Medical Aspects of Disability -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1: An Introduction to Key Topics and Issues -- 1 -- Introduction -- Kate Parkin, PT, MA, John R. Corcoran, PT, DPT, MS, Cert. MDT, and Tara Denham, PT, MA -- the history of rehabilitation -- PATIENT EXPERIENCE -- CONTINUUM OF CARE -- DISABLEMENT MODELS -- RESEARCH -- ACCREDITATION -- NEW AREAS OF REHABILITATION AND CURRENT CONCEPTS -- DISASTERS, DISABILITY, AND REHABILITATION -- REFERENCES -- II: Disabling Conditions and Disorders -- 2 -- Disabling Conditions Seen in AIDS and HIV Infection -- Jennifer Sayanlar, DO, Fran R. Wallach, MD, and Adam B. Stein, MD -- PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHIES -- MUSCLE DISORDERS -- SPINAL CORD DISEASES -- BRAIN DISORDERS -- References -- 3 -- Alzheimer's Disease -- Barry Reisberg, MD, Emile H. Franssen, MD, Liduïn E. M. Souren, RN, MSN, Sunnie Kenowsky, DVM, Imran A. Jamil, MD, Salman Anwar, MD, and Stefanie Auer, PhD -- GLOBAL DESCRIPTION OF NORMAL BRAIN aging and ad -- Functional Changes in AD -- FEEDING CONCOMITANTS OF AD -- BALANCE AND COORDINATION -- RIGIDITY AND CONTRACTURES -- DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSTIC IMPLICATIONS OF THE CHARACTERISTIC Functional Course of AD -- OVERALL MANAGEMENT SCIENCE -- Relationship between AD's Clinical Course and Management and its Observed PathologicAL and Biomolecular Features -- CONCLUSIONS -- Acknowledgment -- REFERENCES -- 4 -- Traumatic Brain Injury -- Brian Im, MD, Mary Hibbard, PhD, ABPP (RP), Ilana Grunwald, PhD, Patrick T. Swift, PhD, and Negin Salimi, DO -- OVERVIEW -- INTRODUCTION -- EPIDEMIOLOGY OF TBI -- COST OF TBI -- CAUSES OF TBI -- MECHANISMS OF TBI -- POST-TBI: PRIMARY SEQUELAE -- CLASSIFICATION OF TBI -- ALTERED LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS -- ASSESSMENT TOOLS TO CLASSIFY TBI -- EARLY-ONSET COMPLICATIONS OF TBI -- ONGOING COMPLICATIONS OF TBI -- TBI REHABILITATION: A TEAM APPROACH.

INPATIENT TBI REHABILITATION -- OUTPATIENT TBI REHABILITATION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 5 -- Rehabilitation in Burns -- Alan W. Young, DO, W. Scott Dewey, PT, CHT, OCS, and Steven E. Wolf, MD -- CAUSATIVE AGENTS -- CLASSIFICATION -- PATIENT MANAGEMENT -- SKIN COVERAGE -- REHABILITATION -- POSITIONING -- SPLINTS -- THERAPEUTIC EXERCISE -- SCAR MANAGEMENT -- PAIN MANAGEMENT -- PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS -- NEUROPATHY -- HETEROTOPIC OSSIFICATION -- RECOVERY -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- 6 -- The Role of Rehabilitation in Cancer Patients -- Reema Batra, MD, and Parul Jajoo, DO, FAAPMR -- INTRODUCTION -- BREAST CANCER -- LYMPHEDEMA -- HEAD AND NECK CANCER -- MUSCULOSKELETAL CANCERS -- CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMORS -- CANCER FATIGUE -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- 7 -- Cardiovascular Disorders -- Ana Mola, MA, RN, ANP-BC, Jonathan H. Whiteson, MD, and Mariano J. Rey, MD, FACC -- CARDIOVASCULAR DISORDERS -- DISEASES OF THE VASCULAR SYSTEM -- CARDIAC REHABILITATION -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- 8 -- Chronic Pain Syndromes -- Christopher G. Gharibo, MD, and M. Fahad Khan, MD, MHS -- PREVALENCE AND IMPACT -- PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF CHRONIC PAIN -- COMPONENTS OF DISABLING CHRONIC PAIN SYNDROMES -- HEADACHES -- LOW BACK AND LEG PAIN -- COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME -- PELVIC PAIN -- MULTIDISCIPLINARY PAIN TREATMENT -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- 9 -- Diabetes Mellitus -- David G. Marrero, PhD -- INTRODUCTION -- FUNCTIONAL PRESENTATION OF DIABETES -- PSYCHOLOGICAL AND VOCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS -- SUMMARY/FUTURE DIRECTIONS -- References -- 10 -- Epilepsy -- Robert T. Fraser, MD, PhD, CRC, John W. Miller, MD, PhD, and Erica K. Johnson, PhD, CRC -- SEIZURE CLASSIFICATION -- CLASSIFICATION OF THE EPILEPSIES -- TREATMENT AND PROGNOSIS -- PSYCHOLOGICAL AND VOCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS -- VOCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS -- CLARIFICATION OF SEIZURE STATUS -- ADDITIONAL DISABILITIES.

