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With clear, concise explanations and detailed illustrations, ESSENTIALS OF KINESIOLOGY FOR THE PHYSICAL THERAPIST ASSISTANT is designed specifically for fast-paced PTA programs. This book makes even the most complex and daunting content logical and easy to understand by starting with the basic principles of vendaje neuromuscularlogy and building up to the applied presentation of upper- and lower-extremity areas of the body.

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La fuerza es una de las capacidades condicionales que desempeña un importante papel en el mundo del entrenamiento deportivo, bien sea como elemento principal del rendimiento o como base para generar la tensión necesaria para crear cualquier movimiento. Es tanta su importancia en cualquier modalidad deportiva, que hoy ya ha sobrepasado el concepto tradicional que lo equiparaba a la figura del deportista altamente musculado.

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SINOPSIS
Caminar es un ejercicios simple, agradable y sumamente efectivo, adecuado para todo el mundo, para todas la edades y capacidades físcias.

Este completo manual ilustrado muestra todo lo que se puede lograr caminando, tanto si se desea controlar el peso como reducir el estrés, mejorar la salud cardiaca, fortalecer los huesos o simplemente disfrutar en compañía.

In response to the increasing need for progressing a treatment plan, this text shows the reader how to prescribe therapeutic exercise based on the best evidence and clinical experience. It teaches therapists how to make informed clinical decisions about the best way to progress treatment for their clients that integrates balance, strength, endurance and all of the areas necessary for optimal function. It also provides the underlying theories of treatment planning, using APTA’s Guide to Physical Therapist Practice, 2nd Edition as the basis for practice.

En Abdominales con el poder único del balón su autora, Colleen Craig, revela porqué el balón de ejercicio es insustituible como herramienta para ganar una excelente fuerza abdominal. Colleen Craig utiliza los principios de Pilates: un inigualable método de ejercicios, famoso por desarrollar músculos largos y esculturales, así como una espalda y segmento somático central fuertes.

Combining scientific principles with movement and imagery exercises that are both effective and fun, this book demonstrates how to create a stronger body by toning the pelvic floor. Focusing on the biomechanics of the pelvic floor, which acts as a support for the inner organs and contains a passage for the urethra, the sex organs, and the rectum, this guide shows how the pelvic floor plays an important role in almost all movements, balance, and body posture.

Here's the only available book that examines the use of non-traditional movement systems, especially the Feldenkrais Method and Tia Chi, in the physical therapy setting to treat orthopaedic conditions/injuries. These systems represent a style of internal exercise designed to increase the patient's self awareness and attention to proprioceptive detail, emphasizing integrated or whole body patterns of movement and the use of movement constraints that encourage specific movements and/or muscle contractions.

Connolly (physical therapy, University of Tennessee Health Science Center) and Montgomery (Therapeutic Intervention Programs, Inc.) present case studies of real children with frequently encountered impairments and functional limitations, to illustrate the application of current motor development, motor control, and motor learning theories as well as the development of evaluation and intervention strategies. Incorporated within the book is the Guide to Physical Therapy Practice, which assists therapists in identifying functional limitations and creating intervention strategies.