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Manual Therapy for Voice and Swallowing - A Person-Centered Approach

by Walt Fritz

A collaborative framework for manual therapy

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A collaborative framework for manual therapy

Walt Fritz presents manual therapy for voice, swallowing, breathing, and related concerns through a person-centered model of shared decision-making. The client’s responses and choices help shape the clinician’s questions, actions, and use of touch, challenging more clinician-directed, anatomy-based treatment approaches. Alongside this framework, the book covers evaluation guidelines, conditions considered suitable for manual therapy, and detailed interventions. Step-by-step images accompany the practical material, linking the book’s discussion of clinical approach with its treatment guidance.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Speech-language and other clinicians working with voice, swallowing, breathing, or oral-motor concerns
  • Practitioners interested in shared decision-making in manual therapy
  • Readers seeking illustrated evaluation and intervention guidance

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Person-centered careShared clinical decision-makingManual therapyVoice and swallowing treatment

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Book overview

At the heart of this new book is a departure from the norm of expert clinician directing anatomically-based and traditional treatment regimes. Instead, Walt Fritz presents a scenario wherein the client, as an equal, is leading the clinician, through responses to questions, to behaviors, and to touch.

This shared decision-making approach questions and challenges existing manual therapy practice and in the words of the Author, aims to '...introduce to you an updated mechanism of action to explain MT effects and then turn to intervention. If you are currently using MT in your practice for voice, swallowing, breathing, oral-motor, or other related issues, the material presented here may challenge what you've been taught...'

Eminently practical and profusely illustrated with clear, step-by-step images and text, the Author presents evaluation guidelines, conditions that lend themselves to manual therapy, along with specific and in-depth interventions.

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