Rely on this comprehensive, curriculum-spanning text and reference now and throughout your career! It focuses on the rehabilitation management of adult patients, integrating basic surgical, medical, and therapeutic interventions to explain how to select the most appropriate evaluation procedures, to develop rehabilitation goals, and to implement a treatment plan.
The 6th Edition has been completely revised and updated to reflect the art and science of rehabilitation practice today. Now in full-color, you’ll find a new streamlined, easy-to-reference design with even more photographs, illustrations and tables.
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Over 90 minutes of narrated, full-color video clips show actual clinicians treating actual patients. You’ll see the initial examination, interventions, and outcomes for a variety of conditions commonly seen in rehabilitation settings.
Online Review Questions for every chapter so you can test yourself on what you’ve read.
KEY FEATURES
Incorporates current research in basic and clinical sciences of physical therapy examination and treatment procedures.
Features “Evidence Summary” boxes that evaluate current research on specific topics and support evidence-based practice.
Enhances critical thinking skills with review questions and clinical case studies with suggested answers available online.
Covers strategies for improving motor control and motor learning, neuroplasticity andintensive task oriented training, locomotor training, fall prevention, and technologies (virtual reality, body-weight support and treadmill systems, robotics, prosthetics, orthotics, wheelchairs)
Integrates the examination procedures, goals, and interventions presented in APTA’s Guide to Physical Therapist Practice.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Clinical Decision Making and Examination
Clinical Decision Making
Examination of Vital Signs
Examination of Sensory Function
Musculoskeletal Examination
Examination of Motor Function: Motor Control and Motor Learning
Examination of Coordination and Balance
Examination of Gait
Examination of Function
Examination of the Environment
Intervention Strategies for Rehabilitation
Strategies to Improve Motor Function
Locomotor Training
Chronic Pulmonary Dysfunction
Heart Disease
Vascular, Lymphatic, and Integumentary Disorders
Stroke
Multiple Sclerosis
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Parkinson’s Disease
Traumatic Brain Injury
Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury
Vestibular Disorders
Amputation
Arthritis
Burns
Chronic Pain
Psychosocial Disorders
Cognitive and Perceptual Dysfunction
Neurogenic Disorders of Speech and Language
Promoting Health and Wellness
Orthotics, Prosthetics, and Prescriptive Wheelchairs
Orthotics
Prosthetics
The Prescriptive Wheelchair