Now in it's fourth edition, "Physiotherapy for Respiratory and Cardiac Problems" continues to be an essential textbook and reference source for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and for the clinician working with patients with cardiac and respiratory problems. Its strengths lie in integrating the evidence with clinical practice and in covering the whole patient lifespan - infants, children, adolescents and adults. 'A comprehensive, up-to-date text covering a wide range of topics. An essential textbook for students and practitioners in the field of cardiorespiratory care' - "Journal of the Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists". '[Thanks] to the combination of evidence based information and easy reading. I feel that this book is one of the must have texts for all physiotherapists with an interest in respiratory or cardiac problems' - "The Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Respiratory Care Newsletter". 'Now in its fourth edition this text is a must for all physiotherapy students. The chapters are well laid out, and all of the information is explained in an easily understandable way. This new edition provides the most up to date information for clinical practice from paediatrics through to the elderly. Chapter six is particularly useful, it provides the reader with case studies and then works through a logical way of problem solving along with introducing the reader to specific outcome measures. All in all a must have text!' - Laura Culpan, Physiotherapy student, University of Bradford.

Das Standardwerk fur Therapeuten behandelt Erkrankungen und Verletzungen der Hande. In Band 2 (aufbauend auf den Grundlagen-Kapiteln in Band 1) werden alle Fragen in Bezug auf Verletzungsmechanismen und -folgen, zu geeigneten Therapiemoglichkeiten und zur handtherapeutischen Behandlungsplanung und durchfuhrung beantwortet. Die Autorin vermittelt reichhaltiges Praxis-Know-how zur Befundung und Behandlung. Das Lehrbuch und Nachschlagewerk wurde fur die Neuauflage auf 3 Bande erweitert, komplett uberarbeitet und aktualisiert."

Straight-forward, straight-shooting truth about what it takes to stay clean and sober for alcoholics and addicts and the people who love them. If you want to get into recovery and stay there, Bocchieri's experiences will show the way.

Now completely updated with the latest information on both adult and pediatric patients, this comprehensive book provides a link between the pathophysiology of neurologic deficits and possible rehabilitation interventions for improving movement outcomes. It introduces the structure and function of the nervous system and describes normal motor development, motor control and motor learning, pathophysiology of the nervous system and common treatment techniques used in physical therapy practice. This edition also features updated terminology from the "APTA's Guide to Physical Therapist Practice", as well as new chapters on proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF) and other neurological conditions seen in the adult. Helpful learning aids and abundant illustrations highlight key concepts and help readers quickly master the material.

A comprehensive resource for focusing on returning injured athletes to their optimal performance! This book discusses exercise principles; muscle fatigue, muscle damage, and overtraining concepts; pathophysiology of overuse injuries; core evaluation in sports-specific testing; physiological basis of exercise specific to sport; and special considerations for the athlete. Secial features such as evidence-based clinical application boxes provide the reader with a solid body of research upon which to base their practice. Aligned to the Guide to Physical Therapy Practice to help learn how to work with athletes' injuries and help them make a physical comeback while following best practices. Incorporation of muscle physiology demonstrates it as the basis for athlete's exercise prescription. Coverage of pathophysiology of overuse injuries illustrates the damage to the musculoskeletal system. Inclusion of treatment and training approaches for athletic rehabilitation shows how to restore the musculoskeletal system back to full flexibility, strength, power, and endurance. Evidence-based clinical application boxes found throughout the book cite key studies and provide real-world application to a clinical setting. Extensive photographs show hands-on demonstrations of important rehabilitation techniques, helping the cinician to accurately apply them during treatment.

