Article: Physical therapy diagnosis and the relationship between impairments and function. (includes commentary and author response)

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 suggestions for a clinically useful taxonomy for physical therapy classification. This article will review ...

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