Allied Health

Physical therapy students, physical therapists, and medical students.

This text is designed to aid physical therapists in the clinical decision-making process as it pertains to the choice and progression of exercise procedures. The book is thoroughly up-to-date, reflecting new strategies in clinical decision making and serves as an aid to physical therapists in the selection of appropriate exercise procedures. Intervention strategies describe the complex nature of differential diagnosis, physical therapy assessment, and functional treatment planning. Pedagogy further develops concepts and terms used to facilitate identification of similarities among different treatment approaches.

• Framework of clinical practice—Directs proper selection of appropriate exercise procedures.

• Empirical principles and rules—Introduced at beginning of chapters and italicized for identification.

• Exemplifies documentation of a patient treatment in various stages of recovery.

• Chapter on evaluation—Discusses the assessment of various systems.

• Assists therapist in developing a foundation for evaluation and intervention paradigm.

• At-home exercise program plans—Conveniently located to facilitate photocopying.

• Pedagogy includes Summary, Review Questions, Problems, Clinical Perspective Cases, Glossary.

 1. Framework (A Framework of Clinical Practice).


 2. Activities.


 3. Technique.


 4. Evaluation.


 5. Shoulder.


 6. Knee.


 7. Low Back.


 8. Spinal Cord Injury.


 9. Geriatric (The Framework of Practice Applied to the Elder Individual).


10. Hemiplegia.

Therapeutic Exercise (Physical Therapy)

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