Therapeutic modalities : the art and science /
Knight, Kenneth L.
Draper, David O.
Baltimore, MD : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,
c2013.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Therapeutic modalities : what they are and why they are used -- Evidence based practice -- General application procedures -- Injury record keeping -- Tissue response to injury: inflammation, swelling, and edema -- Immediate care of acute orthopedic injuries -- The healing process -- Understanding pain and its relationship to injury -- Relieving orthopedic injury pain -- Principles of heat for thermotherapy -- Superficial thermotherapy application -- Cryotherapybeyond immediate care -- Cryotherapy application for post-immediate care -- Therapeutic ultrasound principles and application -- Diathermy principles and application -- Principles of electricity for electrotherapy -- Electrotherapy application -- Therapeutic massage -- Spinal traction -- Laser and light therapy by Knight/Hopkins -- Differential application of therapeutic modalities -- Case studies using therapeutic modalities.
Physical therapy.