BACKGROUND Print Section Listen The rehabilitation of veterans and active-duty service members (ADSMs) is one of the most demanding of all rehabilitation populations. The rehabilitation of this population is a…
WHAT IS LOW VISION REHABILITATION? Print Section Listen LOW VISION REHABILITATION (LVR) IS A NEW subspecialty emerged from the traditional fields of ophthalmology, optometry, occupational therapy, and sociology, with an…
INTRODUCTION TO POLYTRAUMA Print Section Listen REHABILITATION OF POLYTRAUMA PATIENTS REQUIRES a thorough understanding of how these injuries occur, which is important for appropriate and timely management. Polytrauma is defined…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen This chapter provides an introduction to rehabilitation ethics. We begin by presenting a fictitious case study that serves to illustrate how ethical considerations can arise in…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen ANNUALLY, AN ESTIMATED 11 MILLION INDIVIDUALS worldwide and 400,000 in the United States experience a burn injury.1 In the past decade, the mortality rate in the…
OVERVIEW Print Section Listen EMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIORAL SYMPTOMS ACCOMPANY and may exacerbate many chronic diseases, and thus, almost every practitioner will at some point encounter patients with psychiatric comorbidities. This…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION IS ONE OF THE MOST complex surgical procedures in modern medicine. In 1954, Dr. Joseph Murray and Dr. David Hume of Brigham Hospital in…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Disorders affecting the neuromuscular junction (NMJ) are generally pure motor syndromes that usually affect the extraocular muscles but also the proximal limb and bulbar or respiratory…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen The world is facing an unprecedented demographic shift in the human population. The number of people aged 65 or older is projected to increase from 524…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen At first glance, the fields of rehabilitation medicine and palliative medicine might seem to be diametrically opposed, but, in fact, they have much in common. Both…
