Pedretti's Occupational Therapy: Practice Skills for Physical Dysfunction

by Heidi McHugh Pendleton PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, Winifred Schultz-Krohn PhD, OTR/L, BCP, SWC, FAOTA

Overview

Gain the knowledge and skills you need to treat patients with physical disabilities! Pedretti's Occupational Therapy: Practice Skills for Physical Dysfunction, 9th Edition uses a case-based approach to provide a solid foundation in evaluation, intervention, and clinical reasoning. With the OT practice framework as a guide, you will focus on the core concepts and central goals of patient care. And by studying threaded case studies, you will learn to apply theory to clinical practice. Written by a team of expert OT educators and professionals led by Heidi McHugh Pendleton and Winifred Schultz-Krohn, this edition includes an eBook free with each new print purchase, featuring video clips of OT skills and a fully searchable version of the entire text

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780323792554
Publisher:	Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date:	07/18/2024
Edition description:	9th ed.
Pages:	1384
Sales rank:	556,625
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.88(h) x 0.00(d)

Table of Contents

1 The Occupational Therapy Practice Framework and the Practice of Occupational Therapy for People With Physical Disabilities

2 History and Practice Trends in Physical Dysfunction Intervention

PART II Occupational Therapy Process and Practice

3 Application of the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework to Physical Dysfunction

4 Evidence-Based Practice for Occupational Therapy

5 Health Promotion and Well-Being for People With Physical Disabilities

6 Personal and Social Contexts of Disability: Implications for Occupational Therapists

7 Teaching Activities in Occupational Therapy

8 Documentation of Occupational Therapy Services

9 Infection Control and Safety Issues in the Clinic

PART III  Occupational Performance and the Performance Areas: Evaluation and Intervention

10 Activities of Daily Living

11 Mobility

12 Sexuality and Physical Dysfunction

13 Sleep and Rest

14 Work Evaluation and Work Programs

15 Americans with Disabilities Act and Related Laws that Promote Participation in Work, Leisure, and Activities of Daily Living

16 Leisure Occupations

17 Assistive Technology

PART IV Performance Skills and Client Factors: Evaluation and Intervention

18 Performance Skills: Definitions and Evaluation in the Context of the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework

19 Evaluation of Motor Control

20 Occupation-Based Functional Motion Assessment

21 Joint Range of Motion

22 Evaluation of Muscle Strength

23 Evaluation of Sensation and Intervention for Sensory Dysfunction

24 Evaluation and Treatment of Visual Deficits After Brain Injury

25 Evaluation and Intervention for Perception Dysfunction

26 Evaluation and Treatment of Limited Occupational Performance Secondary to Cognitive Dysfunction

27 Eating and Swallowing

28 Pain Management

PART V The Occupational Therapy Process: Implementation of Intervention

29 Therapeutic Occupations and Modalities

30 Orthotics

31 Traditional Sensorimotor Approaches to Intervention

32 Motor Learning

PART VI Intervention Applications

33 Cerebrovascular Accident (Stroke)

34 Traumatic Brain Injury

35 Degenerative Diseases of the Central Nervous System

36 Spinal Cord Injury

37 Disorders of the Motor Unit

38 Arthritis

39 Hand and Upper Extremity Injuries

40 Orthopedic Conditions: Hip Fractures and Hip, Knee, and Shoulder Replacements

41 Low Back Pain

42 Burns and Burn Rehabilitation

43 Amputations and Prosthetics

44 Cardiac and Pulmonary Diseas

45 Cancer and Oncology Rehabilitation

46 Special Needs of the Older Adult

47 HIV Infection and AIDS

48 Polytrauma and Occupational Therapy

49 Occupational Therapy in Hospice and Palliative Care

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Gain the knowledge and skills you need to succeed in Occupational Therapy along a continuum of care