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Physical therapy diagnosis and the relationship between impairments and function. (includes commentary and author response)
Physical Therapy
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July 1, 1991|
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COPYRIGHT 1991 American Physical Therapy Association, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.
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Is diagnosis an activity pertinent to physical therapy.? Do we have to invent terms and categories unique to physical therapists in order to have a system of physical therapy diagnosis? These questions have driven the development of the concept in physical therapy, and each question has followed from the two meanings of the term diagnosis"-the process of making a judgment and a particular category within a classification system.(1(p12)) Although an affirmative answer to the first question has generally been accepted by the profession, we still have entet-tained few ...
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