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Occupational Therapy for Physical Dysfunction
Sixth Edition
edited by Mary Vining Radomski

Occupational Therapy for Physical Dysfunction provides a current and well-rounded view of the field— from theoretical rationale to evaluation, treatment, and follow-up.

Occupational Therapy for Physical Dysfunction features:

  • Case examples
  • Student DVD
  • Evidence tables
  • Assessment tables
  • Learning Objectives and diagrams
  • Clinical Reasoning boxes
  • Summary review questions
  • Procedures for practice boxes

Contents

Occupational Function: Definition, Process, and History

  1. Conceptual Foundations for Practice
  2. Historical and Social Foundations for Practice
  3. Planning, Guiding, and Documenting Practice

Assessment of Occupational Function

  1. Assessing Roles and Competence
  2. Assessing Abilities and Capacities: Range of Motion, Strength, and Endurance
  3. Assessing Abilities and Capacities: Motor Behavior
  4. Assessing Abilities and Capacities: Sensation
  5. Assessing Abilities and Capacities: Vision, Visual Perception, and Praxis
  6. Assessing Abilities and Capacities: Cognition
  7. Assessing Context: Personal, Social, and Cultural
  8. Assessing Environment: Home, Community, and Workplace Access

Therapeutic Mechanisms

  1. Occupation: Philosophy and Concepts
  2. Occupation as Therapy: Selection, Gradation, Analysis, and Adaption
  3. Learning
  4. Therapeutic Rapport

Therapeutic Technologies

  1. Upper Extremity Orthoses
  2. Construction of Hand Splints
  3. Wheelchair Selection
  4. High-Technology Adaptions to Compensate for Disability
  5. Physical Agent Modalities

Treatment of Occupational Function

  1. Optimizing Abilities and Capacities: Range of Motion, Strength, and Endurance
  2. Optimizing Motor Behavior Using the Occupational Therapy Task-Oriented Approach
  3. Optimizing Motor Skill Using Task-Related Training
  4. Optimizing Motor Behavior Using the Bobath Approach
  5. Optimizing Motor Behavior Using the Brunnstrom Movement Therapy Approach
...and chapters 26-37

Treatment to Promote Occupational Function for Selected Diagnostic Categories

  1. Stroke
  2. Traumatic Brain Injury
  3. Neurodegenerative Diseases
  4. Orthopaedic Conditions
  5. Hand Impairments
  6. Spinal Cord Injury
  7. Rheumatoid Arthritis, Osteoarthritis, and Fibromyalgia
...and chapters 45-50

Index

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Occupational Therapy for Physical Dysfunction
Sixth Editon
edited by Mary Vining Radomski

2008 • 1,432 pages • $80.95 + shipping
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