Physical Agents: Theory and Practice

Written specifically for PTAs!Develop the clinical decision-making skills you need to be a successful PTA. This easy-to-follow approach helps you learn how to successfully relate thermal, mechanical, and electrical modalities with specific therapeutic goals while understanding all of the physiologic ramifications. Drawing from the APTA's Guide to Physical Therapist Practice, this text will enable you to make the connection between a modality and the appropriate treatment interventions as part of a comprehensive, successful physical therapy treatment program.

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Inside Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Reviewers; Preface For the Third Edition: To the Student ; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Section 1 The Concept of Adjunctive Therapies1; Chapter 1 Evidence-Based Practice With Physical Agents; Defining Evidence-Based Practice; Arguments for Using Evidence-Based Practice; The Five-Step Process for Implementing Evidence-Based Practice; Sources of Evidence; Evidence in Action; Summary; Review Questions; Chapter 2 Tissue Response to Injury; Definitions; Pain Assessment; Pain Perception; Pain Theories; Clinical Versus Experimental Pain.

Pain ManagementTissue Repair; Summary; Review Questions; Chapter 3 Patient Responses to Therapeutic Interventions; Examination, Evaluation, and Intervention; Skin (Integument) Assessment; Pain Assessment; Edema Assessment; Soft Tissue Assessment; Range-of-Motion (ROM) Assessment; Muscle Strength Assessments; Summary; Review Questions; Appendix: Pain Assessment Tool Kit; Section 2 Thermal and Mechanical Agents; Chapter 4 Therapeutic Heat and Cold; Temperature Regulation; Physical Mechanisms of Heat Exchange; Therapeutic Heat; Methods of Heat Application; Cryotherapy; Documentation; Summary.

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