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*Uniquely written from the perspective of someone who has suffered a stroke

*Utilizes everyday objects to perform exercisesTeaches how to record and plot recovery ... Read more

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hoped for more information
This book deals largely with measuring improvements in dexterity. because my stroke progress is hard to see inprovements, I can see the value. I was looking for tips in developing initition of my fingers and there is next to nothing on that. 4 months after, no voluntary fingermotion. just reflexes! ... Read more

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The revised, updated Second Edition of this text reflectscontemporary practice in occupational therapy in mental health settingsand is even more comprehensive and user-friendly than the originaledition. A timely new chapter focuses on special patientpopulations--alcohol and substance abusers; homeless persons; andpersons with AIDS, eating disorders, and multiple personality disorder.Other new chapters explain the applications of DSM-III-R diagnoses tooccupational therapy and describe techniques for developing patients'expressive and coping skills. All chapters from the original editionhave been updated with the most recent clinical and research data andwith current references.A concise study guide prepared by the authoris also available and will be an extremely helpful companion to thetext. ... Read more

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Phenomenal Review of the Role of OT in Mental Health
Early provides an excellent, extensive review of all aspects of OT in the mental health setting. The book should be used by all OT practitioners, both OTRs and COTAs, in practice. The work defines most conditions encountered, the characteristics and behaviors of such conditions, and specific adaptations to therapeutic media, the environment, and one's attitude and conduct to best address such conditions.

A Must Have for the OT Student!!
M.B. Early is a great writer!! She makes the mental health area of OT easy to understand. She uses basic ideas and common terminology. This is a wonderful book for OT and OTA students. Early has really helped me to comprehend the mental health aspect. From an OTA student. ... Read more

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The book title says it all: "OT for Children"
This resource provides an overview of many conditions found in pediatric treatment. The reviews of developmental progressions of all ADLs, pre-writing, fine motor, gross motor, cognitive, and other skills are presented both in concise, outline form and in paragraph form for more details. All chapters are well-organized, and focused on OT practice, while the section by Exner on the Development of Hand Skills is exceptional. This is a MUST HAVE resource for OT working in pediatrics.

essential reading
As a Paediatric Occupational Therapist I find this book a valuable resource in my department. ... Read more

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It is the responsibility of the civil aviation medical examiner (AME) and military flight surgeon to determine fitness to fly or "aeromedical disposition." In order to do so, it is necessary to have an understanding of the appropriate medical standards. This book, authored by four leaders in clinical aviation medicine, provides guidance to AMEs and flight surgeons who must determine aeromedical disposition. It discusses the most common diseases and treatment modalities with particular emphasis upon their significance in an aviation environment. ... Read more

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Great for studying for the exam
These cards were very helpful for studying for the exam. They were a great review for me. They also allowed me to see what my weakest areas were. The cards were convenient and very portable. I could easily take the box or just a few cards to work to study when I had time.The cards outlined key points and concepts. I would recommend using these cards as a supplement to other study materials that you are using, but don't rely on these cards alone. You will need to refer to other sources for more in depth knowledge.
As a practicing OT, I occasionally refer to these cards to refresh my mind on unfamiliar topics.

OT Review Cards in a Box
I felt these cards were convient and easy to follow. I am using them for review for my certification exam. I do believe that these cards would be helpfull to use in school. The thing I like most is you can carry this info in a box and its easier than using 2-3 books and notes from class ... Read more

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Those new to the occupational therapy field will find this conveniently sized guide a godsend in their first days on the job. Organized alphabetically by condition, this handy reference concisely details standard OT assessment processes and offers a brief introduction and etiology for each condition. ... Read more

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Another GOOD book for occupational health
Very good self explanation with updated information. ... Read more

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Get the latest information on evidence-based prevention and rehabilitation approaches from an internationally recognized expert; and learn how to apply the principles to low back disorders and low back pain in industry, sport, and everyday settings.

Low Back Disorders: Evidence-Based Prevention and Rehabilitation provides professionals with the foundation to make the best clinical decisions for building the best prevention and rehabilitation programs. The author’s unique research results quantify forces that specific movements and exercises impose on the low back. The text identifies commonly prescribed practices that are, in fact, contraindicated in promoting back health. Additionally, it provides appropriate strategies to offset injuries and restore function. Low Back Disorders will build your understanding of the science behind appropriate practices so that you can use them effectively with clients and patients.

