Here is the only comprehensive, curriculum-spanning text for students and a key reference for practitioners! It focuses on the rehabilitation management of adult patients, integrating basic surgical, medical, and therapeutic concepts to explain how to select appropriate examination procedures and to develop treatment goals and plans. The more user friendly 5th Edition features a new, two-color design and more photographs, illustrations and tables.

I. Introduction to Patient Care: Decision Making, Psychosocial Factors, and Values 1. Clinical Decision Making 2. Influence of Psychosocial Factors on Rehabilitation 3. Influence of Values on Patient Care: Foundation for Decision Making II. Examination 4. Vital Signs 5. Examination of Sensory Function 6. Musculoskeletal Examination 7. Examination of Coordination 8. Examination of Motor Function: Motor Control and Motor Learning 9. Electromyography and Nerve Conduction Velocity Tests 10. Examination of Gait 11. Examination of Functional Status and Activity Level 12. Examination of the Environment III. Intervention Strategies for Rehabilitation 13. Strategies to Improve Motor Function 14. Locomotor Training 15. Chronic Pulmonary Dysfunction 16. Heart Disease 17. Vascular, Lymphatic, and Integumentary Disorders 18. Stroke 19. Multiple Sclerosis 20. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis 21. Parkinson?s Disease 22. Traumatic Brain Injury 23. Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury 24. Vestibular Disorder 25. Amputation 26. Arthritis 27. Burns 28. Chronic Pain 29. Cognitive and Perceptual Dysfunction 30. Neurogenic Disorders of Speech and Language IV. Orthotics, Prosthetics, and the Prescriptive Wheelchair 31. Orthotics 32. Prosthetics 33. The Prescriptive Wheelchair Glossary