A practical text covering the theory and the practice of clinical reasoning skills for all physical therapists. Provides readers with activities to improve their own clinical reasoning within their own clinical setting. With a range of very high-caliber international contributors in the field of physiotherapy practice, this book gives the answers to the practitioner's question of how does one apply the theoretical knowledge involved in clinical reasoning to practice and how can one become a better practitioner as a result.
Author(s): Mark A. Jones, Darren A. Rivett
Edition: 1
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 460
Front Cover
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Back Cover
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Front Matter
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Contents
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List of Contributors
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Forward
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Preface
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Introduction
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Section 1: Principles of clinical reasoning in manual therapy
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1- Introduction to clinical reasoning
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Section 2: Clinical reasoning in action- case studies from expert manual therapists
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2- Back and bilateral leg pain in a 63-year-old woman
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3- Ongoing low back, leg and thorax troubles, with tennis elbow and headache
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4- Chronic low back pain over 13 years
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5- Unnecessary fear avoidance and physical incapacity in a 55-year-old housewife
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6- A chronic case of mechanic's elbow
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7- Chronic low back and coccygeal pain
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8- Ankle sprain in a 14-year-old girl
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9- Headache in a mature athlete
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10- Thoracic pain limiting a patient's secretarial work and sport
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11- Bilateral shoulder pain in a 16-year-old long-distance swimmer
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12- Medial collateral ligament repair in a professional ice hockey player
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13- Patellofemoral pain in a professional tennis player
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14- Self-management guided by directional preference and centralization in a patient with low back and leg pain
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15- Craniovertebral dysfunction following a motor vehicle accident
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16- A judge's fractured radius with metal fixation following an accident
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17- A university student with chronic facial pain
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18- Adolescent hip pain
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19- A software programmer and sportsman with low back pain and sciatica
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20- An elderly woman 'trapped within her own home' by groin pain
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21- Chronic peripartum pelvic pain
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22- Acute on chronic low back pain
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23- A non-musculoskeletal disorder masquerading as a musculoskeletal disorder
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24- Forearm pain preventing leisure activities
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Section 3: Theory and development
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25- Educational theory and principles related to learning clinical reasoning
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26- Improving clinical reasoning in manual therapy
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Appendix 1- Reflective diary
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Appendix 2- Self-reflection worksheet
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Index
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