Patient education and wellness : a handbook for manual therapists / Jennifer R. Jamison.

Edinburgh : Churchill Livingstone Elsevier, [2010], ©2010.

xi, 362 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references.

A health care system in crisis -- Canvassing solutions -- Integration of wellness principles into chiropractic practice in the United States -- Self-care : the mindset -- Communication : first line wellness intervention -- Self-care : a framework for action -- Safe self-care -- Strategies for promoting self-care -- Healthy dietary choices -- Spinal health -- Sleep hygiene -- Exercise -- Sexual health -- Mental fitness -- Substance abuse -- Smoking -- Alcohol -- Stress -- Accidents -- Environmental risk exposure -- Hypertension : a red flag for strokes -- Hyperlipidemia : a red flag for heart attacks -- Abdominal obesity : red flag for type II diabetes -- Osteopenia : red flag for fractures -- Preventing cancer : red flags and risky choices.