Pathology: Implications for the Physical Therapist / Edition 4

by Catherine Cavallaro Kellogg MBA, PT, CBP, Kenda S. Fuller PT, NCS

Overview

Understand how a patient’s conditions might affect physical therapy and outcomes so that you can design safe and effective interventions. The only pathology textbook written specifically for physical therapists, Pathology: Implications for the Physical Therapist, Third Edition, offers guidelines, precautions, and contraindications for interventions with patients who have musculoskeletal or neuromuscular problems as well as other conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, or pancreatitis. Learn about the cause of these conditions, the pathogenesis, medical diagnosis and treatment, and most importantly, the special implications for the therapist. In addition to addressing specific diseases and conditions, this text emphasizes health promotion and disease prevention strategies and covers issues with implications for physical therapy management, such as injury, inflammation, and healing; the lymphatic system; and biopsychosocial–spiritual impacts on health care. With this practical and evidence-based text, now enhanced with full-color illustrations and the latest research, you’ll know what to factor into your clinical decisions to achieve the best outcomes for your patients.

• Incorporates the Medical Model, the Disablement Model, and the ICF Model
• Incorporates Preferred Practice Patterns from the Guide to Physical Therapist Practice, Second Edition throughout the text
• Presents key information in at-a-glance format that is organized by body system for easy reference
• Provides the basic science information and the clinical implications of disease within the rehabilitation process, covering common illnesses and diseases, adverse effects of drugs, organ transplantation, laboratory values, and much more
• Focuses on health promotion and disease prevention throughout
• “Special Implications for the Therapist” sections present the most likely practice patterns associated with each disease or disorder and address precautions, contraindications, and considerations specific to PTs.
• Current information on conditions, medical testing and treatment, and practice models keeps you up-to-date on the latest research findings and recent changes in the field.
• Companion Evolve site provides easy access to articles referenced in the text with links to Medline.
• Tables and text boxes throughout the text summarize important information and highlight key points.

• Full color interior design, photos, and illustrations
• Chapter on Behavioral, Social, and Environmental Factors Contributing to Disease and Dysfunction includes clinical models of health, variations in client populations, and lifestyle factors that are important to consider when treating a patient.
• “A Therapist’s Thoughts” offers personal and clinical insights from experienced therapists specializing in cystic fibrosis, lymphedema, and psychological problems.
• Now covers the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF), a model that includes the level of participation in desired activities as a criterion for establishing status and goals
• UPDATED! Evidence-based content with over 6,000 references
• EXPANDED chapter on the lymphatic system features additional sections on lymphatic diseases plus exercise guidelines, education, and a home program for patients with a compromised lymphatic system.
• UPDATED chapter on lab values features new information on potassium levels and exercise, albumin levels related to nutrition and wound healing, and coagulation studies in relation to exercise.
• EXPANDED chapter on Psychosocial–Spiritual Impact on Health Care offers new information on fear avoidance behaviors, substance abuse, malingering, personality disorders, abuse, eating disorders, and the impact of nonphysical trauma to health and disease as well as combat trauma, torture, and the effects of war.
• Appendix B: Guidelines for Activity and Exercise includes updated information on aquatic physical therapy from leaders in the field, emphasizing precautions and contraindications for this modality.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781455745913
Publisher:	Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date:	12/10/2014
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	1800
Product dimensions:	11.00(w) x 8.60(h) x 2.70(d)

Table of Contents

SECTION I: INTRODUCTION

1. Introduction to Concepts of Pathology

2. Behavioral, Social, and Environmental Factors Contributing to Disease and Dysfunction

3. The Psychosocial-Spiritual Impact on Health Care

4. Environmental and Occupational Medicine

5. Problems Affecting Multiple Systems

6. Injury, Inflammation and Healing

SECTION II: CLINICAL MEDICINE

7. The Immune System

8. Infectious disease

9. Oncology

10. The Integumentary System

11. The Endocrine and Metabolic Systems

12. The Cardiovascular System

13. The Lymphatic System

14. The Hematologic System

15. The Respiratory System

16. The Gastrointestinal System

17. The Hepatic, Pancreatic, and Biliary Systems

18. The Renal and Urologic Systems

19. The Male Genital/Reproductive System

20. The Female Genital/Reproductive System

21. Transplantation

SECTION III: PATHOLOGY OF THE MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM

22. Introduction to Pathology of the Musculoskeletal System

23. Genetic and Developmental Disorders

24. Metabolic Disorders

25. Infectious Diseases of the Musculoskeletal System

26. Musculoskeletal Neoplasms

27. Soft Tissue, Joint and Bone Disorders

SECTION IV: PATHOLOGY OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM

28. Introduction to Central Nervous System Disorders

29. Infectious Disorders of the Central Nervous System

30. Central Nervous System Neoplasms

31. Degenerative Diseases of the Central Nervous System

32. Stroke

33. Traumatic Brain Injury

34. Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury

35. Cerebral Palsy

36. Epilepsy

37. Headache

38. Vestibular Disorders

39. The Peripheral Nervous System

40. Laboratory Tests and Values

Appendix A: Summary of Standard Precautions

Appendix B: Guidelines for Activity and Exercise

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From the Publisher

Develop effective intervention plans with an awareness of the impact that systemic diseases have on the rehabilitation process

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Richard A. Rutt, PhD, PT, RN (Pacific University)
Description: This text provides information for the therapist to better appreciate the significant overlap between signs and symptoms of neuromusculoskeletal conditions and other medical pathological conditions. Wherever possible a feature, Special Implications for the Physical Therapist, is provided for the therapist to consider prior to developing a treatment plan. The information in these sections quickly outlines any special considerations necessary for each pathologic condition presented.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide information designed to facilitate the students' and clinicians' understanding of how pathological processes can affect their practice. The therapist must recognize when medical complications require precautions or even possibly represent a contraindication to certain techniques or to therapy altogether.
Audience: This text is written for entry-level students who are beginning their physical therapy education, for post-professional students, and for practicing clinicians.
Features: It is divided into four major sections. The introductory section presents an overview of pathological concepts taking into account biopsychosocial aspects of health, aging, illness, and disease. Section 2 presents information dealing with pathology of individual organs and organ systems. Diseases presented in this section constitute what is traditionally referred to as clinical medicine. Section 3 covers pathology of the musculoskeletal system and Section 4 discusses the neurologic system. Each disease process is discussed from the perspective of a traditional model with a clinical emphasis. Whenever possible, other considerations such as nutrition, medication, psychosocial status, and emotional response to the illness and/or treatment are included. The last chapter lists laboratory tests and normative value for these common tests.
Assessment: I have used this as the required text for my medical pathologies and disabilities class. I have taught this class for the last 10 years and had not found an adequate text until the publication of this book. While no single text can cover, in sufficient detail, all medical, skeletal, and neurological disorders, this text provides more than adequate information about many of the most common disorders. I highly recommend i as an addition to anyone's physical therapy library.

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