Therapeutic exercise
Subtitle: moving toward function
By: Lori Thein Brody, Carrie M. Hall
Contributors: Hall, Carrie M.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Health
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 779
ISBN-13: 9780781799577
Subjects: Exercise Therapy; Exercise therapy; Methods
Description: "Therapeutic Exercise: Moving Toward Function, Third  Edition provides a conceptual framework for learning how to make clinical decisions regarding the prescription of therapeutic exercise--from deciding which exercise(s) to teach, to how to teach them, to the dosage required for the best possible outcome. Throughout this text, readers will learn how to treat, with the use of therapeutic exercise and related interventions, the impairments that correlate to functional limitations and the disability and to work toward the most optimal function possible"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Hall's name appears first on the earlier edition.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Unit I. Foundations of Therapeutic Exercise; title: ch. 1. Introduction to Therapeutic Exercise and the Model of Functioning and Ability; title: ch. 2. Patient Management; title: ch. 3. Principles of Self-Management and Exercise Instruction; title: ch. 4. Prevention and the Promotion of Health, Wellness, and Fitness; title: Unit II. Physiologic Impairments and Therapeutic Exercise; title: ch. 5. Impaired Muscle Performance; title: ch. 6. Impaired Aerobic Capacity/Endurance; title: ch. 7. Impaired Range of Motion and Joint Mobility; title: ch. 8. Impaired Balance; title: ch. 9. Impaired Posture; title: ch. 10. Pain includes content from former; title: ch. on Fibromyalgia Syndrome and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome; title: Unit III. Special Physiologic Considerations in Therapeutic Exercise; title: ch. 11. Soft Tissue Injury in Postoperative Treatment; title: ch. 12. Therapeutic Exercise for Arthritis; title: ch. 13. Therapeutic Exercise in Obstetrics; title: Unit IV. Sample Specialties of Therapeutic Exercise Intervention; title: ch. 14. Closed Kinetic Training; title: ch. 15. Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation; title: ch. 16. Aquatic Physical Therapy; title: Unit V. Functional Approach to Therapeutic Exercise of the Lower Extremities; title: ch. 17. The Lumbopelvic Region; title: ch. 18. The Pelvic Floor; title: ch. 19. The Hip; title: ch. 20. The Knee; title: ch. 21. The Ankle/Foot; title: Unit VI. Functional Approach to Therapeutic Exercise for the Upper Extremities; title: ch. 22. The Temporomandibular Joint; title: ch. 23. The Cervical Spine; title: ch. 24. The Thoracic Spine; title: ch. 25. The Shoulder Girdle; title: ch. 26. The Elbow, Forearm, Wrist, and Hand; title: Unit VII. Case Studies.