Physical Therapy Research Guide

This textbook represents the key, overarching resource for practitioners in the field of PM&R, and its users are fortunate to have the nation's long-time, established academic leaders and its up and coming new generation of educators as its authors.

Designed to continue to widen the breadth of the content and orthopedic and sports information to mimic that of the everyday practicing surgeon, physician, physical therapist, and athletic trainer who work in orthopedics.

This text offers insight into the complex specialty of physical medicine and rehabilitation. The field is diverse and dynamic. The book presents a practical approach to the PM&R patient, discusses common pathologies seen, and reviews complications that may present. We emphasize the clinical aspects of PM&R relying on evidence-based medicine. Diagnostic and therapeutic procedures performed by the physiatrist are reviewed, such as electrodiagnostics, musculoskeletal ultrasound, and spine and joint injections.

This book was created with the purpose of discussing a variety of medical conditions that any physiatrist, internist, family physician, orthopedist, rheumatologist, or neurologist will likely encounter in his or her medical practice.

The book offers a wide array of chapters with complete reviews of classical rehabilitation topics such as brain injury, spinal cord injury, stroke, pain management, and electrodiagnostic medicine.

This book is designed to provide the practitioner and advanced therapy student with a variety of problem-solving strategies that can be used to tailor treatment approaches to individual client needs and cognitive style. The treatment of persons with neurological disabilities requires an integrated approach involving therapies and treatment procedures used by physical, occupational, speech and language, music and recreational therapists and nurses.