This standard defining setting physical medicine and rehabilitation text is now in its Fourth Edition, with thoroughly updated content and a more clinical focus.
In the book over 150 expert contributors (most new to this edition) address the full range of issues in contemporary PM-R and present state of the art patient management strategies, emphasising evidence-based recommendations.
This edition has two separate volumes on Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Medicine, and each volume has sections on principles of evaluation and management, management methods, major problems, and specific disorders.


Features

• The most comprehensive book on the market
• More clinically useful evidence-based information
• Treatment algorithms and boxed lists of key clinical facts have been added to many chapters
• Now with a newly organised format to make physical medicine and rehabilitation medicine retrieval easier
• Emphasis on evidenced-based recommendations
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  New to this Edition
  
  • Title change to reflect the reorganisation of book
  • Now 2 volumes (one for Physical Medicine one for Rehabilitation Medicine)
  • 150 new contributing authors
  • Much more pedagogy (algorithm table checklists)
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    Contents
    
    Physical Medicine
    
    I. Principles of Evaluation and Management
    1 Clinical Evaluation
    2 The Physical Examination
    3 Electrodiagnostic Evaluation of the Peripheral Nervous System
    4 Central Nervous System Electrophysiology
    5 Assessment of Human Muscle Function
    6 Human Walking
    7 Disability Determination
    8 Imaging Techniques Relative to Rehabilitation
    9 Functional Neuroimaging in Medical Rehabilitation Populations
    
    II. Management Methods
    10 Interactions with the Medicolegal System
    11 Therapeutic Physical Agents
    12 Biofeedback in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
    13 Manipulation, Massage and Traction
    14 Injection Procedures
    15 The Pharmacology of Analgesic Agents
    16 Spinal Injection Procedures
    17 Therapeutic Exercise
    18 Electrotherapy in Rehabilitation
    19 Complementary and Alternative Medicine
    20 Aquatic Rehabilitation
    
    III. Major Problems
    21 Treatment of the Patient with Chronic Pain
    22 Palliative Care
    23 Sports Medicine
    24 Recreation and Sport for Persons with Disabilities
    25 Arts Medicine
    
    IV. Specific Disorders
    26 Cumulative Trauma Disorders
    27 Disorders of the Cervical Spine
    28 Low Back Pain
    29 Scoliosis
    30 Osteoporosis
    31 Rehabilitation of the Patient with Inflammatory Arthritis and Connective Tissue Disease
    32 Osteoarthritis
    33 Peripheral Vascular Diseases
    34 Rehabilitation of Persons with Parkinsons Disease and Other Movement Disorders
    35 Upper Extremity Soft Tissues Injuries
    36 Hand Disorders
    37 Rehabilitation After Lower Limb Joint Reconstruction
    38 Foot Disorders/Shoes
    39 Peripheral Neuropathy
    40 Myopathy
    41 Motor Neuron Disease
    42 Vestibular Rehabilitation
    
    Rehabilitation Medicine
    
    I. Principles of Evaluation and Management
    43 Functional Evaluation and Management of Self Care and Other Activities of Daily Living
    44 Psychological Aspects of Rehabilitation
    45 Speech, Language, Swallowing and Auditory Rehabilitation
    46 Rehabilitation Team Function and Prescriptions, Referrals, and Order Writing
    47 Vocational Rehabilitation, Independent Living and Consumerism
    48 Ethical Issues in Rehabilitation Medicine
    49 The International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health: ICF Empowering Rehabilitation Through an Operational Bio-Psycho-Social Model
    50 Research in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
    51 Administration and Management in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
    52 International Aspects of Rehabilitation
    53 Principles and Applications of Measurement Methods
    54 Systematically Assessing and Improving the Quality and Outcomes of Medical Rehabilitation Programs
    55 Measuring Quality of Life in Rehabilitation Medicine
    
    II. Management Methods
    56 Pharmacotherapy of Disability
    57 Medical Emergencies
    58 Nutrition in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
    59 Wheelchairs
    60 Assistive Technology
    61 Upper and Lower Extremity Prosthetics
    62 Spinal Orthotics
    63 Upper Extremity Orthotics
    64 Lower Extremity Orthotics, Shoes and Gait Aids
    65 Gait Restoration and Gait Aids
    66 Functional Neuromuscular Stimulation
    67 Spasticity and Movement Disorders
    68 Immobility and Inactivity Physiological and Functional Change Prevention and Treatment
    
    III. Major Problems
    69 Primary Care for Persons with Disabilities
    70 Children with Disabilities
    71 Congenital and Childhood Onset Disabilities: Age Related Changes and Secondary Conditions in Mobility Impairments
    72 Geriatric Rehabilitation
    73 Health Issues for Women with Disabilities
    74 Sexuality and Disability
    
    IV. Specific Conditions
    75 Pressure Ulcers
    76 Neurogenic Bladder and Bowel Dysfunction
    77 Stroke Rehabilitation
    78 Rehabilitation Issues in Traumatic Brain Injury
    79 Rehabilitation of Spinal Cord Injury
    80 Multiple Sclerosis
    81 Rehabilitation for Patients with Cancer Diagnoses
    82 Rehabilitation of the Individual with HIV
    83 Cardiac Rehabilitation
    84 Rehabilitation of the Patient with Respiratory Dysfunction
    85 Burn Rehabilitation
    86 Low Vision Rehabilitation
    87 Auditory Rehabilitation Using Cochlear Implants
    88 Transplantation Medicine: A Rehabilitation Perspective