Orthopaedic Rehabilitation

Part 1 The rehabilitation team: general principles of orthopaedic rehabilitation; the rationale and rewards of team care; rehabilitation nursing; physical therapy; occupational therapy; speech therapy; social work service; vocational rehabilitation; clinical psychology; internal medicine; orthopaedic surgery; the trauma surgeon and the trauma nurse; anesthesiology; the orthotist; the prosthetist; the orthopaedic technologist; clinical rehabilitation engineering. Part 2 Rehabilitation facilities: the rehabilitation center; hand rehabilitation center; spinal cord injury center; sports medicine rehabilitation center; motion analysis - lower extremity; motion analysis - upper extremity. Part 3 Basic science aspects of rehabilitation: neuromuscular physiology, function and plasticity; deletrious effects of immobilization; muscle spasticity; rehabilitation of neuromuscular disorders. Part 4 Generalized disorders: cerebral palsy; stroke - orthopaedic aspects; traumatic brain injury; anoxic brian injury; extremity disorders in spinal cord injury; heterotropic ossification; peripheral nerve injuries; poliomyelitis; brachial plexus injuries; muscular dystrophy and neurogenic atrophy; myelomeninigocele; inflammatory arthritis; posttraumatic and degenerative arthritis; orthopaedic management of hemophilic arthropathy; major fractures; amputations; compartment syndrome and Volkmann's ischemic contracture; reflex sympathetic dystrophy; chronic osteomyelitis; sports injuries. Part 5 Rehabilitation according to anatomic region: hand rehabilitation; wrist; elbow; shoulder; spine; hip; knee; ankle; foot. Part 6 Appendixes: anatomy and tests of function - nerves; skeletal anatomy; definitions of anatomic terms; terms of direction and movement; normal range of motion; muscle grading; spinal cord injury and deficit; coma scales and expectations; procedures - serial casting for joint contracture; applications and maintenance of the halo; technique of regional nerve techniques; phenol nerve block; joint aspiration and injection; functional electrical stimulation of muscle; table of prosthetics; table of orthotics.