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Braddom's Rehabilitation Care. A Clinical Handbook. Edition No. 2

  • Book

  • February 2025
  • Elsevier Health Science
  • ID: 5927133
Ideal for use at the bedside or in outpatient clinics, Braddom’s Rehabilitation Care by Drs. David X. Cifu and Henry L. Lew provides dependable, up-to-date content in a portable, concise handbook format. The fully updated Second Edition covers the everyday topics you need - pain management, pediatric, adult, and geriatric care, spasticity, assistive devices, orthoses, outcome measures, and much more - all derived from the most trusted name in the field of PM&R.
  • Presents authoritative content derived from the #1 comprehensive reference in the field: Braddom’s Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, in a concise, and portable format
  • Highlights key concepts spanning the full spectrum of rehabilitation medicine to help optimize outcomes for individuals with a range of chronic diseases, impairments, and disabilities
  • Features a reader-friendly design with succinct, templated chapters for ease of use.
  • Offers insights from an international panel of PM&R experts
  • Reflects updates to the latest advances and technologies, including new information on stroke evaluation, rehabilitation, and therapies; interventional pain management options; gait and prosthetics; ultrasound, fluoroscopy; electrodiagnosis; occupational medicine and vocational rehabilitation; the neurogenic bladder; upper limb amputation; medical frailty; and more
  • Provides a quick reference or study resource for the entire rehabilitation team: PM&R professionals and trainees, NPs, PAs, PTs, STs, and OTs; and residents in neurology, neurosurgery, rheumatology, geriatrics, pediatrics, and orthopedics
  • Features online videos that provide guidance on essential techniques, and eSlides that summarize key teaching points and clinical pearls using robust images and diagrams in a presentation format
  • An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud

Table of Contents

SECTION 1: EVALUATION
1. The Physiatric History and Physical Examination
2. Examination of the Pediatric Patient
3. Rehabilitation of Swallowing Disorders
4. Psychological Assessment and Intervention in Rehabilitation
5. Practical Aspects of Impairment Rating and Disability Determination
6. Occupational Medicine and Vocational Rehabilitation
7. Quality and Outcome Measures for Medical Rehabilitation
8. Electrodiagnostic Medicine

SECTION 2: TREATMENT TECHNIQUES AND SPECIAL EQUIPMENT
9. Rehabilitation and Prosthetic Restoration in Upper Limb Amputation
10. Lower Limb Amputation and Gait
11. Upper Limb Orthosis
12. Lower Limb Orthoses
13. Spinal Orthoses
14. Wheelchair and Seating Systems
15. Therapeutic Exercise
16. Manipulation, Traction, and Massage
17. Physical Agent Modalities
18. Integrative Medicine in Rehabilitation
19. Computer-Assistive Devices and Environmental Controls

SECTION 3: COMMON CLINICAL PROBLEMS
20. Neurogenic Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction
21. Neurogenic Bowel: Dysfunction and Rehabilitation
22. Sexual Dysfunction and Disability
23. Spasticity
24. Prevention and Management of Chronic Wounds
25. Vascular Diseases
26. Burns
27. Acute Medical Conditions
28. Chronic Medical Conditions: Pulmonary Disease, Organ Transplantation, and Diabetes
29. Cancer Rehabilitation
30. Geriatrics
31. Rheumatologic Rehabilitation

SECTION 4: ISSUES IN SPECIFIC DIAGNOSES
32. Common Neck Problems
33. Low Back Disorders
34. Osteoporosis
35. Upper Limb Pain and Dysfunction
36. Lower Limb Pain and Dysfunction
37. Chronic Pain
38. Pelvic Floor Disorders
39. Sports Medicine and Adaptive Sports
40. Motor Neuron Diseases
41. Neuropathies
42. Myopathic Disorders
43. Traumatic Brain Injury
44. Stroke Syndromes
45. Degenerative Movement Disorders of the Central Nervous System
46. Multiple Sclerosis
47. Cerebral Palsy
48. Myelomeningocele and Other Spinal Dysraphisms
49. Spinal Cord Injury
50. Auditory, Vestibular, and Visual Impairments

Authors

David Cifu Associate Dean of Innovation and System Integration and Eminent Scholar; Herman J. Flax, MD Professor and Chair, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; Senior Consultant, Sheltering Arms Institute, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine; Senior TBI Specialist, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Researcher, Central Virginia Veteran's Healthcare System; Principal Investigator, (LIMBIC-CENC), Richmond, Virginia, USA. David Cifu is an American physiatrist, researcher, and medical educator. He is the Associate Dean for Innovation and System Integration in the School of Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, the chairman and Herman J. Flax M.D. Professor of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Virginia Commonwealth University, staff physiatrist at the Hunter Holmes McGuire Veterans Administration Medical Center, founding director of the VCU-Center for Rehabilitation Science and Engineering and senior TBI specialist in the Department of Veterans Affairs' Veterans Health Administration. Henry L. Lew Professor and Director of Rehabilitation Medicine Education, Office of Medical Education, John A Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii; Adjunct Professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia, USA. Henry L. Lew is Professor and Director of Rehabilitation Medicine Education, Office of Medical Education, John A Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii; Adjunct Professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia, USA.