| Abstract/Notes |
The Primary audience for this textboox is physical therapy students and faculty in professional physical therapist edacation programs. The secondary audience for this textbook is practicing physical therapists, chiropractor,and physicians who wish to keep up wih wha is being tought in professional physical therapist education programs. Additionally, persons in manual physical therapist residency, fellowship,and post-professional degree programs in orthopaedic and manual physical therpay will find this textbook to be a useful adjunet to other instructional materials. Altough physical therpists have been practicing mnipulationsince the inception of the profession,all physical therapist professional degree programs in the United States must now demonstrate full integration of both thrust and nonthrust joint manuplationin the curriculum to maintaim accreditation. The textbook and accompanying DVD provide physical therapist education faculty and students with detailed instructional materials to effectiveky instruc and learn manipulation. The textbook also provides the research evidence to successfully integrate the use of manual physicl therapy procedures into the mngement of spinal and TMJ disorder. |
