Table of Contents

Part 1 Overview and principles of evaluation and diagnosis: rehabilitation medicine - past, present and future; ethical issues in rehabilitation medicine; international isues in rehabilitation medicine; impairment, disability and handicap; clinical evaluation; principles and applications of measurment methods; evaluation and management of daily self care requirements; gait analysis; psychological aspects of rehabilitation; occupational rehabilitation and disability determination; interactions with medicolegal system; speech, language, swallowing and auditory rehabilitation; prescriptions, referrals, order writing and the rehabilitation team function; systematically assuring and improving quality and outcomes of medical rehabilitation programmes; electrodiagnostic evaluation of the peripheral nervous system; central nervous system electrophysiology; research in physical medicine and rehabilitation; administration and management in physical medicine and rehabilitation; imaging techniques relative to rehabilitation medicine. Part 2 Management methods: physical agents; biofeedback in physical medicine and rehabilitation; manipulation, massage and traction; injection procedures; functional neuromuscular stimulation; spinal and upper extremity orthotics; lower extremity orthotics, shoes and gait aids; upper and lower extremity prosthetics; therapeutic exercise; assistive technology for rehablitation and reduction of disability; wheelchair prescription and adaptive seating; pharmacotherapy of disability; nutrition in physical medicine and rehabilitation; recreation and sport for people with disabilities; complementary and alternative medicine; aquatic rehabilitation. Part 3 Major rehabilitation problems: primary care for persons with disability; rehabilitation of the paediatric patient; adults with congenital and childhood onset disability disorder; geriatric rehabilitation; spasticity and associated abnormalities of muscle tone; immobility - physiological and functional changes and effects of inactivity on body functions; Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders; pressure ulcers; neurogenic bladder and bowl dysfunction; sexuality and disability; medical emergencies in rehabilitation medicine; vocational rehabilitation, independent living and consumerism. Part 4 Rehabilitation of specific disorders: stroke rehabilitation; rehabilitation of the patient with traumatic brain injury; multiple sclerosis; spinal cord injury and spinal cord injury medicine; rehabilitation for patients with cancer diagnoses; rehabilitation of the individual with Human Immunodeficiency Virus; rehabilitation of the cardiac patient; rehabilitation of the patient with respiratory dysfunction; treatment of the patient with chronic pain; rehabilitation of the patient with spinal pain; osteoporosis; rehabilitation of the patient with arthritis and connective tissue disease. (Part contents)