Abstract

This book entitled Understanding osteoarthritis and its Management is for the physiotherapy students and also useful for professionals of physiotherapy, teachers, doctors, rehabilitation professionals, other paramedics and general public. Physiotherapy, if properly understood and skillfully executed by trained persons, gives excellent results in treating orthopedic disorders and in postoperative rehabilitation. For optimum results, physiotherapy should be pursued systematically till its final logical conclusion and should not be abandoned in the middle. Osteoarthritis is a common condition presenting to most of the physiotherapists in their clinical practice, but the modes of treatment applied are limited. The book gives a vast idea about the condition, its pathology, causes and the various prospects of treatment, which can be approached. If fifty percent of improvement occurs during the treatment of an orthopedic condition is through medication or surgery, then the remaining fifty percent is definitely by physiotherapy. The book has been written keeping in mind the undergraduate students of physiotherapy and hence does not focus too much upon the investigations or the differential diagnosis. The main aim behind writing the book is to bring the entire concept in a simplified manner and to make the readers understand the protocol-wise treatment and rehabilitation, which can be followed. The language used is very simple and the contents very concise that will enable maximum information be produced by the students in the examination without having to put in too much effort.