MEDICATION ISSUES -- DISCLOSURE OF SEIZURE STATUS -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- 11 -- Speech, Language, Hearing, and Swallowing Disorders -- Nancy Eng, PhD, CCC-SLP, and Patricia Kerman Lerner, MA, CCC, Fellow, ASHA -- INTRODUCTION -- LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT AND LANGUAGE DISORDERS -- SPEECH DEVELOPMENT AND SPEECH DISORDERS -- HEARING AND HEARING DISORDERS -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- 12 -- Hematological Disorders -- Bruce G. Raphael, MD -- LYMPHOMA -- LEUKEMIA -- DISORDERS OF HEMOSTASIS -- REFERENCES -- 13 -- Developmental Disabilities -- Richard J. Morris, PhD, and Yvonne P. Morris, PhD -- DESCRIPTION OF DISABILITY -- FUNCTIONAL PRESENTATION -- TREATMENT AND PROGNOSIS -- PSYCHOLOGICAL AND VOCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS -- REFERENCES -- 14 -- Neuromuscular Disorders -- Jeffrey M. Cohen, MD, Marissa Cohler, MD, and Ludmilla Bronfin, MD -- MOTOR NEURON DISEASES/ ANTERIOR HORN CELL DISEASES -- PERIPHERAL NERVE DISEASES -- DISEASES OF THE NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION -- MUSCLE DISEASES -- EXERCISE AND NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- 15 -- Musculoskeletal Disorders -- Joseph E. Herrera, DO, FAAPMR, Jung Woo Ma, MD, and Pete-Gaye Nation, MD -- INTRODUCTION -- LOW BACK PAIN -- SHOULDER PAIN -- CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 16 -- Pediatric Disorders: Cerebral Palsy and Spina Bifida -- Joan T. Gold, MD, and David Salsberg, PsyD, DABPS -- INTRODUCTION -- CEREBRAL PALSY -- SPINA BIFIDA -- REFERENCES -- 17 -- Geriatric Rehabilitation -- Monwara Hassan, MD, Adrian Cristian, MD, and Teina Daley, OTR/L, CHT -- INTRODUCTION -- DEMOGRAPHICS -- AGING-RELATED CHANGES -- PATIENT ASSESSMENT -- GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF GERIATRIC REHABILITATION -- ASSISTIVE AND ORTHOTIC DEVICES -- SELECTED TOPICS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 18 -- Introduction to Peripheral Vascular Disorders -- Glenn R. Jacobowitz, MD -- FUNCTIONAL PRESENTATION.

