Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Allied Health Services - Physical Therapy

Now in its third edition, this practical clinical guide for both students and practitioners is further strengthened by the addition of online video clips which demonstrate how to apply a range of massage techniques. The text's research-base and references are fully updated, aiming to provide the reader with the most pertinent evidence to support the use of massage for particular injuries and conditions.

On the field, post-event, or in the clinic, Sports Massage is the essential resource for developing and perfecting your sports massage technique

Sports Massage provides an in-depth discussion of applications of foundational massage techniques within a sports massage approach. Thorough instructions and over 130 full-color photos demonstrate the correct application of each massage stroke for muscle groups of the neck, shoulder, torso, pelvis, legs, and feet. You'll also learn how to use advanced working positions in prone, supine, side-lying, and sitting orientations...

Clinical Mechanics and Kinesiology With Web Resource provides a solid foundation so that students of physical therapy, occupational therapy, and athletic training can understand biomechanics and functional anatomy as they relate to both normal and abnormal movement. Written by active clinicians with more than 40 combined years of clinical and teaching experience, this text is also a practical reference for rehabilitation professionals working with a range of populations and pathologies.

Taking a clinical approach not found in other texts, Clinical Mechanics and...

Now fully revised and updated, Dr. Barbara Gladson's Pharmacology for Rehabilitation Professionals, 2nd Edition, remains your best resource for understanding how various drugs affect patients during therapeutic exercise and rehabilitation. Using case studies and engaging activities, it helps you apply essential pharmacology information directly to rehabilitation practice. New chapters, a new reader-friendly design, new artwork, and more enhance the text and bring you up to date with both basic pharmacologic principles as well as the mechanism of action and side effects of drugs...

Building on the authoritative content in David J. Magee's Orthopedic Physical Assessment textbook, Orthopedic Physical Assessment Atlas and Video provides step-by-step guidance for evaluating movements and performing the most common special tests in musculoskeletal assessment. Detailed video demonstrations of tests and procedures common in musculoskeletal assessment are supplemented by hundreds of high-quality full-color clinical photographs and illustrations of each test and assessment.

Knee Injuries chart is an informative chart showing common injuries of the knee.
The central images of normal knee anatomy are finely detailed and clearly labeled.
Includes:
anterior view of a normal knee with the patella removed
oblique view of normal knee anatomy
posterior view of normal knee anatomy
detail of the meniscus
Also illustrates the following injuries:

• traumatic knee injuries - ligament tear, bone avulsion, ligament sprain, patellar dislocation
• meniscus tears - types of meniscus tears and symptoms of damaged meniscus are...

A detailed chart showing normal anatomy of the Shoulder as well as common injuries. Each illustration is clealy labeled and injuries are textually described.
Anatomy and Injuries of the Shoulder illustrates the following normal anatomy:
Anterior view showing muscles, bones, liagments, nerves, veins and arterires
Anterior view (deep Layer) of the bones, ligaments and mucsle
Posterior view, superior and lateral views of the bones of the shoulder
Detail of the right shoulder socket
Anatomy and Injuries of the Shoulder illustrates and describes the following...

Now in its Fifth Edition, this Photographic Manual of Regional Orthopaedic and Neurologic Tests describes in step-by-step fashion how to perform these tests. Each chapter begins with a decision tree of the orthopaedic examination of an anatomic area, followed by a brief description of the anatomic area, usually with an accompanying drawing. The presentation of each test begins with a clinical description and a box of clinical signs and symptoms, followed by a brief description of the procedure with a photograph demonstrating the position of the clinician and the patient. The author...

• Biomechanics of the spine involved in low back...

This handbook gives you basic information in a readily accessible format, as well as more detailed concepts that will allow you to better understand not only how the human nervous system works, but how injuries and disease affect experience and behavior, including cognitive and intellectual functions.

Cram Session in Functional Neuroanatomy: A Handbook for Students & Clinicians by Dr. Michael F. Nolan is a concise...

Fur Sie auf den Punkt gebracht, was im Fach diskutiert wird. Schwerpunktthema der HNO-Praxis heute, Band 23 ist die Halswirbelsaule: Besonderheiten der Innervation des Kopf-Hals-Bereichs, Bildgebung der Halswirbelsaule, Orthopadische Probleme im Bereich der Halswirbelsaule, Die Distorsion der Halswirbelsaule, HNO-arztliche Akutdiagnostik bei HWS-Distorsionen, Physiotherapeutische Behandlungskonzepte bei HWS-Beschwerden, Die richtige Verordnung von Krankengymnastik bei HWS-Beschwerden. Informieren Sie sich uber die Moglichkeiten der Strahlentherapie bei...