Description
Bridging the gap between human physical therapy and veterinary medicine, Canine Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy, 2nd Edition provides vets, veterinary students, and human physical therapists with traditional and alternative physical therapy methods to effectively evaluate and treat dogs with various debilitating conditions. Coverage includes treatment protocols for many types of cutaneous, neurologic, and musculoskeletal injuries to facilitate a faster and more complete recovery. Key features include: – Protocols for conservative and postoperative treatment ensuring the successful healing of dogs and their return to full mobility; – six completely updated chapters on exercising dogs define the basic principles of aquatic and land-based exercise and how they may be applied to dogs, as well as how physical therapy professionals can adapt common “human” exercises to dogs; – chapters on therapeutic modalities, including therapeutic lasers, illustrate how physical therapy professionals can adapt common “human” modalities to dogs; – and new chapters keep you up to date with coverage of joint mobilization, rehabilitation of the athletic patient, biomechanics of rehabilitation, and physical therapy for wound care. 809 p.
- DarrylMillis. Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery. Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (USA).
- David Levine. UC Foundation Associate Professor of Physical Therapy, Professor and Walter M. Cline Chair of Excellence in Physical Therapy,The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN (USA).
- Publication date (reprint original edition 2014 to digital version): 2017-11.
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