This book: Handling Skills Used in the Management of adult Hemiplegis, is now exclusively available as an Audio-Text Streaming Book.
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This manual presents a comprehensive guide to handling skills for facilitating and mobilizing patients with adult hemiplegia. These effective treatment techniques, as developed by Isabelle M. Bohman, cover numerous aspects of treatment from mobilizing the shoulder, trunk and pelvis, to facilitating active movement in sitting, standing, use of the upper extremity, and gait. A special section on positioning and bed mobility is also included.
1. Describe the concepts of mobilization and facilitation as used in the management of adult hemiplegia.
2. Describle the clinical implications of mobilization of the lumbar spine.
3. Describe the clinical implications of mobilizing the thoracic area.
4. Describe the clinical implications of mobilizing the scapula.
5. Descrine techniques used for inhibition of the hand.
6. Describe the clinical implicationsfor the facilitation of sitting.
7. Describe the facilitation techniques used for improving standing and gait.
8. Describe the basic concepts for positioning and bed mobility.
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Occupational, physical, and speech therapists, as well as other rehabilitation professionals.
