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Physical Agents: Theory and Practice, 2nd Edition
By
Barbara J. Behrens, MS, PTA, Mercer County Community College, Trenton, New Jersey.
Susan L. Michlovitz, PT, PhD, CHT, Ithaca, New York; Adjunct Associate Professor, Rehabilitation Medicine, Program in Physical Therapy, Columbia University, New York, New York.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8036-1134-4
ISBN-10: 0-8036-1134-X
274 pp.
170 line drawings, 65 photos.
Soft cover.
©2005
Available now.
$49.95
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An Instructor's Resource Disk (ITEM 1369) containing an Instructor’s Guide with teaching supplements (Therapeutic Use of Light, Therapeutic Massage), additional case studies, an image bank, and test questions is available to adopters.
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By studying all the modalities contained in this new, updated edition of Physical Agents: Theory and Practice, your students will learn how to successfully piece together thermal, mechanical, and electrical modalities with specific therapeutic goals while understanding all of the physiologic ramifications. The authors use a straightforward approach to present the material to steadily develop the clinical decision-making skills your students need to be successful practitioners. This text helps students make the connection between the modality and a comprehensive, successful treatment program.
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- New user-friendly design format, including second color and more illustrations and photos, is more engaging for students, driving them to think more critically as therapists and strengthening the concepts that are so critical to their success.
- Increased focus on functional outcomes and the reason documentation is important.
- Includes more case studies and checklists for application procedures to foster decision-making skills. Patient scenarios outline utilization of modality, and include documentation, safety features, information about the patient that would alter treatment, what should be done after the modality, and where the modality fits into the treatment plan.
- Contains updated information on patient education strategies, study charts for patients to complete, home care considerations, and suggested study ideas for groups or individuals.
- Revised to reflect the terminology of the APTA's Guide to Physical Therapist Practice
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Section I: The Concept of Adjunctive Therapies
1. Tissue Response to Injury
2. Patient Responses to Therapeutic Interventions
Section II: Thermal and Mechanical Agents
3. Therapeutic Heat & Cold
4. Therapeutic Ultrasound
5. Aquatics & Hydrotherapy
6. Soft Tissue Treatment Techniques: Traction
7. Soft Tissue Management Techniques: Edema Management
Section III: Electrical Stimulation
8. Foundations of Electrical Stimulation
9. Electrodes: Materials and Care
10. Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation
11. Electrical Stimulation for Tissue Repair
12. Pain Management with Electrical Stimulation
13. Physical Agents for Transdermal Drug Delivery: Iontophoresis and Phonophoresis
Section IV: Comprehensive Approach to Treatment
14. Integration of Physical Agents: Clinical Decision Making
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