Title Tetraplegia and paraplegia : a guide for physiotherapists / Ida Bromley ; illustrated by Janet Plested, Jane Upton

Edition Fourth edition Published Edinburgh ; New York : Churchill Livingstone, 1991

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WATERFT HEALTH	616.837062 Bro/Tap 1991		AVAILABLE

Description xi, 219 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Contents 1. Spinal cord injury -- 2. Physiological effects and their initial management -- 3. Patient-centred practice -- 4. The acute lesion -- 5. Respiratory therapy -- 6. Pressure -- effects and prevention -- 7. Initial physical re-education -- 8. Personal independence -- 9. The biomechanical principles used in transferring -- 10. Basic functional movements -- 11. Wheelchairs and wheelchair management -- 12. Transfers -- 13. Gait training -- 14. Ultra-high lesions -- 15. The incomplete spinal lesion -- 16. Spinal cord injury in children -- 17. Ageing with spinal cord injury -- 18. Complications -- 19. Sport in rehabilitation -- App. 1. ASIA scale (a) : standard neurological classification of spinal cord injury -- App. 2. ASIA scale (b) : functional independence measure and impairment scale -- App. 3. Spinal cord independence measure -- App. 4. Major segmental innervation of the muscles of the upper limb -- App. 5. Major segmental innervation of the muscles of the lower limb -- App. 6. Functional independence -- App. 7. Segmental innervation of the skin Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-216) and index Subject Paraplegia -- Physical therapy. Paraplegia -- Rehabilitation. Physical therapy. Quadriplegia -- Physical therapy. Quadriplegia -- Rehabilitation. Paraplegia -- rehabilitation. Physical Therapy Modalities. Physical therapy Quadriplegia -- rehabilitation. LC no. 90015169 ISBN 0443042152

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