O'Sullivan & Schmitz's Physical Rehabilitation

• • Select the most appropriate evaluation procedures
• • Develop patient goals
• • Implement your plan of care

Rely on this comprehensive, curriculum-spanning text and reference now and throughout your career! You’ll find everything you need to know about the rehabilitation management of adult patients… from integrating basic surgical, medical, and therapeutic interventions to how to select the most appropriate evaluation procedures, develop rehabilitation goals, and implement a treatment plan.

Key Features:

• • Features more than 60 narrated, full-color video clips of patients in treatment, including the initial examination, interventions, and outcomes for a variety of the conditions commonly seen in rehabilitation settings.
• • Incorporates current research in basic and clinical sciences with physical therapy assessments and treatment procedures.
• • Includes “Evidence Summary” tables in most chapters which evaluate current research on specific topics and support evidence-based practice.
• • Enhances critical-thinking skills with open-ended clinical case studies.
• • Covers strategies for fall prevention, virtual reality rehabilitation, body-weight treadmill training, and upper extremity amputations and prosthetics.
• • Integrates the goals, examination procedures, and interventions of the APTA’s Guide to Physical Therapist Practice and aligns to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability & Health (ICF) model of the World Health Organization.

New to this Edition:

• • New! Six, interactive, immersive video case study modules online mirror the real-world in which you will practice.
        o View full-color videos of the patient-therapist interaction, download intake forms and an ICF template, answer guiding questions, plan, document, and evaluate care, and conduct follow-up examinations.
        o Answer end-of-module questions that address key elements in developing and implementing the plan of care for each patient.
        o Assess your progress with self-grading functionality.
        o Review feedback from expert clinicians who explain why certain tests and interventions were performed.
• • Updated & Revised! The latest basic and applied research reflects the field’s continuing evolution to guide and inform evidence-based assessments and treatment procedures.
• • New & Enhanced! More user-friendly design features new illustrations and photographs, including examples of imaging, along with expanded discussions of modalities.