This unique text provides students and clinicians with a means of improving their clinical judgment and problem-solving skills. By comparing their own management strategies to those provided in the text, readers will gain knowledge of effective interventions and advance a step further in their pursuit of clinical expertise. Content utilizing current terminology reflects trends in current practice and familiarizes readers with the structure of the Guide to Physical Therpist Practice, 2nd Edition. The real-life examples expose students to a range of both unusual and familiar clinical experiences they might not face in their studies, as well as enabling current clinicians to learn from their colleagues' experiences. Input from both a clinician and a professor provides a nice blend of clinical experience and educational insight. All cases are new, 46 in all, compiled from real-life scenarios experienced by physical therapy practitioners. Content includes more detailed information in areas such as patients, personal histories, culture, environment, and lifestyle. New topics encompass a broad range of issues, including documentation, women's health, clinical education, ethics, and assistive technology. Evidence-based examples and additional references meet the curriculum standards for physical therapy education. Pedagogical features, such as learning objectives, guiding questions, photos and illustrations, make the reference useful in the educational setting. In response to the guidelines featured in the Guide, cases are now formatted to follow elements of patient/client management, including physical therapy diagnoses stated as preferred practice patterns.

This expanded edition offers updated information and the addition of 100 new photos and line drawings. An expanded alphabetical index of 800 splints provides a photographic key to all splints mentioned in the book. Updated information includes the basic concepts and principles of splint design and the importance of communication for creating effective splinting techniques. New information includes history of hand splinting, splints acting on the elbow and shoulder, and splinting paediatric patients, workers, musicians, athletes, and spastic patients.

This new edition represents collaboration among orthopaedists, physical therapists, and athletic trainers. It reviews the rehabilitation needs for all types of sports injuries, stressing the treatment of the entire kinetic chain with various exercises. Chapters have been extensively revised, featuring new concepts and techniques. The 3rd edition of "Physical Rehabilitation of the Injured Athlete" includes new chapters including Proprioception and Neuromuscular Control (Chapter 8), Cervical Spine Rehabilitation (Chapter 16), Functional Training and Advanced Rehabilitation (Chapter 10), and Plyometrics (Chapter 11), with new contributors and new features, such as summary boxes and tables.

This is a comprehensive review manual designed to prepare physical therapist assistant students for the National Physical Therapist Assistant Exam (NPTAE). With questions similar in style to the National Exam, reflecting the current scenario format, all content has been researched by the authors for accuracy and relevance.

This essential core textbook for the early phase of a physical therapy program takes a global approach to the profession, focusing on both practice specialties, as well as practice settings, populations served, and essential issues such as specialization, relations with complementary health professionals, and education.

FEATURES

* Uses terminology based on APTAs new Guide to Physical Therapist Practice

* Examines special audiences, including pediatric, geriatric, orthopedic, and neurologic

* Written by a single author for a uniform and cohesive presentation

* Includes the full text of the Model Practice Act for Physical Therapy

F.M. Alexander developed the Alexander Technique of movement in the early 20th century. Combining vocal clarity and body movement, Alexander developed a performance coaching method that is used by dancers, actors, singers, etc. In The Actor and the Alexander Technique, Kelly McEvenue writes the first basic book about how this unique technique can help actors feel more natural on the stage. She provides warm-up exercises, "balance" and "center" exercises, spatial awareness exercises. She talks about imitation, the use of masks, nudity on the stage, dealing with injury and aging. She talks about specific productions that have successfully used the Alexander Technique, such as "The Lion King". With a foreword by Patsy Rodenburg of our own phenomenal The Actor Speaks this is a book that belongs on the shelf of every working and studying actor.

