Evidence Based Practice Summary

Jewell, D. (2014). Guide To Evidence-Based Physical Therapist Practice (3rd Ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning. He important
A book used by Western University in there DPT that discusses the tools needed and used to learn about philosophy, history, and importance of evidence-based practice. It’s a major contributor to the PT field and has several main points in the book. It has workout sheets that will help with the learning process. This book is used a lot during a student’s career during field study and lab work. Its helps with examples, statistics, clinical procedure, and just about anything a student needs for research methods. During college I would be able to use this as a study guide and a point of reference when I start

Its main focus points is manual muscle test and evaluation. Professionals such as doctors, nurses, physical therapists, athletic trainers and personal trainers use this book to search a specific muscle in the body to find a correct test to evaluate a particular muscle. Each chapter offers an expanded treatment and exercise sections to be able to evaluate personal injuries or pains suffered from training. Each chapter goes over a particular section of the body starting out with chapter one being about posture to the last chapter being lower extremities. It explains each muscles purpose, preforming test and proper treatment of each muscle and muscle

It’s a guideline that is used in every form of athletic, teaching or therapy oriented type career. It sets standards on health information plus what is acceptable for exercise and testing methods. I learnt about this during my interview progress and heard first hand that my teacher relates to it a lot and finds it to be extremely useful for not only students but people in the field. It’s the flagship certification from the American College of Sports Medicine, which provides scientifically based standards on exercise testing and prescription for professional and