The book presents a clear exposition of back anatomy and biomechanics. It also provides the evidence to dispel myths regarding spine stabilization exercise and various prevention approaches. For example, the quantification of stability will show which muscles are important and which exercises groove motor patterns to ensure spine stability.

With Low Back Disorders, you will gain valuable information on measured loading of the back during specific activities and apply it to avoid common—but counterproductive—practices in back rehab, learn how to analyze patients’ and clients’ unique physical characteristics and lifestyle factors and tailor treatments and preventive measures to their individual needs, and learn how to help patients and clients achieve the low back stability required to prevent future damage and back pain. You'll also acquire the information necessary to prescribe effective exercises clearly and easily.

The text offers practical guidelines for developing optimal exercise regimens and over 40 tests and exercises for diagnosis and prevention of low back pain, carefully selected or developed based on measured biomechanical factors.

Low Back Disorders addresses in detail the ergonomic issues related to manual materials handling and injuries and low back pain associated with seated work and sport, and throughout the book it reinforces their application in functional activities. ... Read more

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Everyone who treats Low Back Pain needs to read this book
I have been using this text in my office for over a year, and rarely a day goes by that I don't reference information from Dr. McGill's wonderful book. It is a scientifically detailed and rich text which translates it's trenendous quantification of the tolerances, characteristics and capacities of the human spine into practicle clinical application that is well understood by the clinician and patient alike. All physical medicine specialists should be required to read this book.

An appreciative reference to psychosocial issues is made, yet, the currently vogue practice of looking purely to psychosocial considerations and de-emphasising the biological/biomechanical components of back injury is challenged. The current approach is a Biopsychosocial one, and Proff. McGill fills this book with concrete reasons not to ignore the physical characteristics of the spine. He makes the point, that is dramatically clear in day to day clinical practice, that with effective care based on sound principles many of the pschosocial issues become much more manageable.

In this text common beliefs and practices are rigorously scrutinized experimentally so as to better understand the clinical rationalle. When strategies for injury prevention are found to be unsound, alternatives commiserate with biomechanical and practicle sefety considerations are offered with sound data based reasoning given.

One of the most unique and valuable features of this text is that throughout the Scientific Foundations chapters, which describ the laboratory based biomechanical data in grand detail, are relatively short "Clinical Relavence" sections. These prominent and easy to read sections take the data just described and provide remarkably practicle applications of this knowledge. This feature has been tremendously helpful in my practice as it has allowed me to make strong recommendations to my patients with the ability to educate them as to why. Their understanding has increased compliance and empowered them by adding to their ability to help themselves.

Thank you Dr.McGill for such an in depth scientific analysis of a complex problem that is so remarkably practicle as a resource.

Outdstanding infromation
McGill's book is a remarkable source of infromation based on solid research and a clear source of prudent advice for preventing back injury and for managing chronic low back problems. Having suffered from an old low back injury for many years I find it the first book that presents data on why and how to manage back problems. Clearly written and extensively documented it should benefit both those who help manage back problems as well as sufferers themselves. As a physician, I highly recommend it to other physicians, phyical therapists and those who want information and cogent advice about one of the bugaboos of life.

"Low Back Disorders" delivers!
I've had 42 years of intense back problems and had fusion of the last three lumbar vertebrae and S-1. Prior to reading the book and applying the recommended exercises, I was bedridden up to 20 hours a day for weeks. After trying the FIRST SET of the "Big Three" exercises, I noticed a slight improvement in the back! Within a week, I was hiking in the mountains and two weeks later skiing! Following the book's suggestions has given me a pain-free life of mobility.

If you are an exercise traditionalist, prepare for a shock. This book turns the world of back exercises upside down! Almost everything I had learned-and I was a coach-was incorrect and would lead to tissue injury according to research. I should have been born in Missouri, because my mantra is "Prove it to me!" My natural skepticism melted away as Prof. McGill presented scientific evidence to bolster his statements. He lists numerous pages of investigative results to give credence to the findings. Illustrations and commentary explain clearly the proper way to exercise to protect the back as you build endurance in the torso. It is written to address the minutia desired by professionals, but lucid enough in explanations to satisfy the "anatomy-challenged."

If you are frustrated with low back pain and its deleterious effect on your personality and living, this book delivers!

