Exercise prescription / [edited by] Kamala Shankar.
Contributor(s): Shankar, Kamala
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BookPublisher: Philadelphia : Hanley & Belfus, c1999Description: xiii, 498 p. : ill. ; 23 cm + pbk.ISBN: 1560532580.Subject(s): Exercise therapyDDC classification: 615.82 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 615.82 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00071458 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This book covers all the important elements in exercise in rehabilitation, including the role of exercise in health promotion and preventive maintenance, guidelines for exercise prescription with specific details, factors influencing prescription, and exercise prescription for the generally healthy as well as those with impairments.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I Basic Principles: History of therapeutic exercise / Kazuko L. Shem and Kamala Shankar -- Effects of exercise on organ systems / Kamala Shankar and Nirmala N. Nayak -- Foundations of therapeutic exercise classification and prescription / Marc Owen Sherman -- Exercise testing / Jonathan N. Myers -- II General medical issues: Cardiac dysfunction / Nels L. Carlson, Hans L. Carlson and Walter R. Frontera -- Pulmonary dysfunction / Stuart J. Glassman -- Exercise prescription in renal failure / Geoffrey E. Moore -- Exercise in peripheral vascular disease / Vincent Yacyshyn and Karen L. Andrews -- Exercise prescription in persons with multiple chronic diseases / Geoffrey E. Moore -- III Neurologic aspects: Therapeutic exercise in neurologic disorders / Rajeswari Kumar and Sharon Broadbent -- Physiologic foundations for exercise prescription in tetraplegia / David R. Gater and Viviane Ugalde -- Rehabilitation prescription for the paraplegic / Denise I. Campagnolo and John A. Horton III -- Case studies in neuromuscular disease exercise prescription / David D. Kilmer -- IV Musculoskeletal aspects: Exercise prescription for the arthritic patient / John J. Nicholas -- Exercise prescription for the amputee / Alberto Esquenazi and Robert DiGiacomo -- Exercise: spine and posture / Rene Cailliet -- Prevention of athletic injury / Marc Owen Sherman -- Treatment of repetitive motion disorders / Barry Goldstein, Lance Goetz, Jennifer Youn, Steven Stiens and Stephen Burns -- V Special groups: Exercise prescription for postmenopausal women / Viviane Ugalde, Tissa Kappagoda and David R. Gater -- Computer injury, posture and exercise prescription / Tanja L. Kujac, Arjun Shankar and Kamala Shankar -- Exercise and youth / Robert P. Pangrazi and Charles B. Corbin -- Exercise in the elderly / Nirmala N. Nayak, Kenneth D. Randall and Kamala Shankar.