Low Vision Rehabilitation
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…
MUSCULOSKELETAL MEDICINE
Rehabilitation of the Polytrauma Patient
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…
Ethical Considerations in Rehabilitation
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…
Rehabilitation of the Burn Patient
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…
Management of the Rehabilitation Patient with Psychiatric Disorders
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…
Rehabilitation of the Organ Transplant Patient
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…
Disorders of the Neuromuscular Junction: Myasthenia Gravis
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…
Geriatric Rehabilitation
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…
General Topics in End-of-Life Rehabilitation
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…
Rehabilitation of Root and Plexus Lesions
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen In this chapter, we will address the relevant anatomy, pathogenesis, epidemiology, clinical features, diagnostic testing, specific disorders, rehabilitative management, and prognosis related to radiculopathy and plexopathy….