Help for Sufferers of Low Back Pain
This is a superb book that is useful for both clinicians and patients alike. Using methods based on electromyographic measurements published by McGill and his colleagues in many scientific journals, he ascertains which muscles are activated in a variety of exercises. This becomes important for patients who have low back problems and must avoid heavy spine loads both in the fitness center and at work. He lists a variety of commonly prescribed exercises that should be avoided by persons with low back problems: sit ups, pelvic tilts, leg raises, low back extension exercises on machines and hip flexion exercises using the Roman chair. He then recommends a series of exercises that are designed to strengthen back muscles and stabilize the spine while at the same time minimizing spinal compression that could exacerbate back problems: the curl-up, side bridges and "bird dog" leg extensions.

This book should be recommended reading for all physical therapists and strength trainers with clients having low back problems and is a must for those suffering from low back pains.

An Investigation of the Role of Biomechanics in LBP
This impressive text sets out with the ambitious task of condensing over two decades of the author's research on the understanding of low back biomechanics. However, this text is not an abstract academic work. Much of Professor McGill's work involves developing conservative rehabilitation programs for individuals with chronic, treatment-resistant, low back pain, with particular focus on ergonomics, posture, and selective exercises.

This well-illustrated text is organized into brief, reader-friendly, chapters that explain the issues surrounding low back disorders, and specific issues of clinical relevance are indicated. Noteworthy is the emphasis placed on developing individual, as opposed to formulaic, strategies for patients. The chapter on epidemiological studies provides findings that argue for the role of both physical and psychosocial factors in the etiology and perpetuation of low back disorders. However, given the author's area of expertise, the text is primarily focused on the understanding of lumbar biomechanics and the impact of different activities and exercises on the low back.

The author examines, and dispels, a number of myths surrounding low back disorders and their care. Some revelations are: lumbar vertebras serve as shock absorbers of the spine as opposed to the discs, the use of exercises that engage hip flexors (i.e. bent knee sit-ups) are likely to aggravate low back disorders, and exercise programs that emphasize spinal mobility or early morning exercise can actually exacerbate low back problems. These and many other discussions within this text are invaluable in understanding why many traditional active approaches to rehabilitation of low back disorders are unlikely to produce results, and may even compound the original injury.

The chapters on evaluation of patients and development of appropriate, patient-specific, exercise programs are invaluable to clinicians. Once the preceding chapters to evaluation and treatment have been understood, the reader is easily able to use the information in these chapters to approach low back disorders with a thorough understanding of the relevant biomechanical issues. More importantly, this understanding allows for explanation to patients why some activities aggravate their low back pain while others do not, and why previous exercise programs failed to produce results. Patients are encouraged to become active participants in their recovery process and to become 'experts' in their own particular low back disorder. This seminal text provides a comprehensive and practical overview of current information on management of low back disorders, from a biomechanical perspective, that is simply unavailable elsewhere. Low Back Disorders: Evidence-Based Prevention and Rehabilitation is an invaluable addition to any clinician's library. ... Read more

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ACSM’s Worksite Health Promotion Manual is the most practical resource of its kind, giving students and professionals alike the most useful information available to start, run, and evaluate worksite programs.

Editor Carolyn Cox, PhD, CHES, expertly compiles dozens of proven and implemented ideas and examples from 30 of the top practitioners, researchers, and leaders in the field, making the manual a day-to-day resource for working health promotion practitioners. The hands-on text stresses the importance of making worksite health promotion relevant to today’s top business leaders in order to ensure its long-term success.

Worksite health promotion traditionally has taken a back seat to business and medicine, in part because of consumer attitudes: People don’t want to do what they should. For the minority who do, the benefits take time, sometimes years, to achieve. ACSM’s Worksite Health Promotion Manual predicts that the profession will only grow and flourish if practitioners successfully relate their work to business objectives and medical outcomes, to consumers and corporations, and to everyday performance as well as long-term health.

The five-part text features easy-to-read sections that allow readers to find specific information quickly. Other features include the following:
· Lists of resources that professionals can use to maximize program efficiency and cost effectiveness
· Examples of best practices from the profession
· Icons that highlight important principles in each section
· A comprehensive appendix that contains 15 forms designed to guide businesses through various aspects of worksite health promotion
· Popular Web sites for health promotion

Part I, "Building a Strong Foundation," advocates that all interventions and planning be based on proven theory, encouraging practitioners to foster more partnerships to be successful.

