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Rely on this comprehensive, curriculum-spanning text and reference now and throughout your career! It focuses on the rehabilitation management of adult patients, integrating basic surgical, medical, and therapeutic interventions to explain how to select the most appropriate evaluation procedures, to develop rehabilitation goals, and to implement a treatment plan.

The 6th Edition has been completely revised and updated to reflect the art and science of rehabilitation practice today. Now in full-color, you’ll find a new streamlined, easy-to-reference design with even more photographs, illustrations and tables.

The bonus DVD packaged with each book features narrated, full-color videos of patients in treatment.

• Incorporates current research in basic and clinical sciences of physical therapy examination and treatment procedures.
• Features “Evidence Summary” boxes that evaluate current research on specific topics and support evidence-based practice.
• Enhances critical thinking skills with review questions and clinical case studies with suggested answers available online.
• Covers strategies for improving motor control and motor learning, neuroplasticity and intensive task oriented training, locomotor training, fall prevention, and technologies (virtual reality, body-weight support and treadmill systems, robotics, prosthetics, orthotics, wheelchairs)
• Integrates the examination procedures, goals, and interventions presented in APTA’s Guide to Physical Therapist Practice.  

1. Clinical Decision Making and Examination
   1. Clinical Decision Making
   2. Examination of Vital Signs
   3. Examination of Sensory Function
   4. Musculoskeletal Examination
   5. Examination of Motor Function: Motor Control and Motor Learning
   6. Examination of Coordination and Balance
   7. Examination of Gait
   8. Examination of Function
   9. Examination of Environmental, Home, and Work Barriers
2. Intervention Strategies for Rehabilitation
   1. Strategies to Improve Motor Function
   2. Locomotor Training
   3. Chronic Pulmonary Dysfunction
   4. Heart Disease
   5. Vascular, Lymphatic, and Integumentary Disorders
   6. Stroke
   7. Multiple Sclerosis
   8. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
   9. Parkinson’s Disease
   10. Traumatic Brain Injury
   11. Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury
   12. Vestibular Disorders
   13. Amputation
   14. Arthritis
   15. Burns
   16. Chronic Pain
   17. Psychosocial Disorders 
   18. Cognitive and Perceptual Dysfunction
   19. Neurogenic Disorders of Speech and Language
   20. Promoting Health and Wellness
3. Orthotics, Prosthetics, and Prescriptive Wheelchairs
   30. Orthotics
   31. Prosthetics
   32. The Prescriptive Wheelchair

• NEW! Now in full color!
• NEW! Narrated, full-color video clips on the DVD of patients in treatment, including the initial examination, interventions, and outcomes for a variety of the conditions commonly seen in rehabilitation settings.
• NEW! Contributions from expert clinicians.
• UPDATED! Recall questions at the end of every chapter.