Therapeutic Exercise: Exercise Techniques for Patients with Common Orthopedic Condition

By Doug Creighton

The primary purpose of this text book is to assist entry-level students. Students seeking advanced clinical competencies in orthopedic manual physical therapy will also find that this text offers a nice review of basic exercise concepts and many creative exercises that even seasoned therapists may not have considered. While the title of this book relates to patients with impairments and functional limitations associated to common orthopedic conditions, many of the exercises shown in this text can assist patients in other practice settings as well.The exercises within this text are seek to reduce pain, and facilitate, not retard tissue healing by modifying speed of therapeutic motion, arc of therapeutic motion and providing assistance or partial assistance to joint movements when necessary. Further, the exercises shown within this text seek to enhance muscular strength, soft tissue mobility and human locomotion without significant provocation of symptoms or damage to joint cartilage and other sensitive joint tissues.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1622493591
• ISBN13: 9781622493593
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: The Educational Publisher / Biblio Publishing
• Length: 406 Pages
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.5" x 11.0"