Guide To Physical Therapist Practice

This text guides patterns of practice; improves quality of care; promotes appropriate use of health care services; and explains physical therapist practice to insurers, policymakers, and other health care professionals. This edition continues to be a resource for both daily practice and professional education.

Guide to Evidence-Based Physical Therapist Practice, Third Edition provides readers with the information and tools needed to appreciate the philosophy, history, and value of evidence-based practice, understand what constitutes evidence, search efficiently for applicable evidence in the literature, evaluate the findings in the literature, and integrate the evidence with clinical judgment and individual patient preferences and values. This unique handbook marries the best elements of multiple texts into a single accessible guide. Guide to Evidence-Based Physical Therapist Practice, Third Edition is updated and revised, including a vibrant 2-color engaging layout, improved organization, additional statistics coverage, and expanded resources for instructors and students. Its reader-friendly style facilitates learning and presents the knowledge and skills essential for physical therapist students to develop a foundation in research methods and methodologies related to evidence-based medicine. Students will learn how evaluate research designs, appraise evidence, and apply research in clinical practice. This is a comprehensive resource no physical therapist or student should be without. NEW TO THE THIRD EDITION • Features a new two-color design • Includes updated research examples • Presents statistics coverage in two chapters with more manageable content to review Description and Inference • Contains expanded content related to qualitative research designs • Provides qualitative research examples to illustrate the contribution of these designs to a physical therapist’s ability to discern and understand individual patient/client applications • Explores examples of circumstances where biases and limitations have resulted in errors • Offers new instructor and student resources INSTRUCTOR RESOURCES • Sample Syllabus (corresponding with APTA’s Guide to Physical Therapist Practice 3.0 and the 2016 CAPTE Evaluative Criteria) • PowerPoint Presentations for each chapter • New Test Bank with 150 questions • Revised Sample Evidence Appraisal Worksheets • Helpful Resource List with additional references • Answer Key - Sample Answers for End of Chapter Questions STUDENT RESOURCES: Navigate Companion Website, including: Crossword Puzzles, Flashcards, Interactive Glossary, Practice Quizzes, Web Links, Screenshots of electronic databases

This basic handbook on how to start up a private physical therapy practice is a hands-on guide for any physical therapist who is contemplating or preparing to go out on his/her own. Starting & Managing Your Own Physical Therapy Practice is a one-of-a-kind guide that offers insight into the how's, what's, and where's of private business and gives the practitioner enough information and insight to veer him/her in the proper direction. This book is a guide map, a tool developed to open your eyes to what is necessary to open and run your own, successful practice.

This book answers the call to what today's physical therapy students and clinicians are looking for when integrating the guide to physical therapist practice as it relates to the musculoskeletal system in clinical care.

Guide to Evidence-Based Physical Therapist Practice, Fourth Edition teaches the knowledge and skills to evaluate medical evidence and apply it to the practice of physical therapy. This valuable reference explains the fundamentals of medical research and how to determine which studies are useful in practice. As the leading evidence-based practice text for physical therapy, this is a comprehensive resource no physical therapist or student should be without.

"Guide to Evidence-Based Physical Therapist Practice teaches the knowledge and skills to evaluate medical evidence and apply it to the practice of physical therapy. It explains the fundamentals of medical research and how to determine which studies are useful in practice. Topics including understanding what constitutes evidence, searching efficiently for applicable evidence in the literature, evaluating the findings in the literature, and integrating the evidence with clinical judgment and individual patient preferences and values"--

Documentation for Physical Therapist Practice: A Clinical Decision Making Approach provides the framework for successful documentation. It is synchronous with Medicare standards as well as the American Physical Therapy Association’s recommendations for defensible documentation. It identifies documentation basics which can be readily applied to a broad spectrum of documentation formats including paper-based and electronic systems. This key resource skillfully explains how to document the interpretation of examination findings so that the medical record accurately reflects the evidence. In addition, the results of consultation with legal experts who specialize in physical therapy claims denials will be shared to provide current, meaningful documentation instruction.

As the profession of physical therapy continues its growth toward autonomous practice, the physical therapist, physical therapist assistant and student are going to face liability risks and exposure like never before. Physical Therapist's Business Practice and Legal Guide provides the tools needed to integrate risk management practices into the daily patient care routine. Each chapter includes key concepts and discussion questions. Specific cases are also discussed to explain and support legal concepts and how these set the stage for future risks exposure.