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…
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…
Chapter 4 Burns and Plastic Surgery Introduction • Early intervention of therapy is imperative for a successful outcome in burns management. • From admission, splinting, positioning and exercises all become…
Chapter 14 E-materials Acknowledgements Acknowledgement is made to DMRC Headley Court and the Ministry of Defence. Also to Melissa Hancock for advice and guidence. Author profiles Andrew Rolls MSC BSC(Hons)…
Chapter 16 Spinal Cord Injury • Patients with a spinal cord injury (SCI) are usually managed within a specialist unit, by an interdisciplinary team. • Patients with a SCI may…
Chapter 13 E-materials Author profiles Vicki Harding PhD MCSP Vicki Harding is Research and Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist for the cognitive-behavioural pain management programme INPUT, St. Thomas’ Hospital London. Following 8…
Chapter 17 Trauma Orthopaedics Inpatients • Trauma orthopaedics does not have to be complicated. There will be many different challenges that will not be encountered in other areas of physiotherapy….
Chapter 8 E-materials Author profiles Nicola Harmer GradDipPhys MCSP Nicola has worked with adults with learning disabilities for the past 20 years in South Wales. In 2001 she became the…
Chapter 15 E-materials Author profiles Mark Clemence Mphil GradDipPhys MCSP Mark Clemence is a specialist physiotherapist working at Torbay Hospital, Devon. Mark has had 24 years working within musculoskeletal physiotherapy,…
Chapter 16 E-materials Acknowledgement The authors would like to thank Mrs Dot Tussler, Superintendent Physiotherapist at the National Spinal Injuries Centre, Stoke Mandeville Hospital for her invaluable assistance with the…
