Sacrum') but instead delivers a wealth of information on how the problems caused by back pain should be dealt with by patients, practitioners, purchasers, policy makers, politicians and the general public. A superb resource.

This book offers an excellent summary of the most current evidence about causes, prognosis, treatment and rehabilitation of back problems.
I recommend it for physicians, patients and policy makers.

The book is fascinating. Some issues discussed in this book might challenge the reader and that is the main purpose. The chapter "Back pain through history" gives an important historical perspective of the matter. "Psychologic Distress" "Beliefs about Back Pain" and "Social interactions" are of enormous importance for those who deals with "Back Care". The message is: Back pain should be a benign, self-limiting symptom and rest should be avoided. I strongly recommend this book for everyone who deals with Back Care.