Product Description: Provides comprehensive foundational knowledge in decision making, screening, development, motor control, and motor learning, the impairments of body function and structure, and the PT management of pediatric disorders. Reflects a family-centered care model throughout to help you understand how to involve children and their caregivers in developing and implementing intervention plans...read more

Product Description: Chapters follow a consistent organization, first defining a disorder and then describing the appropriate physical therapy assessment and intervention.Case studies provide examples of physical therapy applications to help you connect theory and practice and build strong clinical reasoning skills...read more

Product Description: This money-saving package is a must-have for students! It includes Pediatrics for the Physical Therapist Assistant and an electronic version of the textbook that allows students to search, highlight information, take notes, share notes and more...read more

A guide to pediatric physical therapy.

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Product Description: Prepare your students for physical therapy practice with this up-to-date and accessible introduction to the major diseases and disabilities common to children who require physical therapy and the examination techniques and interventions commonly used in their rehabilitation...read more

Product Description: This concise, expertly illustrated textbook of histology and cell biol ogy introduces the study of pathology through an examination of altere d cell and tissue function. Over 650 full-color illustrations are desi gned to not only illustrate key ideas, but also to provide a complete, visual review of a particular concept or topic...read more

Designed as both a practical clinical reference and a comprehensive classroom text, this unparalleled new resource meets the need of OTA programs for a focused, easy-to-use approach to pediatrics. An introductory section covers the scope of practice, then addresses the medical, educational, and family systems. Subsequent sections provide in-depth coverage of normal development, pediatric health conditions, and treatment planning. A wide range of helpful pedagogy reinforces learning and enhances retention: chapter objectives, review questions, clinical pearls, learning activities, resource lists, bulleted/boxed key concepts, and boxed descriptions of therapeutic activities.

This comprehensive resource and clinical guide for students and practicing pediatric therapists features current information on the neurological foundations of hand skills, the development of hand skills, and intervention with children who have problems related to hand skills.Covers foundation and development of hand skills, therapeutic intervention, and special problems and approaches.Is readable, concise, and well-organized with a consistent format throughout.Integrates recent research findings and current thinking throughout the text.Emphasizes neuroscience and the hand's sensory function and haptic perception.Applies neuroscience and development frames of reference throughout.Implications for practice included in each chapter.Presents concepts in the foundation/development chapters that are linked with the intervention chapters.Seven new chapters reflect current practice in the field and cover cognition & motor skills, handedness, fine-motor program for preschoolers, handwriting evaluation, splinting the upper extremity of the child, pediatric hand therapy, and efficacy of interventions.Extensively revised content throughout includes new research and theories, new techniques, current trends, and new information sources.9 new contributors offer authoritative guidance in the field.Over 200 new illustrations demonstrate important concepts with new clinical photographs and line drawings.Over 50 new tables and boxes highlight important information.An updated and expanded glossary defines key terms.

Book by Sellars, Carole Wedel, Vegter, Candace Hill

Intended for physiotherapy students, this book offers quick and easy access to aetiology, assessment and treatment issues in paediatric physiotherapy. Charts are used extensively to emphasize important material. (view table of contents)

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A comprehensive paediatric occupational therapy textbook for the entry level student, this text is organized through the structure of frames of reference rather than by diagnostic category. Appropriate for adoption in courses focusing on paediatric practice, development dysfunction and neuro-developmental treatment, the book can also be used in courses on theory and functional disorders of childhood. Practising therapists should also find this an informative reference.

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Product Description: Therapists often face the dilemma of determining the most effective intervention for treating the specific needs of their pediatric clients. This manual will show you how to utilize a combined approach of NDT and SI therapy in your professional practice to best meet children's special needs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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