Rehabilitation for the Postsurgical Orthopedic Patient: Procedures and Guidelines

Written for physical therapists and rehabilitation professionals, Rehabilitation for the Post-Surgical Orthopedic Patient provides clinical information for 19 orthopaedic surgeries, including information on soft tissue healing. Each surgery is described, along with appropriate treatment protocols. Information provided in this unique text allows the reader to formulate specific rehabilitation outcomes for individual patients, including treatment protocols and trouble shooting within various patient populations, including geriatric, athletic, and paediatric.

Provides both surgical and rehabilitation information, so the physical therapist understands the surgical event in order to provide a safe and optimal rehabilitation program and anticipate what to expect postoperatively

Includes treatment ideas with rationale to support treatment suggestions

Contains surgical pictures and drawings to promote a more in-depth understanding of the surgical procedure

Provides easy to access, clinically applicable information for both students and practitioners in clinical practice

Includes rehabilitation guidelines in a table format that are easy to identify and read quickly.

Contains clinical vignettes in each chapter that raise clinical reasoning issues for the reader

Includes a unique, heavily illustrated appendix, Return to Throwing Program, that provides a detailed rehabilitation program for those therapists that work with athletes, such as pitchers, after surgical treatment

Sections of the book are written by well known physical therapists and orthopaedic surgeons, including Frank Jobe, MD, James Andrews, MD, and Luga Podesta, MD