"The new book by Alon Marcus is clearly the culmination of decades of practice, study, and deep thought on the treatment of musculoskletal disorders."
-David J. Zeiger, D.O., President of American Association of Orthopaedic Medicine
"This book is a continuation of superb scholarly work. Detailed material is presented in an easy-to-read format that includes the evaluation and treatment of common conditions encountered in the practitioner's office. A must-have for anyone wishing to take their clinical skills to the next level."
-Kevin McNamee, D.C., L.Ac., Directory, California Health Institute
Customer Reviews & Comments
A lot of people give lip service to the idea of "integrative medicine" but few actually understand the term or practice it. Alon Marcus's book is truly exemplary. I have taken several classes with Dr. Marcus and his knowledge and clinical experience are vast. This is not a `cookbook' treatment manual. This is an incredible text which allows one to look at muscularskeletal dysfunction from many different angles and allows one to explore different treatment strategies from modalities. If you really want to broaden your knowledge, challenge and sharpen your diagnostic skills, and increase your clinical toolbox tenfold explore this book. Warning, this is not a layman's text. It is really dense and packed with material. It is not a book you will read straight through but continually refer back to as a reference and advisor and as a reminder of how much more there always is to learn. If you have been working in namely one discipline, (like Traditional Chinese Medicine) you will develop a whole new vocabulary, learning about what we do in Western terms and to Western practitioners a lot of the `poetry' of chinese medicine will be demystified. This book definitely encourages the practitioner to step outside of his/her box. everything from Tung-style acupuncture to orthotics, prolotherapy to Japanese acupuncture, pharmacology to herbalism, trigger point needling to osteopathic assessment. there is not another book like this.
