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By Margaret A. Turk, Nancy R. Mudrick

This quantity in The SAGE Reference sequence on incapacity explores concerns related to rehabilitation interventions and treatments. it really is one in every of 8 volumes within the cross-disciplinary and issues-based sequence, which includes hyperlinks from various fields making up incapacity stories as volumes research issues imperative to the lives of people with disabilities and their households. With a stability of heritage, idea, study, and alertness, experts set out the findings and implications of analysis and perform for others whose present or destiny paintings consists of the care and/or learn of these with disabilities, in addition to for the disabled themselves. The presentational kind (concise and interesting) emphasizes accessibility. Taken separately, each one quantity units out the basics of the subject it addresses, observed through compiled information and information, urged extra readings, a consultant to companies and institutions, and different annotated assets, therefore supplying the precise introductory platform and gateway for extra examine. Taken jointly, the sequence represents either a survey of significant incapacity concerns and a consultant to new instructions and developments and modern assets within the box as an entire.

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Department of Labor, 2011). Social workers are licensed by their state. Case Managers Case management is a relatively new concept that has come about with the survival of patients/consumers with complex medical problems and disabilities, and with the development of a more complex health care system. Case managers possess skills and credentials within other health professions, such as nursing, counseling, or therapies, although they usually have a nursing background. These professionals collaborate with all service providers and link the needs and values of the patient/consumer with appropriate services and providers within the continuum of health care.

Spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, stroke, amputation, low back pain, peripheral nerve injury, cerebral palsy). , biomechanics, gait and movement analysis, development and aging, team process). In general, physiatrists are referred to as physicians of function. Physicians are required to obtain a license to practice from each state. Certification, although not required, has become the standard. org). , Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Pulmonology for cardiopulmonary rehabilitation; Neurology for multiple sclerosis rehabilitation; Pediatrics for autism rehabilitation; Ophthalmology for vision rehabilitation; Otolaryngology for hearing rehabilitation).

They are expert at bladder management, bowel management, and skin care, and they provide education to patients and families about these important areas and also medications to be used at home after discharge. Activities developed within the active therapeutic rehabilitation programs are routinely used and practiced, such as dressing, bathing, feeding, toileting, transfers to and from wheelchairs, and mobility. Rehabilitation nurses initially attain a nursing degree and then can be certified through the Certified Registered Rehabilitation Nurse (CRRN) program, with eligibility requirements including a bachelor’s degree in nursing.

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