Handbook of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation-The Basics -- Contents -- Contributing Authors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: Philosophy, Patient Care Issues, and Physiatric Evaluation -- PHILOSOPHY -- HISTORY -- PATIENT CARE ISSUES -- PHYSIATRIC EVALUATION -- Acute Pain -- DEFINITION -- NEUROANATOMY AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGY OF PAIN PATHWAYS -- EPIDEMIOLOGY -- ETIOLOGY AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY -- GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR ASSESSMENT OF THE PATIENT WITH PAIN -- FUNCTIONAL EVALUATION -- PHYSICAL EXAMINATION -- TREATMENT -- COMPLICATIONS -- Amputations -- GENERAL INFORMATION -- DEFINITIONS -- INCIDENCE/ETIOLOGY -- PATIENT ASSESSMENT/EVALUATION -- REHABILITATION -- REHABILITATION BY SPECIFIC AMPUTATION SITES -- Arthritis -- RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS -- OSTEOARTHRITIS -- ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS AND OTHER SPONDYLOARTHROPATHIES -- Burns -- ASSESSMENT -- SIZE OF BURN -- TREATMENT -- COMPLICATIONS -- PREVENTION -- CONCLUSION -- Cancer Rehabilitation -- OVERVIEW -- FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT -- TREATMENT -- COMPLICATIONS -- BREAST CANCER -- Cardiovascular Conditioning Exercise and Cardiac Rehabilitation -- DEFINITIONS -- ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY -- EPIDEMIOLOGY -- EVALUATION -- TREATMENT -- Chronic Pain -- CHRONIC PAIN DEFINITION AND CHARACTERISTICS -- EPIDEMIOLOGY -- PAIN MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS -- PAIN CLINIC TEAM AND PATIENT SELECTION -- ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION -- PAIN MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS -- TREATMENT APPROACHES -- RESULTS -- EMG -- PRINCIPLES OF ELECTRODIAGNOSTIC MEDICINE -- BASICS OF INSTRUMENTATION -- NERVE CONDUCTION STUDIES (NCS) -- NEEDLE EMG -- CLINICAL APPLICATIONS -- Geriatric Rehabilitation -- DEFINITION -- COMMON ISSUES -- TYPICAL GERIATRIC REHABILITATIVE DIAGNOSES, NEEDS, AND OUTCOMES -- SUMMARY -- Immobilization -- DEFINITION -- DELETERIOUS EFFECTS OF PROLONGED IMMOBILIZATION -- MANAGEMENT OF COMPLICATIONS -- CONCLUSION.

Limb Fractures -- DEFINITION -- TERMINOLOGY -- ANATOMY -- EPIDEMIOLOGY -- CAUSE AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY -- ASSESSMENT OF FRACTURE HEALING -- REHABILITATION EVALUATION -- TREATMENT -- COMPLICATIONS -- Neuromuscular Diseases -- MYOPATHIES -- NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION DISORDERS -- ANTERIOR HORN CELL DISEASE -- SUMMARY -- Osteoporosis -- DEFINITION -- ANATOMY -- EPIDEMIOLOGY -- ETIOLOGY/PATHOPHYSIOLOGY -- ASSESSMENT -- EVALUATION -- TREATMENT -- OUTCOMES -- FOLLOW-UP -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine -- GENERAL PEDIATRIC REHABILITATION MEDICINE COMPONENTS -- CEREBRAL PALSY -- SPINA BIFIDA -- Peripheral Neuropathy and Plexus Injury -- PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY -- BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY -- LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS INJURY -- Pressure Ulcers -- DEFINITION -- ANATOMY -- EPIDEMIOLOGY -- ETIOLOGY/PATHOLOGY -- ASSESSMENT/EVALUATION -- TREATMENT -- TREATING PREDISPOSING FACTORS -- WOUND CARE -- COMPLICATIONS -- SUMMARY -- Pulmonary Rehabilitation -- DEFINITION -- EPIDEMIOLOGY -- ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY -- CONTROL OF RESPIRATION -- ETIOLOGY -- LUNG VOLUME DEFINITIONS -- EVALUATION -- MANAGEMENT -- COMPLICATIONS -- OUTCOME -- Spinal Cord Injury -- DEFINITION -- ANATOMY -- EPIDEMIOLOGY -- ETIOLOGY AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY -- ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION -- COMPLICATIONS -- PROGNOSIS, OUTCOME, AND FOLLOW-UP -- Sports Injury -- FACTORS THAT LEAD TO INJURY -- PRINCIPLES OF BIOMECHANICS -- BASIC PHYSIATRIC TENETS OF SPORT MEDICINE -- PHASES OF REHABILITATION -- HISTORY AND PHYSICAL EXAMINATION -- ASSIMILATION AND DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS -- THERAPY PRESCRIPTION -- TYPES OF THERAPIES -- SPECIAL POPULATIONS -- PATIENT EDUCATION -- FOLLOW-UP AND DISCHARGE -- Stroke -- DEFINITION -- ANATOMIC BASIS OF STROKE SYNDROMES -- STROKE-RELATED IMPAIRMENTS -- NATURAL RECOVERY -- EPIDEMIOLOGY -- ETIOLOGY AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY -- ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION -- REHABILITATION TREATMENT.

COMPLICATIONS -- PROGNOSIS, OUTCOME, AND FOLLOW-UP -- Traumatic Brain Injury -- DEFINITION -- EPIDEMIOLOGY -- ANATOMY AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY -- ASSESSMENT -- TREATMENT -- COMPLICATIONS -- PROGNOSIS AND OUTCOME -- FOLLOW-UP -- Wheelchairs -- DEFINITION -- EPIDEMIOLOGY -- ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION -- TREATMENT -- GLOSSARY -- Subject Index.