DeLisa’s Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: Principles and Practice. Sixth edition

Description:

DeLisa’s Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Principles and Practice presents the most comprehensive review of the state of the art, evidence-based clinical recommendations for physiatric management of disorders affecting the brain, spinal cord, nerves, bones, joints, ligaments, muscles, and tendons.

Table of Contents:

PART I Principles of Assessment and Evaluation

1 Clinical Evaluation

2 Assessment of Human Muscle Function

3 Electrodiagnostic Evaluation of the Peripheral Nervous System

4 Human Walking

5 Imaging Techniques

6 Diagnostic Ultrasound

7 Functional Evaluation and Management of Self-Care and Other Activities of Daily Living

8 Disability Determination in Relation to Work

9 The International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health

10 Systematically Assessing and Improving the Quality of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

11 Epidemiology of Disability in the United States and Internationally: Implications for Policy and Practice

PART II The Rehabilitation Team: Systems-Based Practice

12 Psychological Aspects of Rehabilitation

13 Speech, Language, Swallowing, and Auditory Rehabilitation

14 Vocational Rehabilitation, Independent Living, and Consumerism

15 Important to Measure Aspects of Participation and Environmental Factors in Medical Rehabilitation

16 Ethical Issues in Rehabilitation Medicine

17 International Aspects of the Practice of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

PART III Major Conditions: Neuromuscular

18 Stroke Rehabilitation

19 Traumatic Brain Injury

20 Multiple Sclerosis

21 Comprehensive Rehabilitation of Parkinson Disease and Movement Disorders

22 Rehabilitation of Spinal Cord Injury

23 Motor Neuron Disease

24 Peripheral Neuropathy

25 Myopathy

PART IV Major Conditions: Musculoskeletal

26 Disorders of the Cervical Spine

27 Rehabilitation of Lumbar Spine Disorders: An Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Approach

28 Idiopathic Scoliosis

29 Disorders of the Upper Limbs

30 Disorders of the Lower Limbs

31 The Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation of Osteoporosis

32 Rheumatic Diseases

PART V Major Conditions: General Rehabilitation

33 Cardiac Rehabilitation

34 Rehabilitation of the Patient with Respiratory Dysfunction

35 Burns

36 Rehabilitation for Patients with Cancer Diagnoses

37 Amputations and Vascular Diseases

PART VI Secondary Conditions and Complications

38 Physical Inactivity: Physiologic Impairments and Related Clinical Conditions

39 Chronic Pain

40 Spasticity

PART VII Special Populations

41 Sports Medicine

42 Paralympic Sports

43 Physical Activity for People with Disabilities

44 Performing Arts Medicine

45 Rehabilitation of Children with Disabilities and Adults with Childhood-Onset Disabling Conditions

46 Health for Women with Disabilities

47 Geriatric Rehabilitation

48 The Role of PM&R in Disaster Relief

PART VIII Management Methods

49 Exercise

50 Aquatic Rehabilitation

51 The Physical Agents

52 Pharmacotherapy of Disability

53 Joint and Spinal Injection Procedures

54 Electrical Stimulation (Therapeutic and Functional)

55 Assistive Technology

56 Upper and Lower Limb Prosthetics

57 Orthotics for the Lower and Upper Limb and Spine

58 Wheelchairs

59 Integrative Medicine in PM&R

PART IX Scientific Advances

60 Evidence-Based Practice in Rehabilitation (Including Clinical Trials)

61 Neural Repair and Plasticity

62 Rehabilitation Robotics

Index