Here is a practical, step-by-step guide to understanding the treatment process and selecting the most appropriate intervention for your patient. Superbly illustrated, in-depth coverage shows you how to identify functional deficits, determine what treatments are appropriate, and then to implement them to achieve the best functional outcome for your patients.

Table of Contents

• PREFACE
• CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS
• CASE STUDY CONTRIBUTORS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• PART I: Promoting Function
• Preface
• CHAPTER 1: Framework for Clinical Decision-Making and Patient Management - SUSAN B. O'SULLIVAN, PT, EdD
• CHAPTER 2: Interventions to Improve Motor Function - SUSAN B. O'SULLIVAN, PT, EdD
• CHAPTER 3: Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation - SUSAN B. O'SULLIVAN, PT, EdD
• CHAPTER 4: Interventions to Improve Bed Mobility and Early Trunk Control - CRISTIANA K. COLLINS, PT, PhD, CFMT, NCS Vicky Saliba Johnson, PT, FAAOMPT Thomas J. Schmitz, PT, PhD
• APPENDIX 4A: Advanced Bridging Activities
• CHAPTER 5: Interventions to Improve Sitting and Sitting Balance Skills - SUSAN B. O'SULLIVAN, PT, EdD Edward W. Bezkor, PT, DPT, OCS, MTC
• APPENDIX 5A: Seated Tai Chi Sequence
• CHAPTER 6: Interventions to Improve Intermediate Trunk and Hip Control: Kneeling and Half-Kneeling Skills - THOMAS J. SCHMITZ, PT, PhD
• CHAPTER 7: Interventions to Improve Transfer Skills - GEORGE D. FULK, PT, PhD Coby Nirider, PT, DPT
• CHAPTER 8: Interventions to Improve Wheelchair Skills - George D. Fulk, PT, PhD Jennifer Hastings, PT, PhD, NCS
• CHAPTER 9: Interventions to Improve Standing and Standing Balance Skills - JOANN MORIARTY-BARON, PT, DPT Susan B. O'Sullivan, PT, EdD
• APPENDIX 9A: Equipment Resources
• CHAPTER 10: Interventions to Improve Locomotor Skills - CRISTIANA K. COLLINS, PT, PhD, CFMT, NCS Thomas J. Schmitz, PT, PhD
• APPENDIX 10A Example of Selection, Sequencing, and Progression of Interventions Within the Context of Two Subsequent Treatment Sessions for a Patient with Traumatic Brain Injury (Case Study 2)
• CHAPTER 11: Interventions to Improve Upper Extremity Skills - SHARON A. GUTMAN, PhD, OTR MARIANNE H. MORTERA, PhD, OTR
• CHAPTER 12: Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy - DAVID M. MORRIS, PT, PhD EDWARD TAUB, PhD
• CHAPTER 13: Interventions for Vestibular Rehabilitation - JOANN MORIARTY-BARON, PT, DPT
• PART II Case Studies - EDWARD W. BEZCOR, PT, DPT, MTC, Case Studies and Multimedia Editor
• Preface
• CASE STUDY 1: Patient With Traumatic Brain Injury - TEMPLE T. COWDEN, PT, MPT
• CASE STUDY 2: Patient With Traumatic Brain Injury: Balance and Locomotor Training - HEIDI ROTH, PT, MSPT, NCS JASON BARBAS, PT, MPT, NCS
• CASE STUDY 3: Patient With Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury, T4: Locomotor Training - ELIZABETH ARDOLINO, PT, MS ELIZABETH WATSON, PT, DPT, NCS ANDREA L. BEHRMAN, PT, PhD SUSAN HARKEMA, PhD MARY SCHMIDT-READ, PT, DPT, MS
• CASE STUDY 4: Patient With Stroke: Home Care Rehabilitation - LYNN WONG, PT, DPT, MS, GCS
• CASE STUDY 5 Patient With Stroke: Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy - DAVID M. MORRIS, PT, PhD SONYA L. PEARSON, PT, DPT EDWARD TAUB, PhD
• CASE STUDY 6 Patient With Parkinson's Disease - EDWARD W. BEZKOR, PT, DPT, OCS, MTC
• CASE STUDY 7: Patient With Complete Spinal Cord Injury, T9 - PAULA ACKERMAN, MS, OTR/L Myrtice Atrice, PT, BS Teresa Foy, BS, OTR/L Sarah Morrison, PT, BS Polly Hopkins, MOTR/L Shari Mcdowell, PT, BS
• CASE STUDY 8 Patient With Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury, C7 - MARIA STELMACH, PT, DPT, NCS Sophie Benoist, PT, DPT
• CASE STUDY 9 Patient With Peripheral Vestibular Dysfunction - JOANN MORIARTY-BARON, PT, DPT
• CASE STUDY 10 Patient With Complete Spinal Cord Injury, T10 - DARRELL MUSICK, PT Laura S. Wehrli, PT, DPT, ATP
• CASE STUDY 11 Patient With Cerebellar Glioblastoma 394 - CATHERINE PRINTZ, PT, DPT, NCS Melissa S. Doyle, PT, DPT, NCS Carter Mcelroy, PT, MT
• CASE STUDY 12 Patient With Guillain Barré Syndrome and Tetraplegia - KATE ROUGH, PT, DPT, NCS Victoria Stevens, PT, NCS Stacia Lee, PT, NCS Katie R. Sweet, PT, DPT
• CASE STUDY 13 Patient With Stroke - LAUREN SNOWDON, PT, DPT, ATP
• CASE STUDY 14 Patient With Motor Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury, C4 409 - SALLY M. TAYLOR, PT, DPT, NCS
• CASE STUDY 15 Patient With Transfemoral Amputation - KYLA L. DUNLAVEY, PT, MPT, OCS BARRI L. SCHNALL, PT, MPT