Rehabilitation medicine is a new and growing specialty. Rehabilitation services are now available in most UK hospitals and rehabilitation has an increasing presence in the community. There is a strong evidence base for the efficacy of rehabilitation and there is no doubt that an active interdisciplinary rehabilitation programme produces real functional benefits for the person with disabilities and their family.
The Oxford Handbook of Clinical Rehabilitation second edition, outlines the basic principles of rehabilitation and the key factors that are required for a high quality rehabilitation service. The increasingly important area of technical aids and assistive technology is covered, as well as physical problems. The book outlines the management of cognitive, behavioural and emotional problems and the rehabilitation needs of people with specific disorders. A new chapter on musculoskeletal pain in common rheumatological conditions has also been included.
The Oxford Handbook of Clinical Rehabilitation second edition is a comprehensive text that not only summarises the management of common symptoms and disorders but also outlines the increasing evidence base for the efficacy of these techniques. This new edition has been fully revised to appeal to the whole rehabilitation team, including junior doctors training in rehabilitation and associated specialties, senior therapists, psychologists, nurses, physiotherapists, GPs, primary care teams, and intermediate care teams.
1: Concepts of rehabilitation
2: Epidemiology
3: The rehabilitation team
4: Organisation of services
5: Assessment of disability
6: Spasticity
7: Continence
8: Sex and sexuality
9: Eating and swallowing disorders
10: Communication
11: Other physical problems
12: Technical aids and assistive technology
13: Behavioural disorders
14: Psychological problems and rehabilitation
15: Cognitive and intellectual function
16: Participation issues in rehabilitation
17: Multiple sclerosis
18: Stroke
19: Traumatic brain injury
20: Spinal cord injury
21: Parkinson's disease and movement disorders
22: Motor neuron diseases
23: Disorders of the peripheral nerve
24: Epilepsy
25: Dementia
26: Musculoskeletal pain in common rheumatological conditions
27: Spinal pain and soft tissue rheumatism
28: Amputation
29: Ageing and disability
Anthony Ward, Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine, North Staffordshire Regional Rehabilitation Unit, Stoke on Trent, UK, Michael Barnes, Professor of Neurological Rehabilitation, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, Sandra Stark, Clinical Lead for Neurorehabilitation/Allied Health Professional Lead, Walkergate Park International Centre for Neurorehabilitation and Neuropsychiatry, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, and Sarah Ryan, Consultant Nurse at the Staffordshire Rheumatology Centre, Haywood Hospital, Stoke on Trent, UK
Both Michael Barnes and Anthony Ward are Past-Presidents of the British Society of Rehabilitation Medicine. Michael Barnes is currently Founder President of the World Federation for Neurorehabilitation and Anthony Ward has recently demitted office as President of the Union of European Medical Specialists Section of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine.
Sandra Stark is the Clinical Lead for Neurorehabilitation/Allied Health Professional Lead at the Walkergate Park International Centre for Neurorehabilitation and Neuropsychiatry in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. She qualified as a Chartered Physiotherapist in 1983. Sandra gained an MSc in Rehabilitation Management in 1995 and is a specialist in spasticity management and neurophysiotherapy, and is one of the first physiotherapists in the UK to give botulinum injections. Sandra gained her first team leader role within neurorehabilitation in 1992 at Hunters Moor Regional Neurological Rehabilitation Centre.
Sarah Ryan is a consultant nurse in rheumatology, at Staffordshire Rheumatology Centre, Haywood Hospital, Stoke on Trent. She graduated from Leeds Polytechnic in 1992, and has since won the Nursing Times Research Fellowship, January 2000, the West Midlands Innovation in Practice Award in 2001 for the development of a nurse led musculo-skeletal chronic pain service, and most recently, the Fellowship of the Royal College of Nursing in 2003.