Therapy Assistant Diploma Program Sample of Books, E-Books and Media

A case-based text, now with terminology consistent with the APTA's Guide to Physical Therapist Practice, uses a holistic approach to the management of individuals with amputations. Concise yet comprehensive, it discusses traumatic amputations, juvenile amputees, and the management of individuals with peripheral vascular diseases. The 2nd Edition reviews the latest technological advances in prosthetic fabrication and provides information on relevant websites.

In 1990, under the aegis of the International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics, the authors organized and co-chaired the International Consensus Conference on Amputation Surgery. Forty-nine distinguished surgeons, prosthetists, and bioengineers from ten countries participated in the five-day session. Realizing a need for greater dissemination of the findings of the conference, the authors, with over a combined century of experience in amputation surgery, prosthetic fitting, and bioengineering, expertly prepared this comprehensive new book based on the recommendations developed by the conferees. The book presents a clear and concise picture of the relationship between skilled surgery and a good prosthetic outcome. The primer is also well-illustrated with numerous line-drawings and photographs. This outstanding text will prove useful to all current and future members of the amputee health-care team. The authors also hope this primer will be especially beneficial to those surgeons who are called upon to amputate infrequently and, more importantly, to all surgeons in training.

Prosthetics and Patient Management: A Comprehensive Clinical Approach is an innovative text covering both upper and lower extremity prosthetics. All the information clinicians need to manage a range of patients with amputations and their disorders is available in this practical and all-inclusive text. Kevin Carroll and Joan E. Edelstein, together with internationally recognized leaders, present a multidisciplinary team approach to the care of a patient with an amputation. Prosthetics and Patient Management covers practical solutions to everyday problems that clinicians encounter, from early prosthetic management to issues facing the more advanced user. The text is divided into four sections encompassing the range of subjects that confront practitioners including Early Management; Rehabilitation of Patients with Lower Limb Amputation; Rehabilitation of Patients with Upper Limb Amputations; and Beyond the Basics, which includes special considerations for children and futuristic concepts. Prosthetics and Patient Management will provide expert guidance for dealing with a wide array of patients and is a must-have for clinicians and students in physical therapy, certified prosthetists, and orthopedists interested in the wide-ranging field of prosthetics and amputations.

Therapy for Amputeesis a book for ALL those who work with amputees. Written by a multidisciplinary team for a multidisciplinary readership, the book addresses all aspects of care and rehabilitation for this group of clients. The approach of the book is practical and easy to follow making it appropriate for use by the amputees themselves and those caring for them at home. It addresses the day to day problems of rehabilitation therapists and their clients in a practical way and considers the provision of care and rehabilitation for amputees as it is managed today. Originally published under the title Physiotherapy for Amputees the Roehampton Approach this new edition takes a broad team approach to this area of rehabilitation which reflects current practice. It acknowledges that the majority of clients now receive rehabilitation therapy in the general hospital setting or at home in the community. Takes a practical, problem-based approach which is easy to follow Follows a logical structure from assessment of the problems and the psychological impact on the client to evidence-based practice, audit and care protocols Addresses the concerns of the client with a chapter on Different Perspectives; The Users Point of View,and through practical advice and information for the amputees and their carers, on all aspects of their rehabilitation including details of patient/user support groups Uses the terminology adopted for International Standards Extensively referenced with contact points for access to further information on technical detail and new developments in hardware availability Highly illustrated with 280 photographs and line drawings Includes details of producers and suppliers of prosthetic equipment and components Book now multidisciplinary and multiauthor with 11 contributors from 2 expert UK based multidisciplinary teams working in Oxford and London There are 3 new chapters on: The Psychological Impact of Amputation Different Perspectives ; the users point of view (addresses patient/user support groups; patient empowerment; professional special interest groups etc) Therapy Service Quality addresses the issues of evidence based practice, standards/audit/outcome measurement: risk management, clinical guidelines, care protocols etc. Improvements to existing chapters include: In chapter 2 more on the Community Care Act, the Carer''s Recognition and Services Act, continuing healthcare provision including eligibility criteria etc. In chapter 5 more on check sockets, The Amputee Mobility Aid (AMA), advantages and disadvantages of early mobility equipment, prescription of indoor/outdoor powered wheelchairs. In chapter 9 Update on motion analysis laboratory measurements and physiotherapy biofeedback machines. In chapter 20 more on osseointegration; surgery to problem stumps; meningococcal septicaemia. Chapter 21 on Multipathology and Complex Cases extensively revised and improved. Total update of terminology to align with International Standards. Total update of information on upper and lower limb prosthetic components, (sockets, liners, cosmesis etc and now including recreational prostheses). Total update of information on wheelchairs. All 23 chapters are extensively referenced and give contact points for access to further technical detail and new developments in hardware availability from producers of prosthetic equipment and components. Incorporates information from the perspectives of providing rehabilitation in both developed and developing countries. Gives practical advice and information for the amputees and their carers concerning all aspects of their rehabilitation Also includes a general bibliography for further reading. 280 illustrations (174 line and 106 photographs of which over 60 are completely new)