PHYSIOTHERAPY SPECIAL TESTS AND OUTCOME MESURES

ISBN:-978-93-6175-518-7

This book is the culmination of nearly three years of work that we have done. We had
never expected it would take anything like as long, but we have discovered vastly more
than we ever thought possible, and in fact what we have done now touches almost every
existing area of physiotherapy special tests and its outcome measures, and quite a bit
besides. We have tried to give a fairly complete coverage of the field describing the
most common term physiotherapy special tests and its outcome measures known to us
to be employed by physical therapists. In the initial chapters we have tried to explain
in details various special tests and outcome measures because we feel that thorough
understanding of these tests will ultimately lead to safer and more effective clinical
practice. Therefore, the book builds up from basics to give a description of types of
tests along with the rehabilitation methods and their outcome measure available to the
physical therapist. Each outcome measure is explained with reasonably comprehensive
range of references to support them. With the very welcome involvement of physical
therapist in research, we hope to give them access to the vast amount of literature upon
which they are encourage to base their final clinical intervention. In the early years, we
did as we had done before as a researcher, and published accounts of our ongoing work
in the scientific literature. But although what we wrote seemed to be very well received,
we gradually came to realize that technical papers scattered across the journals of all
sorts of fields could never successfully communicate the kind of major new intellectual
structure that we seemed to be beginning to build. So, we resolved just to keep working
quietly until we had finished, and was ready to present everything in a single coherent
way. Three years later this book is the result. However, our sincere hope is that we have
made physiotherapy special tests and its outcome measures and their outcome measure
used in their rehabilitation, more comprehensible, which will, in turn, will raise the
standers of safe and effective rehabilitation for our patients-the aim of us all.