cover image - Electrotherapy, 12th Edition
ISBN: 9780443101793
Copyright: 2008
Publication Date: 02-20-2008
Page Count: 416
Imprint: Churchill Livingstone
List Price: $82.95

Electrotherapy, 12th Edition

by Tim Watson, PhD, BSc(Hons), MCSP, DipTP

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cover image - Electrotherapy, 12th Edition
ISBN: 9780443101793
Copyright: 2008
Publication Date: 02-20-2008
Page Count: 416
Imprint: Churchill Livingstone
List Price: $82.95
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    • 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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  • Section 1: Introduction and scientific concepts

    1. Introduction: current concepts and clinical decision making in electrotherapy
    2. Electrophysical and thermal principles
    3. Electrical properties of tissues
    4. Tissue repair
    5. Sensory and motor nerve activation
    6. Physiology of pain
    7. Thermal effects
    8. Low-energy treatments: non-thermal or microthermal?

    Section 2: Thermal and non-thermal modalities

    9. Heat and cold application10. Pulsed and continuous shortwave therapy11. Low-intensity laser therapy12. Therapeutic ultrasound

    Section 3: Electrical stimulation modalities

    13. Introduction to low-frequency currents14. Neuromuscular electrical stimulation: nerve-muscle interaction15. Neuromuscular and muscular electrical stimulation16. Trascutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) 17. Interferential current18. Functional electrical stimulation19. Electrical stimulation for enchanced wound healing

    Section 4: Ultrasound imaging

    20. Musculoskeletal ultrasound imaging

    Section 5: Contraindications, dangers and precautions

    21. Guidance for the clinical use of electrophysical agents 2006

    Index

  • Tim Watson, PhD, BSc(Hons), MCSP, DipTP, Professor of Physiotherapy, University of Hertfordshire, UK
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