KIN 4043 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Physical Therapy, Wound Healing, Electrotherapy
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Chapter 1: work smarter not harder, what is therapeutic modalities, therapeutic. A method of application or the employment of any therapeutic agent. Any specific sensory stimulus such as taste, touch, vision, pressure or hearing: put it all together. Therapeutic modality (tm) = a device or technique that delivers a physical agent to the body for the therapeutic purposes: physical agents. To promote: wound healing, pain relief, flexibility and range of motion (rom, muscular strength, muscular endurance, muscular speed, muscular coordination or skill, power, agility, cardiorespiratory endurance, classification of tm. Tm have been classified in many different ways. But each is incomplete that is, none includes all modalities. Mechanical: massage, mobilization, ultra sound (us), whirlpool. Sometimes pts work with physiatrists, who are specialists in physical medicine and rehab. They (cid:449)ill usually get good pres(cid:272)riptio(cid:374)s, (cid:271)ut (cid:373)ost pts a(cid:374)d ats usually do(cid:374)"t get good prescriptions. Need to educate the physician about what the at is using: to select modality(ies) intelligently.