Clinical Guide to Positional Release Therapy With Web Resource provides professionals in the sports medicine and therapy fields with an easy-to-read reference on the clinical application of positional release therapy (PRT). The book is an invaluable resource for those who desire to learn, practice, and perfect the art of PRT to gently treat patients of all ages who have acute and chronic somatic dysfunction, including tightness and pain. Author Timothy E. Speicher, president of the Positional Release Therapy Institute, uses contemporary science and evidence-based practice to provide health care practitioners-including athletic trainers, physical therapists, massage therapists, and chiropractors-with a manual of PRT treatment techniques. The text is also suitable for students enrolled in upper-level courses in athletic training, physical therapy, and massage therapy programs. The highly visual book is organized in a manner that enables the reader to acquire a foundation of the applications, procedures, and theory of PRT. Part I explores the research surrounding PRT, providing articles that support the use of PRT through evidence-based practice. Readers will consider special populations, such as elderly patients, competitive athletes, and patients with disabilities. Part II explores PRT techniques by anatomical area. Each region (lower quarter, pelvis, spine, upper quarter, and cranium) contains an overview of common injury conditions and their myofascial triggers, differential diagnoses, and instructions on palpating and treating specific anatomical structures. Each chapter in part II also contains self-treatment techniques where appropriate. Clinical Guide to Positional Release Therapy dedicates considerable attention to palpation instruction, a core skill that enables successful diagnoses and applications of many orthopedic assessments and therapeutic techniques. Readers also will gain knowledge of anatomical and kinesiological structures to ensure success in assessment. Application of adjunctive therapies, such as ultrasound, electronic stimulation, massage, joint stabilization, and therapeutic exercise, is provided throughout the text to complement PRT and facilitate an optimal healing environment. Clinical Guide to Positional Release Therapy includes more than 400 full-color photos and illustrations. The unique layout of the book displays the anatomy, palpation, and treatment techniques in one or two pages, making the techniques visually easy for practitioners and students to follow and put into practice. In addition, scanning charts listing structures and mapping of the anatomical areas specific to the chapter content appear at the end of each chapter. The text is supplemented by a web resource featuring 61 videos demonstrating various PRT techniques described in the book. The most common conditions and the techniques used to treat them are detailed, and Dr. Speicher provides advice about adapting the techniques to other conditions and muscle groups. The supplemental videos can be accessed online. Whether students are just being introduced to PRT or medical professionals are already seasoned practitioners, Clinical Guide to Positional Release Therapy will assist them in using PRT in a simplified and structured manner to improve patient outcomes.

Learn active and passive movement testing from the most comprehensive resource available on the subject:

* Highly visual lab manual style presentation with 440 illustrations

* Follows the Guide to Physical Therapy Practice

* Complete discussion of most active and passive movement testing procedures for all areas of the body

* Covers the loose-pack position (LPP) for all necessary movement assessments

* Includes evaluation techniques for the extremities, the spine, pelvis, and temporomandibular joint

* Text details the principles of mobilization for treatment intervention, based on physiologic and accessory movements

Rehabilitation professionals who work with survivors of traumatic brain injuries or other conditions resulting in disabilities can use Acceptance Groups for Survivors, a Facilitator's Guide. Based on the life experience of brain-injury survivor, this group program helps survivors begin recovery.

Designed to provide the reader with an up-to-date knowledge and understanding of the most commonly-used agents in the field of electrotherapy, this text provides safe and appropriate information on the application of treatments. The inclusion of a free CD ROM provides the opportunity to practice the "application" of treatments in a safe situation. The information presented here will enable those working in the field of electrotherapy to provide safe and effective delivery of electrotherapy to their patients.

Eine Lasion des peripheren oder zentralen Nervensystems kann zu neuropathischen Schmerzen fuhren. Dabei kommt es entweder zu anhaltenden Schmerzen oder einschiessenden Schmerzattacken. Auch sind spezielle Schmerzreaktionsmuster wie Allodynie oder Hyperpathie bzw. eine zentrale Sensibilisierung moglich. Klinische Krankheitsbilder, die mit neuropathischen Schmerzen einhergehen, sind u.a. Polyneuropathien, Zoster-Neuralgien, sowie zentrale Schmerzsyndrome. Das Buch beginnt mit der Darstellung des Erscheinungsbildes neuropathischer Schmerzen, das zweite Hauptkapitel umfasst die allgemeinen Therapiemoglichkeiten (besonders medikamentose Therapie). Schliesslich werden die klinischen Krankheitsbilder und die passende Therapieempfehlung angefuhrt. Das Buch stellt auf wissenschaftlicher Basis, aber sehr praxisorientiert das Gesamtbild neuropathischer Schmerzen dar, beginnend bei der Schmerzsymptomatik, uber das klinische Krankheitsbild bis zu den relevanten "evidence based" Therapiemassnahmen. Der Kaufer kann einerseits schwierige Sachverhalte nachlesen (umfangreiches Literaturverzeichnis) und andererseits das Buch als therapeutisches Nachschlagwerk verwenden."