PSYCHOLOGICAL AND VOCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 19 -- Limb Deficiency -- Jeffrey M. Cohen, MD, and Joan E. Edelstein, PT, MA, FISPO -- INTRODUCTION -- LOWER LIMB DEFICIENCY -- UPPER-LIMB DEFICIENCY -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- 20 -- Organ Transplantation and Rehabilitation -- Jeffrey M. Cohen, MD, Mark Young, MD, and Bryan O'Young, MD -- INTRODUCTION -- LIVER TRANSPLANTATION -- RENAL TRANSPLANTATION -- CARDIAC TRANSPLANTATION -- LUNG TRANSPLANTATION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 21 -- Psychiatric Disabilities -- Marina Kukla, MS, and Gary R. Bond, PhD -- KEY PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSES -- FUNCTIONAL PRESENTATION OF PSYCHIATRIC DISABILITY -- PROGNOSIS -- TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 22 -- Pulmonary Disorders -- Frederick A. Bevelaqua, MD, and Susan Garritan, PT, PhD, CCS -- Basic Pulmonary Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathophysiology -- EPIDEMIOLOGY OF COPD -- ASTHMA -- CYSTIC FIBROSIS -- INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASES -- ROLE OF PR IN CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 23 -- Chronic Kidney Disease -- Kotresha Neelakantappa, MD, and Jerome Lowenstein, MD -- ANATOMY OF THE NEPHRON -- CKD AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE -- FUNCTIONAL ADAPTATION TO NEPHRON LOSS -- CKD AND ITS PROGRESSION -- TREATMENT OF CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE -- TREATMENT OF END-STAGE RENAL FAILURE -- PHYSICAL REHABILITATION -- PSYCHOLOGICAL AND VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION -- REFERENCES -- 24 -- Rheumatic Diseases -- Sicy H. Lee, MD, and Steven B. Abramson, MD -- RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS -- SERONEGATIVE SPONDYLOARTHROPATHIES -- DEGENERATIVE JOINT DISEASE -- REFERENCES -- 25 -- Spinal Cord Injury -- Jung Ahn, MD, and Jeffrey Berliner, DO -- History -- Terminology -- Facts and Figures -- Psychosocial Statistics -- ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE SPINAL CORD -- REHABILITATION -- SCI: AN AILMENT TO BE CURED -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 26.

Stroke -- Michal Eisenberg, MD, and Ira Rashbaum, MD -- STROKE ETIOLOGY AND RISK FACTORS -- STROKE SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS -- COURSE AND PROGNOSIS -- ACUTE STROKE MANAGEMENT -- MEDICAL COMPLICATIONS OF STROKE -- REHABILITATION MANAGEMENT -- SPASTICITY -- MECHANISMS AND PATTERNS OF RECOVERY -- EMERGING STROKE TREATMENTS -- COMMUNITY REINTEGRATION -- VOCATIONAL RETURN -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 27 -- Visual Impairments -- Bruce P. Rosenthal, OD, FAAO, and Roy Gordon Cole, OD, FAAO -- DEFINITIONS AND STATISTICS -- MODELS OF DISABILITY -- WHERE WE HAVE COME FROM AND WHERE WE ARE -- FACTORS AFFECTING VISUAL FUNCTION AND ITS TREATMENT -- OVERVIEW OF VISION REHABILITATION -- THE ROLE OF PATHOLOGY IN VISUAL IMPAIRMENT -- MEDICARE, THIRD-PARTY COVERAGE, AND LEGISLATION -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- III: Special Topics -- 28 -- Complementary and Alternative Medicine -- Alex Moroz, MD, FACP, and Robert A. Schulman, MD -- MIND-BODY MEDICINE DOMAIN -- BIOLOGICALLY BASED PRACTICES DOMAIN -- MANIPULATIVE AND BODY-BASED PRACTICES DOMAIN -- ENERGY MEDICINE DOMAIN -- WHOLE MEDICAL SYSTEMS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 29 -- Rehabilitation Nursing: Educating Patients Toward Independence -- Jeanne Dzurenko, BSN, MPH, RN -- WHAT IS A STROKE? -- THE EFFECTS OF STROKE -- SPINAL CORD INJURY -- AMPUTEES -- OTHER NURSING CARE ISSUES -- SELF-CARE DAYS AND INDEPENDENT LIVING EXPERIENCE -- COMMUNITY REFERRALS -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- 30 -- Social Work in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation -- Patrick Inniss, PhD -- BRIEF HISTORY OF SOCIAL WORK IN HEALTH CARE -- SOCIAL WORK WITHIN THE FIELD OF REHABILITATION -- DISCHARGE PLANNING ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION -- BIO/PSYCHO/SOCIAL ASSESSMENT OF THE PATIENT IN THE FAMILY SYSTEM -- DISABILITY-SPECIFIC ISSUES -- AFTERCARE SERVICES -- FINANCIAL ISSUES -- SUMMARY -- Note.

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