Osteopathic medical students and faculty benefit from a uniquely practical topic this organizes osteopathic concepts and step-by-step techniques into a single comprehensive volume. This new edition consists of new, all-important updates on somatic and visceral problems, writing the osteopathic manipulative prescription, and case histories to reflect changes in the national licensing examination. The book's included method for diagnosis and treatment embraces basic osteopathic history and philosophy, osteopathic palpation and manipulation, and specific manipulative treatments and concepts. Abundant photographs demonstrate step-by-step techniques. Meticulous illustrations depict underlying anatomy.