Medical Percussion History

The Birth of Percussion - Stanford Medicine 25

https://stanfordmedicine25.stanford.edu/blog/archive/2014/The-Birth-of-Percussion.html

The Birth of Percussion. October 23, 2014. It should come to no surprise to us that the invention of percussion came from the mind of a musician. Leopold …

Percussion | medicine | Britannica

https://www.britannica.com/science/percussion

percussion, in medicine, diagnostic procedure that entails striking the body directly or indirectly with short, sharp taps of a finger or, rarely, a hammer. The procedure was first …

The Birth of Percussion - The Hospitalist

https://www.the-hospitalist.org/hospitalist/article/123104/birth-percussion

April 1, 2006. Josef Leopold Auenbrugger: the inventor of percussion. Who more appropriate to discover percussion in the human form than a Viennese-trained …

A brief history of the Practice of Percussion.

https://www.antiquemed.com/percus.html

Auscultation and percussion became the cornerstones of physical examination of the chest. In 1828, John D. Goodman was commenting on a textbook of physical diagnosis …

Percussion (medicine) - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percussion_%28medicine%29

[History of chest percussion] - PubMed

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11892364/

Abstract. Although percussion of the abdomen was already known to the Greek physician Galenos (2nd century A. D.) who used it to distinguish between ascites and meteorism, …

Percussion - Medicine, Origin, Types, Uses, Advantages …

https://www.vedantu.com/biology/percussion

Percussion meaning in medical medicine is defined as a technique for determining the underlying structures of a surface and is used in clinical tests to check …

Percussion: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia

https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/002281.htm

Percussion is a method of tapping body parts with fingers, hands, or small instruments as part of a physical examination. It is done to determine: Percussion of a body part …

Percussion – Physical Examination Techniques: A Nurse’s Guide

https://pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca/ippa/chapter/percussion/

8 Percussion . Percussion involves tapping the body to elicit sounds and determining whether the sounds are appropriate for a particular organ or area of the body. Try tapping …

Percussion instrument | Definition, Types, …

https://www.britannica.com/art/percussion-instrument

percussion instrument, any musical instrument belonging to either of two groups, idiophones or membranophones. Idiophones are instruments whose …