| Abstract/Notes |
The third edition begins with an overview regarding the principles of soft tissue healing and treatment presented by experts in their field. Clinicians must remember the biology of the healing process and the many factors that in influence it. Some of the concepts touched on are controversial and experimental,but others that were once thought of as experimental are being performed with increasing regularity(e,g.,platelet rich plasma therapy). The descriptions are meant to give the clinician visualization of the healing process from a celular leved. The practice of physical therapy continues to undergotransformations. Over the past 60 years it has evolved into a science that is continually being scrutinized by third-party payers challenging us to prove that what we do is effective and efficient. We are at a crucial point in our profession in which we need to justify how many treatments are necessary to manage a condition or ICD-9 code; at times,this practice ignores the person we are treating. This book is not a"Cook-book "for success but rather a compass from which the clinician can find guidance. This text is our effort to provide a resource that the clinician can refrence as a guideline in the rehabilitation of the postsurgical Patient. |
