Musculoskeletal Key

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…

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…

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…

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…