Title:
Electrotherapy explained : principles and practice
Author:
Low, John (John L.)
Personal Author:
Edition:
Third edition.
Publication Information:
Oxford ; Boston, MA : Butterworth-Heinemann, [2000]
©2000
Physical Description:
xii, 431 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm + 1 computer optical disc (4 3/4 in.)
Language:
English
Subject Term:
Added Author:
ISBN:
9780750641494
Format :
Book
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Summary
Summary
This book explains in a clear and straight forward manner the principles and practice of modern electrotherapy. Totally updated, revised and redesigned, this bestselling text will continue to provide all the latest information on the subject for physiotherapy students and practitioners and all those seeking a comprehensive and well-referenced introduction to electrotherapy.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. vii |
| Preface to the third edition | p. ix |
| Preface to the first edition | p. xi |
| Section I | |
| Chapter 1. Introduction | p. 1 |
| Chapter 2. Therapeutic direct current | p. 30 |
| Chapter 3. Electrical stimulation of nerve and muscle | p. 53 |
| Chapter 4. Electrophysiological evaluation | p. 141 |
| Chapter 5. Biofeedback | p. 157 |
| Section II | |
| Chapter 6. Therapeutic ultrasound | p. 172 |
| Section III | |
| Chapter 7. Heat and cold | p. 212 |
| Chapter 8. Therapeutic conduction heating | p. 241 |
| Chapter 9. Cold therapy | p. 255 |
| Section IV | |
| Chapter 10. Electromagnetic fields: shortwave diathermy, pulsed electromagnetic energy and magnetic therapies | p. 276 |
| Section V | |
| Chapter 11. Electromagnetic radiation | p. 315 |
| Chapter 12. Microwave diathermy | p. 327 |
| Chapter 13. Infrared and visible radiations | p. 341 |
| Chapter 14. Laser therapy | p. 356 |
| Chapter 15. Ultraviolet radiation | p. 376 |
| Appendix | p. 413 |
| Index | p. 419 |