Improving Functional Outcomes in Physical Rehabilitation

Achieve the best functional outcomes for your patients.
Here is a practical, step-by-step guide to understanding the treatment process and selecting the most appropriate interventions for your patients. Superbly illustrated, in-depth coverage shows you how to identify functional deficits, determine what treatments are appropriate, and then implement them to achieve the best functional outcome for your patients.

Learn through reading, seeing, and doing.
Seventeen case studies in the text correspond to seventeen videotaped case studies with voice-over narration online at FADavis.com. These videos show you how practicing therapists interact with their clients in rehabilitation settings…from sample elements of the initial examination through the interventions to the functional outcomes…to make a difference in patients’ lives.

I.PROMOTING FUNCTION
1.Framework for Clinical Decision-Making and Patient Management
2.Interventions to Improve Motor Function
3.Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation
4.Interventions to Improve Bed Mobility and Early Trunk Control
5.Interventions to Improve Prone on Elbows and Quadruped Skills
6.Interventions to Improve Sitting and Sitting Balance Skills
7.Interventions to Improve Intermediate Trunk and Hip Control: Kneeling and Half-Kneeling Skills
8.Interventions to Improve Transfers
9.Interventions to Improve Manual Wheelchair Skills
10.Interventions to Improve Standing and Standing Balance Skills
11.Interventions to Improve Locomotor Skills
12.Interventions to Improve Upper Extremity Skills
13.Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy
14.Interventions for Vestibular Rehabilitation

II.CASE STUDIES
1.Patient with Traumatic Brain Injury
2.Patient with Traumatic Brain Injury: Balance and Locomotor Training
3.Patient with Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury, T4: Locomotor Training
4.Patient with Stroke: Home Care Rehabilitation
5.Patient with Stroke: Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy
6.Patient with Parkinson’s Disease
7.Patient with Complete Spinal Cord Injury, T9
8.Patient with Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury, C7
9.Patient with Peripheral Vestibular Dysfunction
10.Patient with Complete Spinal Cord Injury, T10
11.Patient with Cerebellar Glioblastoma
12.Patient with Guillain Barré Syndrome and Tetraplegia
13.Patient with Stroke
14.Patient with Motor Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury, C4
15.Patient with Transfemoral Amputation
16.Patient with Multiple Sclerosis (NEW)
17.Patient Status Post Orthotopic Heart Transplant Followed Through the Continuum of Care