• 5th Ed.
• 2007
• © F. A. Davis
• Carolyn Kisner, PT, MS
• 0803615841 / 9780803615847
• Allied Health, Health Sciences, Physical Therapy

 

Description

Thoroughly revised and updated throughout, Kisner & Colby’s 5th Edition offers the most up-to-date exercise guidelines for individualizing interventions for individuals with movement disorders. Now, with even more illustrations, it encompasses all of the principles of therapeutic exercise and manual therapy. This renowned manual remains the authoritative source for exercise instruction for the therapist and for patient self management.

What's New:

• • 3 brand-new chapters: Prevention Health and Wellness, Exercises for Impaired Balance, and Peripheral Nerve Disorders and      Management.
• • More focus on Evidence boxes, as well as a continued emphasis on Management Guidelines, and spotlight on      postoperative outcomes.
• • More clinical examples and more cases studies.
• • More closely follows The Guide to Physical Therapist Practice.
• • More illustrations—including anatomical reviews, clinical photographs, and line drawings.
• • And, much more!

Key Features:

• • Superb art program, including anatomical illustrations, line drawings, photographs and radiographs.
• • Focus on Evidence boxes summarizing current literature.
• • Management Guideline boxes.
• • Pathology/Surgical Procedure and Preferred Practice Pattern tables.
• • Postsurgery Outcome boxes.
• • Clinical Examples and Case Studies with questions throughout.
• • Clinical Laboratory activities at the end of each chapter.
• • Critical Thinking and Discussion questions at the end of every chapter.

Quotes, Reviews or Testimonials

"This is one of the most comprehensive books on therapeutic exercise. The material is well written and well referenced."

--Chris Hughes, PT, PhD, OCS, CSCS (Slippery Rock University)

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