Here is the only comprehensive, curriculum-spanning text for students and a key reference for practitioners! It focuses on the rehabilitation management of adult patients, integrating basic surgical, medical, and therapeutic concepts to explain how to select appropriate examination procedures and to develop treatment goals and plans. The more user friendly 5th Edition features a new, two-color design and more photographs, illustrations and tables.
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This textbook for physical therapy students provides comprehensive coverage of the rehabilitation management of adult patients. Early chapters introduce the fundamentals of patient care and clinical decision-making. Subsequent chapters describe various examination techniques and address the most common diseases, disorders, and conditions encountered in the rehabilitation setting. The final section looks at orthotics, prosthetics, and the prescriptive wheelchair. For the fifth edition, special boxed sections summarizing current research on particular topics and interventions have been added. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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