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The Student Physiotherapist's Companion: A Case-Based Test-Your-Knowledge Guide

  • 1st Edition - June 6, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Stuart Porter
  • Language: English

This expert guide offers a new approach to physiotherapy education. It supports you to formulate your own approach to different scenarios, then compare this with what the ex… Read more

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This expert guide offers a new approach to physiotherapy education. It supports you to formulate your own approach to different scenarios, then compare this with what the experts say – helping you learn the facts and how to problem solve at the same time!

More than 50 chapters cover a wide variety of topics that physiotherapists will come across in practice, including the ICU, paediatrics, women’s health and disability scenarios. Each presents a case study and asks you to develop a diagnosis and treatment plan, followed by the expert view at the end of each case.

The Student Physiotherapist's Companion is produced by some of the UK’s leading physiotherapy experts including consultants, academics, managers and clinical interest groups, many of them writing about scenarios that do not appear in any other textbook.

Key features

  • More than 50 chapters written by experts in their field
  • Written with physiotherapy students in mind – addresses your specific needs
  • Illustrations support understanding
  • Varied case studies help to develop a wide range of expertise across different settings

Readership

Student physiotherapists

Table of contents

PART I Musculoskeletal Case Studies

1. An Exercise-Induced Headache

2. Axial Spondyloarthritis

3. Rheumatoid Arthritis

4. Young Footballer With Anterior Proximal Thigh Pain

5. Low Back Pain in an Overhead-Throwing Athlete

6. Running Athlete

7. Lumbar Spinal Canal Stenosis and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

8. Chronic Cervicothoracic Disorder With Upper Limb Symptoms

9. Vascular Pathology of the Neck Region

10. Trochanteric Bursitis or Something More Sinister?

11. Vestibular Rehabilitation Case Study

12. A Missed Deep Vein Thrombosis

13. Adolescent Knee Pain

14. Frozen Shoulder

15. Aquatic Physiotherapy After an Elective Total Hip Replacement

16. Cervical Pain Post–Road Traffic Accident

17. Cervical Spine Radiculopathy

18. Beyond the Fracture

PART II Respiratory and Medical Case Studies

19. Deteriorating Patient With Rib Fractures and Pneumothorax

20. Motor Neurone Disease—An Acute Respiratory Deterioration

21. Interstitial Lung Disease

22. Post-Oesophagectomy Case

23. Older Adult, Frailty/Falls

24. Paediatric Intensive Care

25. Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

26. Bronchiectasis

27. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease as an Outpatient

28. Dysfunctional Breathing Pattern

29. Cystic Fibrosis on Call

30. Ward-Based Cystic Fibrosis Study

31. Neuroscience Case Study

32. Physiotherapy Management Postadmission for Cardiac Arrest at Home

PART III Neurological Case Studies

33. Multiple Sclerosis 1

34. Multiple Sclerosis 2

35. Parkinson’s Disease 1

36. Parkinson’s Disease 2

37. Prolonged Disorder of Consciousness

38. Stroke

39. Motor Neurone Disease and Noninvasive Ventilation

40. Tracheostomy Care

41. The Three Stroke Case Studies

42. Complex Needs Cerebral Palsy

43. Slow-Stream Neurological Rehabilitation of an Individual Presenting With a C5 Spinal Cord Injury and Cerebellar Infarct During COVID-19

44. Guillain–Barré Syndrome

45. Muscular Dystrophy

46. A Case of Abnormal Spinal Anatomy Encountered Whilst Working in Haiti

47. Vestibular Rehabilitation: Concussion With Dizziness

PART IV Physiotherapy—The Bigger Picture

48. Mild Head Injury

49. Anorexia Nervosa

50. Female Pelvic Health

51. Pregnancy Musculoskeletal Case Study

52. Male Pelvic Health Case Study

53. Community Discharge From Hospital

54. Occupational Health and Ergonomics

55. Veterinary Physiotherapy

56. Rehabilitation Following Hemipelvectomy

57. Physical Activity Promotion in a Sedentary Individual

58. Breast Lymphoedema Management

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 17, 2025
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Stuart Porter

Affiliations and expertise
Lecturer in Physiotherapy, UK