Table of Contents:
Section 1: The Bare Essentials
Chapter 1: Background information
Chapter 2: A framework for physiotherapy management
Section 2: Understanding
how people with paralysis perform motor tasks
Chapter 3: Transfers and bed mobility for people with lower limb paralysis
Chapter 4: Wheelchair mobility
Chapter 5: Hand function of people with tetraplegia
Chapter 6: Standing and walking with lower limb paralysis
Chapter 7: Training Motor tasks
Chapter 8: Strength training
Chapter 9: Contracture management
Chapter 10: Pain management
Chapter 11: Respiratory management
Chapter 12: Cardiovascular fitness training
Section 3: Environmental
factors
Chapter 13: Wheelchair seating
Section 4: The way forward
Chapter 14: Evidence-based physiotherapy
Appendix: Innervation of muscles