Hand Rehabilitation: A Quick Reference Guide and Review

✍ Scribed by Susan Weiss OTR L CHT, Nancy Falkenstein OTR L CHT

• Publisher: Mosby
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 519
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This one-of-a-kind reference provides a comprehensive overview of hand rehabilitation. Featuring a unique, question and detailed-answer format, Hand Rehabilitation guides the reader from basic information about hand anatomy through complex topics including the most advanced treatment techniques. Each chapter is formatted as a series of multiple-choice questions, complete with detailed answers and references to other hand therapy resources. There are practice questions included at the end of the book with perforated pages for detachment and copying. Also included are "clinical" gems in each chapter, providing the reader with helpful hints and important facts to remember related to certain subjects or questions.Chapters are organized in a building block fashion, beginning with anatomy and progressing to clinical application.Each chapter begins with a bulleted list of key topics.Advanced questions are denoted with an icon located after the answer/explanation, helping readers pinpoint areas requiring further study.Answer explanations include helpful references, including page numbers.A convenient Quick Reference Guide is located at the beginning of the book.The back cover contains a removable slide rule that can be removed and used in self-testing.Features a new CD-ROM that contains all the questions found in the book with rationales for correct answers. The interactive CD-ROM randomly selects questions for study by topic and can also generate practice tests.Includes two new chapters: Elbow and Sports Injuries of the Upper ExtremityFeatures a new 2-color format to emphasize important concepts in illustrations and make the book more visually appealing.Includes approximately 200 new illustrations.The self-review appendix has been expanded to 200 questions.New content has been added to the OSHA and Splinting chapters, as well as other updates and additions throughout.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover
......Page 1
Copyright
......Page 2
Contributors
......Page 3
Foreward
......Page 7
Foreward to the First Edition
......Page 9
Foreward to the First Edition
......Page 11
Preface
......Page 12
Acknowledgements
......Page 14
1. ANATOMY EXTRAVAGANZA
......Page 15
2. INTRINSIC MECHANISM
......Page 43
3. EVALUATION
......Page 63
4. NEUROANATOMY AND SENSORY REEDUCATION
......Page 81
5. MODALITIES
......Page 105
6. WOUNDS/INFECTION
......Page 119
7. FLAPS/GRAFTS/THERMAL CONDITIONS
......Page 135
8. WRIST
......Page 155
9. ELBOW
......Page 177
10. SHOULDER
......Page 191
11. FRACTURES
......Page 215
12. SPORTS INJURIES OF THE UPPER EXTREMITY
......Page 247
13. ARTHRITIS
......Page 263
14. COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME/REFLEX SYMPATHETIC DYSTROPHY
......Page 285
15. TENDONS
......Page 299
16. BIOMECHANICS AND TENDON TRANSFERS
......Page 323
17. SPLINTING
......Page 347
18. CUMULATIVE TRAUMA
......Page 365
19. DUYPUYTREN'S DISEASE AND TUMORS
......Page 393
20. CONGENTIAL ANOMALIES / AMPUTATIONS / PROSTHETICS
......Page 405
21. HODGE PODGE OF TREATMENT TECHNIQUES
......Page 421
22. OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
......Page 437
23. RESEARCH AND STATISTICS
......Page 441
APPENDIX 1: HAND ENTHUSIASTS VENDOR AND WEBSITE LIST
......Page 449
APPENDIX 2: DRUGS COMMONLY ENCOUNTERED IN HAND THERAPY
......Page 455
APPENDIX 3: NUTRITION
......Page 461
APPENDIX 4: PRACTICE QUESTIONS
......Page 467
REFERENCES
......Page 485
QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE
......Page 499