Description

Physical medicine and rehabilitation is a medical speciality concerned with preventing, diagnosing, and treating disabling diseases, disorders, and injuries by physical means (as by the use of electrotherapy, therapeutic exercise, or pharmaceutical pain control). This book is the "gold standard" in the field of physical medicine and rehabilitation. It is the most modern and comprehensive book in the field. It can serve as both an introductory book for residents and a comprehensive reference book for practitioners. This book covers basic principles of diagnosis and management, therapeutic approaches, and the management of specific conditions, evaluation of the rehab patient, managing the rehab patient, and rehabilitation strategies and interventions. The chapters of the book include evidence-based rehabilitation; robotic therapies; emerging technologies and interventions. The language of the book is very simple. This book is presented in a user-friendly mode, aiming to meet the needs of not only the students and teachers but also professionals of this field. It consists of contributions made by international experts. This book will prove a valuable reference for practitioners, specialists, consultants, and students.