Part II, "Operation Processes That Work," reviews the four cornerstones of an effective health promotion program and their interdependency: needs assessment and evaluation, health culture development, effective interventions, and relapse prevention.

Part III, "Development Strategies for Mature Programs," offers current resources to help practitioners revitalize and continue to develop existing programs.

Part IV, "Reengineering for Mature Programs," challenges programs to find and use a variety of tools and processes to break away from the status quo, ultimately improving the creative and innovative process.

Part V, "The Twenty-First Century Challenge," presents viewpoints of other movements that are influencing health promotion.

ACSM’s Worksite Health Promotion Manual is an ideal reference for professionals who are setting up, running, and evaluating on-the-job programs. It’s the most practical, hands-on tool available for worksite health promotion practitioners, complete with real-world case studies and objectives to help with healthy worksite promotion. ... Read more

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Therapeutic Exercise:Moving Toward Function
This is an excellent all around manual for the physical therapy student or clinician. It conscisely and effectively covers all of the major areas of orthopedics with a review of neurological and musculoskeletal function and injuries. Hall uses well layed-out diagrams to provide a basis for diagnosis and then treatment with therapeutic exercise. This book is a great reference to add to your book shelf. ... Read more

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This title is part of the UniversityOfHealthCare/ UniversityOfBusiness Interactive Training Library, which offers authoritative, clearly written material in an interactive form for better comprehension and documentation of completion. The manual accompanying the CD provides a summary of the major points of the CD in a handy format.The OSHA Management Certificate Program will certify your knowledge of OSHA compliance management while teaching you how to run an OSHA program and prevent injuries. It includes the following courses: Workplace Violence, Bloodborne Pathogens, Repetitive Strain Injury, Hazard Communications, Control of Hazardous Energy, Medical Recordkeeping, OSHA Penalty Policies, and Surviving OSHA Inspections. (Many of these courses are also relevant for hospital OSHA and JCAHO management.) After investing 15-25 hours in this program, you will have attained a superb knowledge of OSHA regulations and how to administer them. 1059 pages on CD. 195 pages in the manual include handy printouts of many OSHA regulations. You must have Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher running on your computer. Supported operating systems are Windows 95, 98, 98 SE, ME, 2000, or XP. You will need Internet access to e-mail us your unique key and receive a password key. License is for one user on one computer. An additional computer owned by the same user will generally be approved at the discretion of the publisher. ... Read more

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Nurses working with childbearing families face a variety new challenges, including shortened lengths of hospital stay, the trend toward greater use of community-based and home care, and downsizing and mergers of health-care systems. This pocket guide is an ideal resource providing vital information to guide maternal-newborn nurses from pregnancy to the postpartum and newborn stages.It features drug guides, procedures, and common abbreviations for terminology.For student nurses gaining clinical experience. ... Read more

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This comprehensive reference for attorneys involved in asbestos litigation includes a complete historical perspective of prior-and ongoing-litigation and covers the evolving knowledge of asbestos hazards, both in open literature and with particular attention to the main defendants in these cases.

The new fourth edition of Asbestos: Medical and Legal Aspects equips the attorney preparing a case with crucial information, materials, and resources, including evaluations of the main defense arguments and analyses of unpublished records.

The book covers in detail:

* Asbestosis and cancer
* Compensability of asbestosis and cancer as occupational diseases
* Thresholds and standards used to determine safe or acceptable levels of asbestos exposure in the workplace
* Company knowledge of asbestos hazards, gleaned from countless depositions, company records, industry consultants, and trade associations. ... Read more

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Asbestos Legal Aspects
It is avery usefull book to people involved in litigation agaisnt asbestos companies. It allow you to use the long experience in this subject carried out in USA and other countries and the Companies strategies for avoiding their liabilities. ... Read more

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Many health and scientific professionals require a basic understanding of radiological safety principles, even and especially if they are not specialists in radiological health. Principles of Radiological Health and Safety is designed for this purpose as well as a resource for safety personnel who also handle radiation safety duties. It is a text of basic concepts needed in broad-based protection programs, with real-world examples and practice problems to demonstrate principles and hone skills.

