Recent Advances in Physiotherapy

✍ Scribed by Cecily Partridge

• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 270
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Like Partridge: Neurological Physiotherapy: Bases of Evidence for Practice, each chapter in Recent Advances in Physiotherapy features a case report provided by a team of clinicians based on details from a real patient. This book of recent advances provides readers with a way of keeping up-to-date with recent work in the discipline of physiotherapy, based on the evidence for current practice.

✦ Table of Contents

Recent Advances in Physiotherapy......Page 4
Contents......Page 8
Contributors......Page 10
Introduction......Page 16
I Cardiorespiratory......Page 18
1 Physiotherapy and the Adult with Non-Cystic Fibrosis Bronchiectasis......Page 20
2 Coordinated Management of a Patient in ICU with Cardiorespiratory Failure......Page 32
II Surgical......Page 56
3 Abdominal Surgery: The Evidence for Physiotherapy Intervention......Page 58
III Neurological......Page 90
4 Practice and Feedback for Training Reach-to-Grasp in a Patient with Stroke......Page 92
5 Improving Walking After Stroke Using a Treadmill......Page 123
6 Treatment of the Upper Limb Following Stroke: A Critical Evaluation of Constraint Induced Movement Therapy......Page 139
IV Pain Management......Page 148
7.1 An Introduction to Current Concepts of Pain......Page 150
7.2 Non-Specific Arm Pain......Page 157
7.3 Recurrent Lumbar Pain after Failed Spinal Surgery......Page 174
V Musculoskeletal......Page 196
8 Evidence for Exercise and Self-Management Interventions for Lower Limb Osteoarthritis......Page 198
9 Using Evidence-Based Practice for Upper Extremity Musculoskeletal Disorders......Page 217
VI Orthopaedic......Page 238
10 Physiotherapy Rehabilitation Following Primary Total Knee Arthroplasty......Page 240
Index......Page 266