Electrotherapy, 12th Edition

• 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
• Online image bank now available! Log on to http://evolve.elsevier.com/Watson/electrotherapy and type in your unique pincode for access to over 170 downloadable images

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