Evidence Based Guide to Therapeutic Physical Agents #16478

Author(s):
Alain Yvan Belanger, BSc, MSc, PhD, PT.

Summary:
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 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.

Contents

ONE: DIRECT, PULSED AND ALTERNATING CURRENTS
1. Iontophoresis
2. Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation
3. Interferential Current
4. Microcurrent
5. High Voltage Pulsed Current
6. Russian Current
7. Diadynamic Current

TWO: RADIO-WAVE AND LIGHT RADIATION
8. Shortwave Diathermy
9. Laser

THREE: ACOUSTIC RADIATION
10. Ultrasound

FOUR: INFRARED RADIATION
11. Cryotherapy
12. Thermotherapy
13. Fluidotherapy

FIVE: INFRARED RADIATION AND HYDROMECHANICS
14. Hydrotherapy

SIX: PRACTICAL GUIDELINES
15. Electrical Hazards, Safety Measures and Maintenance of Line-Powered Physical Agents
16. Skin Sensory Hot and Cold Discrimination Testing
17. Quantitative Phyical Agent and Skin Temperature Measurement
18. Temperature Ranges of Thermal Physical Agents
19. Selection and Purchase of Therapeutic Physical Agents
20. Equivalency Between the US and Metric Customary Units of Measurement

Pub Date: 01 Mar 2002
Media Type: Book
Pages: 500
Illustrations: 60