Use evidence-based intervention techniques to care for persons diagnosed
and living with and beyond cancer! Oncology Rehabilitation: A
Comprehensive Guidebook for Clinicians describes the adverse effects
caused by cancer treatment and shows how to use oncology rehabilitation
to optimize the quality of life for persons living with and beyond
cancer at all stages of life. Guidelines help you build skills in
pre-diagnosis, prevention of cancer-related fatigue and pain, active
treatment, and end-of-life care, all as an integral part of an
interdisciplinary cancer management team. Written by physical
therapists for physical therapists, this text 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, along with
in-depth therapeutic management interventions.
- Content on the continuum of cancer care addresses the primordial,
primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary stages in prevention and
treatment.
- Focus on clinicians includes the professional roles,
responsibilities, self-care, and values of the oncology rehabilitation
clinician as an integral member of the cancer care team.
- Information on inseparable contextual factors helps in dealing
with administrative infrastructure and support, advocacy, payment, and
reimbursement of rehabilitation as well as public policy.
- Evidence Summary and Key Points boxes highlight important
information for quick, at-a-glance reference.
- Clinical case studies and review questions enhance your
critical thinking skills and help you prepare for board certification,
specialty practice, and/or residency.
- Enhanced eBook version- included with print purchase- allows you
to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a
variety of devices.
- Resources in the eBook include 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.
- Guidebook approach provides immediate, meaningful application for
the practicing oncology rehabilitation clinician.
