Physical Therapy and the Arthritis Patient

Up-to-the-minute drug therapies, medical and surgical options, and physical therapy evaluations and treatments for arthritis are featured in this useful new reference. Sufferers of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis--two of the most widely diagnosed articular disorders encountered by health care professionals--are often left disabled and require close medical supervision. The contributors to this timely book--a physical therapist, a physician, a surgeon, and a clinical pharmacist, all of whom work closely with arthritis patients--examine the pathology and clinical features of the disease as well as report on successful and innovative management techniques.