Textbook of Therapeutic Exercises

by S Lakshmi Narayanan

This book is purely helpful for the beginners of exercise therapy. It is a comprehensive book that deals with teaching of exercise therapy, instructs the norms of the therapy, how to stimulate fast recovery of the patients through exercise therapy though on medication. This book is nicely contains in 16 chapters covering all application of therapeutic exercises. A number of color illustrations, graphic and tables representations to impress upon the reader. It explains how exercise therapy is governed and controlled by the mechanism of static and dynamic force, linear, parallel, rotational, concurrent force, the center and line of gravity, base of support, equilibrium-stable, unstable, neutral and Newton’s laws of force, inertia, acceleration and action-reaction as well as the functions of levers and pulley, elasticity, springs, kinetic and potential energy work in human body’s functional system. This book is an extremely beneficial reference book for physiotherapists, orthopaedicians and people who face physical trauma enmasse.