Intended for use chiefly by non-medically qualified practitioners, particularly those working in the field of manual therapy, this book provides a clear guide through the minefield of signs and symptoms with which clients commonly present. Its aim is to help practitioners to arrive quickly and logically at the correct diagnosis and in so doing to become aware of anything which does not fit the diagnosis and so needs to be referred.

Table of Contents

Part 1 The principles and purpose of diagnosis 1.The principles of diagnosis: from black box to glass bowl; 2. The principles of drug therapy Part 2 The differential diagnosis of patients'complaints 3.Introduction; 4. Abdominal pain; 5. Anorectal pain; 6. Anxiety; 7. Backache; 8. Blackouts; 9. Bleeding from the bowel; 10. Breathlessness; 11. Bruising and easy bleeding; 12. Chest pain; 13. Clubbing; 14. Confusion and confused behaviour; 15. Constipation; 16. Cough; 17.Cyanosis; 18. Deafness sand hearing impairment; 19. Depression; 20. Diarrhea; 21. Dizziness; 22. Dysphagia; 23. Dysuria; 24. Earache; 25. Facial pain; 26. Fatigue; 27. Fever (pyrexia); 28. Flushing; 29. Genital pain or discomfort; 30. Halitosis; 31. Headache; 32. Hematemesis; 33. Hematuria; 34. Hirsutism; 35. Impotence; 36. Indigestion; 37. Itch; 38. Jaundice; 39. Joint pain; 40. Limb pain; 41. Lump; 42. Menstrual problems; 43. Pallor; 44. Palpitations; 45. Period pains; 46. Pins and needles; 47. Rash; 48. Red eye; 49. Runny nose; 50.Sore throat; 51. Swollen ankles; 52. Tremor; 53. Ulcer; 54. Unsteadiness; 55. Urinary frequency; 56. Vaginal discharge; 57. Visual impairment; 58. Vomiting; 59. Weakness; 60. Weight problems; 61. Wheeze Part 3 Clinical conditions Glossary; Index