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Sports Medicine and Physical Therapy Evidence-Based Guide to Therapeutic Physical Agents |  | Item | : | 9780781721080 | | Pub Date | : | Feb 2002 | | Pages | : | 480 | | Illustrations | : | 60 | | Cover | : | Spiralbound | | Trim Size | : | 4.5" x 7.25" (11.4 x 18.4 cm) | | Author | : | Alain Y Belanger BSc, MSc, PhD, PT |
This pocket-sized handbook provides essential information on 14 of the most common therapeutic physical agents used in rehabilitation, physical medicine, and sports therapy around the world. The pocket guide includes key steps in planning, executing, and charting a safe, effective, and evidence-based therapeutic application. In a user-friendly format, this reference offers insight into the existing body of human peer-reviewed literature related to the practice of these agents. Chapters contain sections related to each agent: historical perspectives, biophysical characteristics, physiologic and therapeutic effects, considerations for application, indications, contraindications, and more.
Table Of Contents
ONE: DIRECT, PULSED AND ALTERNATING CURRENTS
- Iontophoresis
- Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation
- Interferential Current
- Microcurrent
- High Voltage Pulsed Current
- Russian Current
- Diadynamic Current
TWO: RADIO-WAVE AND LIGHT RADIATION
THREE: ACOUSTIC RADIATION
FOUR: INFRARED RADIATION
- Cryotherapy
- Thermotherapy
- Fluidotherapy
FIVE: INFRARED RADIATION AND HYDROMECHANICS
SIX: PRACTICAL GUIDELINES
- Electrical Hazards, Safety Measures and Maintenance of Line-Powered Physical Agents
- Skin Sensory Hot and Cold Discrimination Testing
- Quantitative Phyical Agent and Skin Temperature Measurement
- Temperature Ranges of Thermal Physical Agents
- Selection and Purchase of Therapeutic Physical Agents
- Equivalency Between the US and Metric Customary Units of Measurement
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