Therapeutic Exercise Prescription

Dunleavy and Slowik’s Therapeutic Exercise Prescription, Second Edition delivers on exactly what you need from a core therapeutic exercise text. This comprehensive resource combines theoretical concepts and practical application to give you a robust understanding of therapeutic exercise while providing tips and instructions for a resource for clinical care. Using an approachable, easy-to-follow writing style, it introduces foundational concepts, discusses how to choose the right exercises, and guides you in developing goals for treatment. Coverage also includes the examination process and specific ways to choose, monitor, and evaluate the most effective exercise. Each exercise in the text is presented with progressions to give you an understanding of how the exercise(s) may change from the initial phase of exercise prescription to the functional recovery stage. This text also uses case studies, practical discussions, and an enhanced ebook with expanded images and videos throughout included with new print purchase to provide you with a more dynamic and effective learning experience. Each chapter in the enhanced ebook has clinical review questions while interactive case-based questions use images and videos to provide practice questions in an NPTE Board-style format.

NEW! Additional content addresses aquatics, balance, and cardiorespiratory components
UPDATED! Comprehensive coverage throughout provides the most current information needed to be an effective practitioner
NEW! Enhanced ebook version, included with every new print purchase, features video clips, case studies, and an appendix on post-surgical protocols, plus digital access to all the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Interactive practice questions use a NPTE Board-style format with cases, images, and videos
UNIQUE! Clinical reasoning approach to exercise selection, modification, instruction, and progression provides a framework to help you master all aspects of therapeutic exercise, from the initial exercise prescription to the functional recovery stage
UNIQUE! Clinical case examples provide practical examples in a succinct compare-and-contrast format to help you build clinical reasoning skills and learn to apply theory to practice
UNIQUE! Integrated content builds from foundational concepts, with reinforcement throughout the book using illustrations and explanations of important concepts
UNIQUE! Discussion of broad categories such as extremes of mobility impairments, types of trauma, and presence of psychological impairments, strengthen your understanding
UNIQUE! Detailed exercise depictions include teaching tips with instruction examples, common errors to correct, and methods to prevent or address compensations
UNIQUE! Workbook format features comprehensive coverage of exercise examples with alternatives and progressions
Emphasis on patient safety and precautions includes the use of the ICF model, as well as coverage of tissue healing and biometrics
Full case studies cover all regions of the body, as well as each of the mobility-, trauma-, and psychologically informed concepts
Discussion questions and answers at the end of each case study and at the end each chapter help you assimilate and use existing knowledge to prepare for the types of critical thinking required in practice



NEW! Content on balance and aquatic therapy as well as functional exercises
Revised content throughout provides students with the most current information they need to be an effective practitioner
Updated references ensuring content is current and applicable for today’s students
NEW! Educator and Student Resources