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Primary Care for the Physical Therapist
- NEW! Updated content throughout the text reflects the current state of primary care and physical therapy practice. - NEW! New chapter on electrodiagnostic testing helps familiarize physical therapists with indications for electrodiagnostic testing and implications of test results to their clinical decision-making. - NEW! New chapter on patients with a history of trauma emphasizes the red flags that physical therapists need to recognize for timely patient referral for appropriate tests. - NEW! Updated information on how to screen and examine the healthy population enhances understanding of the foundations of practice and the role that physical therapists can fill in primary care models.
Primary Care for the Physical Therapist
Primary Care for the Physical Therapist : Examination and Triage, Second Edition, has responded to the increased role of physical therapists in primary care. Skills that many physical therapists need are directly addressed in this text. These key skills include communication and differential diagnosis skills including upper and lower quadrant screening exams, technical expertise, and clinical decision-making ability. aThe text offers a diverse array of information pertaining specifically to physical therapists' screening and triaging patients/clients, including chapters on special populations (adolescent and geriatric patients) commonly seen in examination, chapters on pharmacology imaging, and lab tests. Physical therapy students and practitioners alike will benefit from this resource which keeps them up-to-date in their field. --Page 4 de la couverture.
Examination in Physical Therapy Practice
This text provides therapists with all the necessary skills to screen patients for symptoms that may need a physician's expertise and to ensure that patients receive appropriate and timely medical care. It aims to enhance professional communication between therapists and physicians, facilitating the referral of patients from therapists to physicians.
Neurological Rehabilitation
Using a problem-solving approach based on clinical evidence, Neurological Rehabilitation, 6th Edition covers the therapeutic management of people with functional movement limitations and quality of life issues following a neurological event. It reviews basic theory and covers the latest screening and diagnostic tests, new treatments, and interventions commonly used in today's clinical practice. This edition includes the latest advances in neuroscience, adding new chapters on neuroimaging and clinical tools such as virtual reality, robotics, and gaming. Written by respected clinician and physical therapy expert Darcy Umphred, this classic neurology text provides problem-solving strategies tha...
Evidence-Based Nursing
Evidence Based Nursing is written in response to numerous requests by nurse practitioners and other graduate faculty for a nursing literature resource. This reader-friendly, accessible guide features plentiful examples from the nursing literature and the addition of specific nursing issues such as qualitative research, with direct application for clinical practice. The guide enables nurses to: frame their clinical questions in a way that will help them find the evidence to support their opinions; distinguish between strong and weak evidence; clearly understand study results; weigh the risks and benefits of management options; and apply the evidence to their individual patients to improve out...
Musculoskeletal Essentials
This book answers the call to what today's physical therapy students and clinicians are looking for when integrating the guide to physical therapist practice as it relates to the musculoskeletal system in clinical care.
Current Catalog
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
The Physical Therapist’s Guide to Women's Pelvic, Perinatal, and Reproductive Health
The Physical Therapist’s Guide to Women’s Pelvic, Perinatal, and Reproductive Health provides physical rehabilitation throughout the lifespan for women and focuses on pelvic, pregnancy, and reproductive conditions in women. This book combines scientific evidence and clinical experience to help inform practice. It includes the history and evolution of physical therapy in women's health to specific therapeutic practice. The first section provides foundations for the next sections. The second and third sections explore the role of physical therapy in pelvic health and in reproductive health. Each topic is written in an accessible manner with tables, is fully illustrated, and provides a comprehensive review. The Physical Therapist’s Guide to Women’s Pelvic, Perinatal, and Reproductive Health is key reading for physical therapists, midwives, obstetrician (OBs), medical doctors (MDs), birth workers, and allied health professionals.
Educating Physical Therapists
The Preparation for the Professions Program by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching focused on education in five professions (clergy, law, engineering, nursing, and medicine), but its influence has been felt throughout higher education and has inspired other professions to turn a critical eye to their own pedagogy. Modeled after the Carnegie Foundation’s example, Drs. Gail Jensen, Elizabeth Mostrom, Laurita Hack, Terrence Nordstrom, and Jan Gwyer began an examination of the state of physical therapist education in the United States in their study, Physical Therapist Education for the Twenty First Century (PTE-21): Innovation and Excellence in Physical Therapist Academic ...
