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Post-professional D.P.T. textbooks

Matthews Bookstore

Required and recommended textbooks are available for purchase through Matthews Bookstore located on the Des Moines University campus. The bookstore accommodates off-campus students by mailing textbooks directly to them when the purchase is made with a credit card. The majority of course materials, other than texts, will be available on the web site for each course.

Access to the Guide to Physical Therapist Practice, and other readings required in the Post-Professional D.P.T. curriculum, would be facilitated by students having APTA membership.

Note: Guide to Physical Therapist Practice, Second Edition, American Physical Therapy Association, 2001 is required for all courses.

Spring Module 1: May 3 - June 25, 2010

PPDPT 1604 - Health Promotion and Prevention

Required texts

Wellness and Physical Therapy by Sharon Elayne Fair. Jones and Bartlett Publishers, LLC., 2011
ISBN: 9780763758219 or 0763758213

PDQ Epidemiology, Streiner DL and Norman GR, BC Decker, Inc., Third Edition, 2009
ISBN: 978-1607950226

Recommended text

ACSM's Exercise Management for Persons with Chronic Diseases and Disabilities (3rd Ed) by Durstine, Moore, Painter, and Roberts. ACSM Publishers, 2009
ISBN: 9780736074339 or 0736074333

OR

ACSM's Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription, Eighth Edition. Healthy Learning, 2009
ISBN: 9780781769068 or 078176906X

Spring Module 2: June 28 - August 20, 2010

PPDPT 1603 - Clinical Decision Making

Required texts

PDQ Epidemiology, Streiner DL and Norman GR, BC Decker, Inc., Third Edition, 2009
ISBN: 978-1607950226

Evidence-Based Medicine: How to Practice and Teach EBM. Straus SE, Richardson WS, Glasziou P, Haynes RB. Third Edition. 2005
ISBN: 0443074445

Computer Hardware, Software, and Internet Provider at outlined in the Orientation course

PPDPT 1606 - Motor Control

Required text

Motor Control: Translating Research into Clinical Practice, Shumway-Cook A., Woollacott, M. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Third Edition
ISBN: 9780781766913 or 0781766915

Fall Module 1: August 23 - October 15, 2010

PPDPT 1605 - Clinical Imaging and Pharmacology

Required text

Pharmacology in Rehabilitation, 4th Edition, Ciccone, C., FA Davis Company, 2007.
ISBN: 9780803613775 or 0803613776

Fundamentals of Musculoskeletal Imaging, Third Edition, McKinnis, L. N, F.A. Davis 2010
ISBN: 9780803619463

PPDPT 1606 - Motor Control

Required text

Motor Control: Translating Research into Clinical Practice, Shumway-Cook A., Woollacott, M. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Third Edition
ISBN: 9780781766913 or 0781766915

PPDPT 1609 - Manual Therapy Intervention

Required text

None

Recommended text

Dommerholt J and Huijbregts P. Myofasical Trigger Points: Pathophysiology and Evidence-Informed Diagnosis and Management. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers; 2011.

Cook C. Orthopedic manual therapy: an evidence based approach. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson/Prentice Hall; 2007.

Fall Module 2: October 18 - Dec. 10, 2010


PPDPT 1607 - Clinical Applications

Required texts

None

PPDPT 1810 - Pathology of Clinical Medicine

Required text

Pathology: Implications for the Physical Therapist Goodman, CC, Fuller, KS,. Elsevier; 3rd ed, 2009
ISBN: 9781416031185 or 1416031189

Recommended resources

Pharmacology in Rehabilitation, 4th Edition, Ciccone, C., FA Davis Company, 2007
ISBN: 9780803613775 or 0803613776