Motor Control and Learning
This book is the first to view the effects of development, aging, and practice on the control of human voluntary movement from a contemporary context. Emphasis is on the links between progress in basic motor control research and applied areas such as motor disorders and motor rehabilitation. Relevant to both professionals in the areas of motor control, movement disorders, and motor rehabilitation, and to students starting their careers in one of these actively developed areas.
Rehabilitation Protocols for Surgical and Nonsurgical Procedures: Lumbar Spine
by Carol McFarland and Don Burkhart
This manual, written for healthcare professionals, explores the pros and cons of a wide range of currently practiced rehabilitation methods, and includes tests, illustrated exercises, and worksheets for evaluating patients.
This book explores the painful experience of being different, and offers solutions for society and for individuals to heal and to grow beyond difference. It examines the societal impact of difference, a pecking order that emerges, and the extent to which people can be distantiated.
Grundri� Der Biomechanik (Wissenschaftliche Taschenbucher, #286)
by Roland Glaser
President Theodore Roosevelt once said, "Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." This quote is not only the source from which the title was borne, but also the philosophical approach toward TBI rehabilitation embraced by the 26 rehabilitation experts who wrote Work Worth Doing: Advances in Brain Injury Rehabilitation. This important, and possibly controversial, book of issues and methods addresses the full spectrum of vocational rehabilitatio...
Spinal Cord Injury (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)
by Sara Palmer, Kay Harris Kriegsman, Jeffrey B. Palmer, and Kay Harris Kreigsman
This text is designed to help people with spinal cord injury - and their family members and friends - during the rehabilitation process and the journey that follows. It reviews the challenges that may be encountered and addresses all aspects of injury - psychological, sexual, and social - and other issues including transportation, housing and employment. The authors explain how spinal cord injury affects physical functioning and how those changes may lead to lowered self-esteem, depression, fami...
Ambient Assisted Living (Rehabilitation Science in Practice)
by Dirk Christian Elias and Miguel Sales Dias
Addresses an Emerging Shift in Developing Countries The authors and contributors of Ambient Assisted Living have recognized that the demographic profile is changing in many developing countries and have factored in an inversion of the demographic pyramid. The technology of ambient assisted living (AAL), supports the elderly and disabled in their daily routines to allow for safe and independent living for as long as possible. Dedicated to ambient intelligence—electronic environments that are sen...
This book introduces and expands understanding of yoga therapy as a problem solver. Teachers/therapists will be able to choose and teach comprehensive solutions using explicit yoga sequencing for multi-layered health conditions originated structurally. The ten chosen postures presented provide a template for any number of asanas used by the teacher/therapist. The book will enable yoga teachers/therapists and physical therapists to determine the underlying issues with regards to posture, movement...
Netter. Exploracion Clinica En Ortopedia
by Joshua Cleland, Shane Koppenhaver, and Jonathan Su
Cumulative Trauma Disorders of the Hand and Wrist (Ergonomics Guide S.)
by Thomas J. Armstrong and Ellen A. Lackey
Assistive technology (AT) helps individuals with disabilities participate fully in their educational, recreational, and vocational pursuits. This book traces the evolution of legislation that has affected AT and shows how consumers can take advantage of policy changes that have improved service delivery. Chapters offer a complete discussion of low and high technology, providing techniques that are applicable across environments, domains, and age groups. Occupational therapists, rehabilitation pe...
Dieses umfassende, gut strukturierte und anschauliche Lehrbuch wurde aus einer interdisziplinaren Initiative von Psychologen und Medizinern entwickelt. Das Buch beinhaltet alle wichtigen Themen der postgraduellen Ausbildung zum klinischen Neuropsychologen und stellt den derzeitigen "State of the Art" dar. Das Grundlagenwissen, wie etwa Neuroanatomie und Untersuchungsmethoden, sowie klinische Aspekte haufiger Gehirnerkrankungen, spezielle neuropsychologische Syndrome und auch therapeutische Zugan...
Biomechanics of Injury
by Ronald F. Zernicke, Steven P. Broglio, and William C. Whiting
Neurogenic Dysphagia
by Tobias Warnecke, Rainer Dziewas, and Susan Langmore
Clinical Perspectives in the Management of Down Syndrome (Springer Series in Social Psychology)
The management of and attitudes toward children and adults with Down syndrome have undergone considerable changes in the course of the condi tion's long history (Zellweger, 1977, 1981, Zellweger & Patil, 1987). J. E. D. Esquirol (1838) and E. Seguin (1846) were probably the first physicians to witness the condition without using currently accepted diagnostic designa tions. Seguin coined the terms furfuraceus or lowland cretinism in contradis tinction to the goiterous cretinism endemic at that ti...
Assistive Technology for Children and Youth with Disabilities
by Thomas Fischer, Mary Ann Marchel, and Denise M Clark
This title is only available as a loose-leaf version with Pearson eText, or an electronic book. Encompassing home, school and community environments, Assistive Technology for Children and Youth with Disabilities highlights the vast amount of supports available for children with disabilities from birth to age 21. An informative resource, the text details not only what types of assistive technology exist, but also how to select technology to meet specific students needs and match specific environm...