Resource data for practical problems in radiation protection are provided along with illustrative examples of their use. For example, modes and energies of radioactive transformation, radiation attenuation and absorption, dose coefficients, and environmental transport parameters are included for many of the common circumstances encountered in laboratory and industrial settings. these are cross referenced to standard compendiums for straightforward use when more in-depth listings need to be consulted. Other topics include:

-Atom structure and radioactivity
-Radiation protection standards and programs
-Radiation interactions and dose
-Environmental radiological assessment
-Radiation shielding
-Radon
-Internal radiation dosimetry
-Radioactive waste

Safety professionals as well as students and teachers will find Principles of Radiological Health and Safety to be an invaluable addition to their professional and academic libraries. ... Read more

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Occupational epidemiology has emerged as a distinct subdiscipline of epidemiology and occupational medicine, addressing fundamental public health and scientific questions relating to the specification of exposure-response relationships, assessment of the adequacy of occupational exposure guidelines, and extrapolation of hazardous effects to other settings. This book reviews the wide range of principles and methods used in epidemiologic studies of working populations.It describes the historical development of occupational epidemiology, the approaches to characterizing workplace exposures, and the methods for designing and implementing epidemiologic studies.The relative strengths and limitations of different study designs are emphasized. Also included are more advanced discussions of statistical analysis, the estimation of doses to biological targets, and applications of the data derived from occupational epidemiology studies to disease modeling and risk assessment.The volume will serve both as a textbook in epidemiology and occupational medicine courses and as a practical handbook for the design, implementation, and interpretation of research in this field. ... Read more

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This volume is the standard-setting reference on one of thecommonest and most challenging problems in contemporary clinicalpractice--the management of otherwise healthy people with regionalmusculoskeletal symptoms that cause occupational incapacity. Dr. Hadleris the world's foremost expert on occupational musculoskeletaldisorders, and this book is a synthesis of his two decades ofpioneering work. Dr. Hadler presents a practical approach to assessing,managing, and counseling the patient seeking treatment for suchsymptoms and the claimant seeking compensation for disability orwork-related injury. Central to his approach is his keen insight intohow people perceive and cope with the predicament of musculoskeletalillness and how these perceptions impact on the physician-patientinteraction. The book offers detailed guidelines on diagnosis andmanagement of each specific regional musculoskeletal illness and ondisability determination. ... Read more

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Obfuscation meets Occupation
Dr. Hadler has written here a book that is turgid, but not so much with content. Rather, the book is a reliquary for 50 cent words and abstruse sentence structure. Although I purchased the book to augment my diagnosis and treatment of work-related musculoskeletal disease (MSD), I ended up reading passages to challenge my fellow workers to decipher.

Here's an example:
"Seduced by the promise of dramatic diagnosis, of unbridled interventions for cure, and the largesse of wage replacement or more, the American worker has been urged on by surgeons, lawyers, and common practice to confront the contest of causation with escalating vigor." -- page 231

and:

"Medicine has been remiss in focusing on that portion of the experience of morbidity that operates within and under medical purview." -- page 19

In addition, Dr. Hadler seems obsessed with the use of the words "predicament" and "ubiquitous".

Beyond the prose, I have a problem with the book's presentation of subject matter. Rather than a authoritative textbook format with citations, Dr. Hadler meanders through conjecture, anecdotes and fact, citing supporting studies from time to time. Sometimes, the paragraphs tighten into textbook format statements. But, given the brief nature of the discussion, it appears that these paragraphs are written in haste. These paragraphs lack essential physical diagnosis and treatment details.

In summary, this book lacks the crucial information that physicians need to develop good practice skills. Instead, it is filled with flowery conversation written in a Jane Austin-style circumlocution. Unless you are a very un-busy physician, you won't enjoy this book.

Dr. Hadler's Occupational Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2nd Ed.
Few problems that patients have are more contentious and confusing than the occupational musculoskeletal disorders. As Dr. Hadler documents, conditions like persistent low back pain, neck pain, and arm pain have not yielded to simple mechanical explaniations nor to simple mechanical cures. This book is about why that is. In his passionate, lively, inimitable way, Dr. Hadler examines the physiology, the social psychology, and even the policies that influence these disorders. In the process, he has written a medical textbook unlike any other you will come across. It is part practical guide to the care of the patient with regional musculoskeletal symptoms, part history text, and part polemic. And it could change the way we all think about these common and troubling conditions. ... Read more