Cram Session in General Medical Conditions: A Handbook for Students and Clinicians / Edition 1

by Robb Rehberg, Joelle Rehberg

Overview

Are you a rehabilitation professional or student in need of a basic understanding of general medical conditions?

Supplemented by concise and user-friendly clinical information on the conditions, Cram Session in General Medical Conditions: A Handbook for Students & Clinicians is the perfect resource for quick and “at your fingertips” facts.

Cram Session in General Medical Conditions: A Handbook for Students & Clinicians by Dr. Robb S. Rehberg and Dr. Joelle Stabile Rehberg is a succinct and descriptive quick reference that provides the rehabilitation professional with a very basic approach to understanding various general medical conditions.

What is in your “Cram Session”:
• Breakdown of each medical condition covered
• Each condition includes the name of the condition, alternate names, description, causes, clinical presentation, symptoms, diagnosis, and management
• Includes over 125 general medical conditions in over 13 categories

Cram Session in General Medical Conditions: A Handbook for Students & Clinicians is an informative, well-organized handbook for all students and clinicians in athletic training, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and orthopedics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781556429484
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/15/2012
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Robb S. Rehberg, PhD, ATC, NREMT is an associate professor and coordinator of athletic training clinical education at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey. He also serves as an athletic trainer for Atlantic Health System/Overlook Medical Center in Summit, New Jersey, and is a founding partner of The Rehberg Konin Group. He also served as the Director and Chief of Emergency Services at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey from 1998 to 2010. Prior to teaching at William Paterson, Dr. Rehberg spent 13 years as the head athletic trainer at Westwood Regional High School in Westwood, New Jersey. Dr. Rehberg earned his doctorate (PhD) in Health Science from Touro University International in 2003, a master of sport science (MSS) degree from the United States Sports Academy in 1999; and a bachelor of science (BS) degree in Athletic Training from West Chester University in 1991. Dr. Rehberg has spent his career working in both the athletic training and emergency services fields and has published and spoken frequently at state and national meetings on sports emergency care. Dr. Rehberg served as a member of the medical staff for athletics (track and field) at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia. He is active on the state and national level, and currently serves on the National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) Research and Education Foundation’s Board of Directors. He has also served on the Inter-Association Task Force for the Appropriate Care of the Spine-Injured Athlete, the Task Force on Appropriate Medical Coverage for the Secondary School-Aged Athlete, and the NATA Hall of Fame subcommittee. Dr. Rehberg currently serves as Past-President and coordinator of Governmental Relations for the Athletic Trainers’ Society of New Jersey and as the chair of the National Safety Council Emergency Care Advisory Committee. He was a member of the American Heart Association Task Force that developed the first international guidelines for first aid in 2000. He is a charter member of the New Jersey Disaster Medical Assistance Team.        

Joelle Stabile Rehberg, DO is a sports medicine-trained primary care physician practicing sports medicine, spine, and concussion management with Atlantic Neurosurgical Specialists in Morristown, New Jersey. Dr. Rehberg also practices at the Center for Concussion Care and Physical Rehabilitation at Atlantic Health System/Overlook Medical Center in Summit, New Jersey. Dr. Rehberg has served as the team physician for Montville High School in Montville, New Jersey, for the past 10 years. She also serves as the medical director for the Athletic Training Education Program at William Paterson University, a post she has held since 2001. Dr. Rehberg graduated from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey School of Osteopathic Medicine in 1997. She completed her undergraduate studies in 1993 at Seton Hall University.

Table of Contents

Dedication
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Preface

Chapter 1 Cardiovascular Conditions

Chapter 2 Pulmonary Conditions

Chapter 3 Neurological Conditions

Chapter 4 Endocrine and Metabolic Conditions

Chapter 5 Hematological and Oncological Conditions

Chapter 6 Gastrointestinal and Hepatic/Biliary Conditions

Chapter 7 Renal, Urogenital, and Reproductive Systems

Chapter 8 Ear, Nose, and Throat Conditions

Chapter 9 Infectious Disease

Chapter 10 Dermatological Conditions

Chapter 11 Rheumatological Conditions

Chapter 12 Psychological Conditions

Chapter 13 Ophthalmological Conditions

Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Shannon M Becker, MA, BS (University of Georgia)
Description: This is an excellent quick reference to general medical conditions for rehabilitation professionals.
Purpose: It is intended as a refresher on the basics of general medical conditions, and it provides quick and useful information on conditions that may not be seen every day.
Audience: Students and clinicians are the target audience, and this book is appropriate for those in the fields of athletic training, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and orthopedics. Practitioners in these specialties are well versed in sports medicine and musculoskeletal injuries as they assess, diagnose, and manage them regularly. However, general medical conditions are not always part of their scope of practice. The two authors are an athletic trainer and a sports medicine physician, and they are well aware of the general medical conditions that sports medicine professionals should be familiar with or at least able to recognize.
Features: The book does an excellent job grouping general medical conditions into 13 categories such as cardiovascular conditions, pulmonary conditions, neurological conditions, etc. Each general medical condition is further broken down with the name or alternate name of each condition, description, causes, clinical presentation, symptoms, diagnosis, and management. This uniform presentation of each condition is the best feature of the book as it allows readers to easily find what they are looking for.
Assessment: This excellent book provides rehabilitation professionals with basic information on a large number of general medical conditions. As an athletic trainer, I'll be using this book when I need a refresher when working with athletes who may have a medical condition. Some of these medical conditions are not seen in our athletic training room every day, and this is an excellent reference for those times.

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This excellent book provides rehabilitation professionals with basic information on a large number of general medical conditions. As an athletic trainer, I’ll be using this book when I need a refresher when working with athletes who may have a medical condition.”    
- Shannon M Becker, MA, BS, Doody's Review Services

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