Publisher's Synopsis
The demand for physiotherapy is increasing with advancing longevity, the desire for well-being and the expanding wish for alternatives to drugs or surgery, but it is only recently that physiotherapy has emerged from an era of unproven beliefs, dogmas and unsubstantiated claims of efficacy. This volume presents a summary of known scientific data on a variety of physiotherapeutic methods. It aims to stress the fact that physiotherapy can be properly evaluated, and to stimulate ideas for further and better studies. In three main topic areas, specialists discuss the minimal methodological and statistical requirements for a good trial, as well as providing detailed problem-oriented and method-oriented reviews of physiotherapeutic methods.
