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Functional Soft-Tissue Examination and Treatment by Manual Methods, Third Edition

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Warren Hammer is the biggest name in soft tissue work. He is still its biggest name and pretty much considered the master in the field. The book is both intellectual and practical. He presents the purpose behind each test and assessment and the functional basis for problems. This book is "one-stop shopping" for people in manual medicine.

Dr. Hammer has written one of the best and well rounded books on soft tissue evaluation and treatment. A pioneer in the realm, he taught me many of the basics for active evaluation and his open minded approach to many different methods of treatment and evaluation has made many doctors who have read his book better at what they do and more cost effective too.

This is a must read for anybody who is serious about helping someone suffering from musculoskeletal problems

I just received my new hardbound Third Edition of this amazing book to find a sheaf of stapled pages enclosed with the book in plastic to replace p. 713-727. They are not IN the book, but loose, outside it. I didn't decide to pay for a new, updated edition to have 13 pages floating free on my bookshelf. I pay for books, already bound, so I don't have to keep track of loose pages. I found this publishing decision to be unacceptable (although I do have sympathy for the publishers, who had a tough decision to make late in the publishing process to fix someone's mistake.)
The shining star here is Amazon customer service (in whatever distant asian country they are-they're not native US English speakers and it took two tries to get any workable phone connection) who have promised to send book return information and authorization via email. (And, lo and behold, it's just arrived while I was typing this. Good work, folks.)