Includes bibliographical references and index.

The responsibilities of being a physiotherapist / Ralph Hammond, Dawn Wheeler -- Musculoskeletal assessment / Lynne Gaskell -- An introduction to fractures / Annie Karim -- Management of burns and plastic surgery / Sally Dean -- Physiotherapy in women's health / chapter editor, Gill Brook ; Pauline Walsh ... [et al.] -- Biomechanics / Jim Richards -- Osteoporosis / Kirsty Carne -- Physiotherapy in thoracic surgery / Anne Dyson -- Cardiac disease / Jonathan Moore -- Management of respiratory diseases / Stephanie Enright -- Adult spontaneous and conventional mechanical ventilation / Sue Pieri-Davies -- Cardiac rehabilitation / Sushma Sanghvi -- Pulmonary rehabilitation / Sushma Sanghvi -- Tissue inflammation and repair / Elaine Court, Robert W. Lea -- The physiotherapy management of tissue healing and repair / Janette Grey, Gillian Rawlinson -- Neurological physiotherapy / Christine Smith, Anita Watson, Julie Rigby -- Massage / Joan M. Watt -- Exercise in rehabilitation / Duncan Mason -- Electrotherapy / Tim Watson -- Pain / Lorimer Moseley, Lester Jones -- Common chronic inflammatory polyarthropathies / John Goodacre, Chandini Rao -- Physiotherapy management of ankylosing spondylitis / Juliette O'Hea, Julie Barlow -- The research process / Lynne Goodacre -- Changing relationships for promoting health / Sally French, John Swain -- Upper and lower limb joint arthroplasty / Ann Birch, Ann Price -- Physiotherapy for people with amputation / Carolyn A Hale.