Now you can achieve lasting relief from your aches, pains, and illness by unlocking the healing energies already present within your body quickly and easily, with the help of the centuries-old secrets of reflex message. Completely revised and updated, Hand Reflexology guides you step-by-step through the simple finger-pressure techniques that send soothing relief surging to the sources of pain and discomfort. This modern health classic helps you access the reflex centers where pain begins, and shows you how to make it disappear with a touch of a finger all without resorting to expensive drugs, difficult therapies or invasive surgery. You ll also learn how to apply these health-restoring therapies to other adults, small children, even pets. Presented in clear, easy-to-understand language and accompanied by over 100 new illustrations, these techniques have long been proven effective in relieving a wide variety of ailments and conditions."

In this ground-breaking collection, leading experts in the field address the problems of parents, intervenors, and professionals who work with people who have been deafblind since birth or from a very early age. Individuals who are congenitally deafblind face the same challenges as those who become deafblind later in life, but they have not had the same opportunity to develop the communications skills and a conceptual base needed to construct an understanding of the world. The contributors address identification of deafblindness, planning and intervention, development, family support, and education. Just as McInnes and Treffry's "Deafblind Infants and Children" helped to change the approach to and the perception of deafblind children, this collection will assist in fostering a new approach to the education of and support for older children, youth and adults who are deafblind. An essential part of this process is to set forth standards for program development, implementation, and evaluation, which this volume aims to accomplish. It will make an essential contribution to the expanding field of services for the deafblind population of all ages, and to the improved understanding of parents, family members, and professionals who support them.

Exploring the Buddhist/Taoist concept of non-doing and intention in relation to bodywork, this book focuses on how the therapist should approach their client without agenda and meet them where they are at. This requires the therapist to pay attention to their own surfacing intentions and leave assumptions behind so they may focus on simply 'being', which is a profoundly active, non-reactive expression of presence, rather than a passive state of resignation. The ramifications of sub-conscious doing and wilful intention can negatively impact expressions of health and so the author explains how therapists may skilfully navigate between intention, attention and embodied non-doing whilst treating clients, and how this creates the foundations for safe relational touch.

Das Krankheitsbild des flexiblen kindlich-jugendlichen Knickplattfusses wird in seiner Abgrenzung zur physiologischen Fusssenkung im Kleinkindes- und fruhen Schulalter sowie mit UEberlegungen zur Spatprognose dargestellt. Differentialdiagnostik, Pathomorphologie und bildgebende Diagnostik zur Quantifizierung des Fehlstellungsausmasses werden naher erlautert. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf der Indikation zur operativen Behandlung und der Differentialindikation. Im Lebensalter von etwa 9 bis 12 Jahren kann eine minimalinvasive Arthrorise durch Calcaneostop-Schraube oder Sinus-tarsi-Implantat als wachstumslenkende Massnahme in schweren Fallen empfohlen werden. Bei alteren Patienten kommt eine Tarsale Triple Osteotomie oder auch die Kombination von Arthrorise und Osteotomien in Betracht. Verkurzungen des M. gastrocnemius bedurften haufig der intramuskularen Verlangerung.

Menschen mit Zwangsstoerungen besser verstehen! Dieses Buch richtet sich an das interprofessionelle Therapieteam von Menschen mit Zwangsstoerungen und hilft Betroffene besser zu verstehen und gezielter zu unterstutzen. Durch konkrete Fallbeispiele und in leicht verstandlicher Sprache bietet die Autorin eine Einfuhrung in das komplexe Thema Zwangsstoerung. Dabei liegt der Schwerpunkt nicht auf der Ursachenforschung der Erkrankung, sondern auf der Gefuhlswelt der Betroffenen. Es geht darum den Blick fur die Bedurfnisse zu scharfen und empathisch zu reagieren und zu helfen.

This manual allows the user to detect the development of different motor skills during the first year of life and shows how specific motor components build the foundation for babies to achieve developmental milestones. It also refers to the indications of possible disturbances that may occur in motor development to help in treatment. The manual aims to enable the user to gain a wider perspective of motor skill acquistion that also considers maturation, behaviour, kinesiology, learning and goal direction, environment, biomechanics and perception.