Dunleavy and Slowik’s Therapeutic Exercise Prescription, Second Edition delivers on exactly what you need from a core therapeutic exercise text. This comprehensive resource combines theoretical concepts and practical application to give you a robust understanding of therapeutic exercise while providing tips and instructions for a resource for clinical care. Using an approachable, easy-to-follow writing style, it introduces foundational concepts, discusses how to choose the right exercises, and guides you in developing goals for treatment. Coverage also includes the examination process and specific ways to choose, monitor, and evaluate the most effective exercise. Each exercise in the text is presented with progressions to give you an understanding of how the exercise(s) may change from the initial phase of exercise prescription to the functional recovery stage. This text also uses case studies, practical discussions, and an enhanced digital version with expanded images and videos throughout included with new print purchase to provide you with a more dynamic and effective learning experience. Each chapter in the enhanced digital version has clinical review questions while interactive case-based questions use images and videos to provide practice questions in an NPTE Board-style format.
PART I: Foundations for Therapeutic Exercise Prescription 1. Introduction to Therapeutic Exercise for Rehabilitation 2. Review of Foundational Concepts 3. Relationship Between Impairments and Function 4. Examination Techniques and Evaluation 5. Exercise Prescription 6. Mobility, Trauma, and Psychologically Informed Concepts for Exercise Choice, Parameters, and Progression 7. Teaching and Learning Concepts for Exercise 8. Evaluation for Adjustment of Exercise and Outcomes