Musculoskeletal Key

INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Children with special health care needs (SHCNs) represent a growing population of patients with unique needs and are important from a health care services and policy…

OVERVIEW OF MOVEMENT DISORDERS Print Section Listen Movements disorders are neurologic syndromes that involve impaired performance of voluntary movements, dysfunction of posture, the presence of abnormal involuntary movements, or the…

INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen As in adults, the use of electrodiagnostic studies in pediatric patients provides an extension of the neurologic examination facilitating evaluation of the physiology of the neuromuscular…

INTRODUCTION AND EPIDEMIOLOGY Print Section Listen Over 75,000 children (ages 0–19 years) were diagnosed with cancer between 2010 and 2014 in the United States. Of these, leukemias and lymphomas were…

INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen The incidence of childhood disability has increased dramatically over the past half a century from approximately 3% in 1969 to 15.1% in 2009.1,2 This dramatic increase…

INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen The intent of this chapter is to highlight special topics as they pertain to the prescription of prosthetics and orthotics in the pediatric population; for an…

INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Patients with chronic pulmonary disease have increased rates of morbidity and mortality in addition to a lower quality of life. Pulmonary rehabilitation is a multispecialty comprehensive…

INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen This chapter is designed to give the rehabilitation specialist an overview of commonly prescribed medications in the rehabilitative setting. It is not intended to be a…

BACKGROUND/HISTORY Print Section Listen The intent of this chapter is to provide a brief overview of common conditions and topics that may be encountered on a general inpatient rehabilitation unit;…