Electrotherapy
evidence-based practice
Description
Key Features
- Evidence, evidence, evidence!
- Contributions from field leaders
- New clinical reasoning model to inform decision making
- All chapters completely revised
- New layout, breaking up what is sometimes a difficult subject into manageable chunks
- Part of the Physiotherapy Essentials series - core textbooks for both students and lecturers
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Table of Contents
Section 1: Introduction and scientific concepts
- Introduction: current concepts and clinical decision making in electrotherapy
- Electrophysical and thermal principles
- Electrical properties of tissues
- Tissue repair
- Sensory and motor nerve activation
- Physiology of pain
- Thermal effects
- Low-energy treatments: non-thermal or microthermal?
Section 2: Thermal and non-thermal modalities
9. Heat and cold application
10. Pulsed and continuous shortwave therapy
11. Low-intensity laser therapy
12. Therapeutic ultrasoundSection 3: Electrical stimulation modalities
13. Introduction to low-frequency currents
14. Neuromuscular electrical stimulation: nerve-muscle interaction
15. Neuromuscular and muscular electrical stimulation
16. Trascutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS)
17. Interferential current
18. Functional electrical stimulation
19. Electrical stimulation for enchanced wound healingSection 4: Ultrasound imaging
20. Musculoskeletal ultrasound imaging
Section 5: Contraindications, dangers and precautions
21. Guidance for the clinical use of electrophysical agents 2006
Index
Product details
- No. of pages: 416
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Churchill Livingstone 2019
- Published: February 20, 2008
- Imprint: Churchill Livingstone
- eBook ISBN: 9780702039836
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443101793