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The Geriatric Patient
Plan realistic and effective treatments for your elderly patients with a more thorough understanding of their needs and the ailments that commonly afflict them. The compelling presence of geriatric patients in occupational therapy practice has led professionals from a wide variety of health care specialties to address some of the conditions more commonly encountered in clinical practice. The Geriatric Patient is an enlightening volume that highlights assessment and treatment techniques for mental and physical ailments and explores typical attitudes held toward aged people and aging by health care professionals that can have serious implications for the care provided to elderly persons. A number of practical topics are discussed--the assessment of nutritional status and needs of geriatric patients; the care of patients suffering from a variety of physical and mental ailments, such as osteoporosis, herpes zoster, balance problems, and Alzheimer's disease; and general approaches to the care of the aging patient.
Common Disorders of the Hip
Physical therapists and related health professionals will find in this volume an invaluable and comprehensive overview on such topics as anatomy, biomechanics, medical evaluation, epidemiology, surgery, and preoperative and postoperative physical therapy.
Advances in Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation
Enhance your rehabilitation program with this authoritative volume. Experts from the Department of Physical Therapy of Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, explore the most current developments in cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation. Reading this highly practical volume will provide you with insight into the current status and future trends of pulmonary rehabilitation, supply you with rationale and supporting data for physiological and psychological mechanisms that seem to influence the pulmonary rehabilitation process, and illustrate the successes of both a hospital-based and a community-based pulmonary rehabilitation program. Valuable chapters on the physical therapy interventions required by and designed for coronary bypass surgery patients and heart transplantation patients will offer you additional useful information. Advances in Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation is an ideal resource for professionals, including physical therapists, who are or who wish to become, involved in the care of patients with cardiac or chronic pulmonary disorders.
Physical Therapy and the Arthritis Patient
Up-to-the-minute drug therapies, medical and surgical options, and physical therapy evaluations and treatments for arthritis are featured in this useful new reference. Sufferers of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis--two of the most widely diagnosed articular disorders encountered by health care professionals--are often left disabled and require close medical supervision. The contributors to this timely book--a physical therapist, a physician, a surgeon, and a clinical pharmacist, all of whom work closely with arthritis patients--examine the pathology and clinical features of the disease as well as report on successful and innovative management techniques.
Physical Therapy and the Stroke Patient
This important new book focuses on the subject of cerebrovascular accidents. All physical therapists will benefit from this comprehensive examination of the pathologic and clinical features of common ischemic and hemorrhagic disorders that may culminate in the familiar signs and symptoms of stroke. The symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment alternatives available in the care of stroke patients are discussed. Each chapter thoroughly addresses various challenges in the management of stroke patients who are commonly encountered in hospitals, nursing homes, and rehabilitation settings, giving the reader an appreciation of the variability of involvement among stroke patients. The authors present illustrated case studies emphasizing common clinical situations in which stroke occurs and discuss the medical and surgical approaches to stroke management, including risks and complications which may occur following a stroke. Other issues include the factors underlying strength deficits in stroke patients, methods for measuring motor deficits, and causes, evaluation, and treatment of the hemiplegic shoulder.
Physical Therapy and the Pulmonary Patient
Devoted to the assessment and treatment of the patient with respiratory dysfunction, this comprehensive volume explores the use of health manpower in the care of patients, chest assessment, physical therapy and respiratory care of the patient with spinal cord injury, care of the pediatric pulmonary patient, and more.
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