Oncology Rehabilitation: A Comprehensive Guidebook for Clinicians

Oncology Rehabilitation: A Comprehensive Guidebook for Clinicians offers evidence-based intervention techniques to care for persons diagnosed and living with and beyond cancer, covering pre-diagnosis, prevention, active treatment, and end-of-life care. It provides best practices for manual therapy, exercise testing, and exercise programs, and treatment of adverse effects by body system. Coverage of physical therapy patient management includes acute care, outpatient, and multidisciplinary clinical settings, as well as in-depth therapeutic management interventions. It also addresses inseparable contextual factors such as administrative infrastructure and support, advocacy, payment, and reimbursement of rehabilitation. Clinical case studies and review questions enhance critical thinking skills and prepare for board certification, specialty practice, and/or residency. The eBook version includes videos, board-review questions, case studies, and a curriculum map to highlight and demonstrate the correlation to the requirements for Oncology Rehabilitation Residency programs and the board certification exam.

Format: Hardback
Length: 848 pages
Publication date: 13 October 2022
Publisher: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division

Oncology Rehabilitation: A Comprehensive Guidebook for Clinicians is a valuable resource for clinicians who care for persons diagnosed and living with and beyond cancer. It provides evidence-based intervention techniques to optimize the quality of life for these individuals at all stages of life. The book covers pre-diagnosis, prevention of cancer-related fatigue and pain, active treatment, and end-of-life care, and is written by physical therapists for physical therapists. It provides best practices for manual therapy, exercise testing and exercise programs, and treatment of adverse effects by body system throughout the patient's cancer journey. Coverage of physical therapy patient management includes acute care, outpatient, and multidisciplinary clinical settings, as well as in-depth therapeutic management interventions. The book focuses on clinicians' professional roles, responsibilities, self-care, and values, and provides information on inseparable contextual factors such as administrative infrastructure and support, advocacy, payment, and reimbursement of rehabilitation, and public policy. Evidence Summary and Key Points boxes highlight important information for quick, at-a-glance reference. Clinical case studies and review questions enhance critical thinking skills and help prepare for board certification, specialty practice, and/or residency. The enhanced eBook version includes additional features such as interactive quizzes, video clips, and audio recordings.

Weight: 2080g
Dimension: 226 x 285 x 37 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780323810876