The Chest - Jean-Pierre Barral

If Jean-Pierre Barral's previous works, Visceral Manipulation 1 and Visceral Manipulation 2, were about the abdominal region...

Chest
Jean-Pierre Barral

Book composed of:

• 190 pages
• 68 drawings

If Jean-Pierre Barral's previous works, Visceral Manipulation 1 and Visceral Manipulation 2, concerned the abdominal region, in The Chest the Author turns his attention to the ribcage and its contents.
Barral begins by describing the chest as an area of ​​conflicts and contrasts: in fact, if on the one hand it must protect the organs it contains, on the other it must also allow exchanges with the neck and abdomen.
Problems related to each of these two functions are the cause of most chest disorders.

This work provides detailed descriptions and illustrations of tests to identify dysfunction and treatment of non-axial joints, fascia, and viscera of this important region of the body.
Among the topics covered in the volume: global and local auscultation of the thorax, application of the complete Adson-Wright test, cervical insertions of the pleura, intrasternal tests and treatment, use of various access points to the phrenic nerve, lengthening along the direction of the coronary arteries.