Amputees

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Chapter 2 Amputees Introduction • The student or novice physiotherapist may treat the ‘primary’ and/or the ‘established’ amputee. • Where there is no on-site specialist physiotherapist available for supervision and…

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Aquatic Physiotherapy

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Chapter 3 Aquatic Physiotherapy Treatment methods • The physical properties of water covered in the assessment chapter facilitate the application of treatment techniques that can be used to provide therapeutic…

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Community Paediatrics

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Chapter 5 Community Paediatrics The development of the child • A physiotherapist working in paediatrics should have an awareness of the stages that infants and young children progress through during…

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Rehabilitation

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Chapter 14 Rehabilitation Introduction • Rehabilitation has many definitions, most of which include the terms optimising function, multidisciplinary, quality of life and patient-centred (Sinclair and Dickinson 1989). • It might…

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Community Physiotherapy: Introduction

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Chapter 6 Community Physiotherapy Introduction Treatment techniques/management approach • For any treatment, as for assessment, there is the additional focus on improving function related to the patient’s needs and their…

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E-materials

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Chapter 12 E-materials Author profiles Kate Baker BSc(Hons) MCSP Kate qualified from Nottingham University School of Physiotherapy in 2003. After completing her junior rotations in Cardiff she worked as a…

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