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A Guide to Physical Therapist Practice, Volume I: A Description of Patient Management

Preface

Physical therapy is a dynamic profession with an established theoretical base and widespread clinical applications, particularly in the preservation, development, and restoration of maximum physical function. Physical therapists seek to prevent injury, impairments, functional limitations, and disability; to maintain and promote fitness, health, and quality of life; and to ensure availability, accessibility, and excellence in the delivery of physical therapy services to the patient. As essential participants in the health care delivery system, physical therapists assume leadership roles in prevention and health maintenance programs, in the provision of rehabilitation services, and in professional and community organizations. They also play important roles in developing health policy and appropriate standards for the various elements of physical therapy practice. Physical therapists help nearly a million Americans daily to restore health, alleviate pain, and prevent the onset and progression of impairments, functional limitations, and disability....

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