The Pocket Manual of OMT: Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment for Physicians

The West Virginia School has, over a few editions, made one of the most useful and portable books of Osteopathic Techniques available today. The approach is by body region, which is pretty much what most practitioners do, and gives the range of direct and indirect treatments for each body region. In addition, the exercises are most useful in helping patients (and sometimes the practitioners themselves) maintain the joint and muscle motion achieved by the Osteopathic treatments. Very useful, handy to carry around, well organized and documentation, especially the charts on sacral dysfunctions, are extremely useful.

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Great for the student who wants to refer to techniques on the go! I kept mine in my backpack on the wards during my third year as a reference for when I wanted to treat patients with techniques for common MSK complaints.

Very well constructed and organized to the approach to treating body segments specifically, easy to read, pictures are very informative. Only negative is the last chapter wasn't bound in my book, instead was loose-leaf and upside down and backwards, but I fixed it manually myself (after about an hour of labor)

Succinct yet detailed. The photos demonstrating the techniques are clear and extremely helpful. Fits in white coat pocket. Basically Savarese to-go.

Ordered from Amazon warehouse and everything came looking like new. No complaints

This book is simply amazing. It breaks down every region (cervicals, thoracic, lumbar, pelvis, etc) by how to diagnose somatic dysfunction and the most common treatments. Its very easy to read. A great pocket book to have in the office and during rotations. I highly recommend it. This is the BEST omt tretment/techniques book that I've seen.

Book was in excellent condition

I purchased this as an upgrade to the first edition that I have. I find the second edition photos to be poorer quality despite being the same photograph. The photos are smaller making the details of the technique more difficult to see. The new techniques are helpful, but I will reference the first edition more frequently than the second for ease of use. It is still a good reference.