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This is a comprehensive resource guide for all the members of the inte rdisciplinary team, patients, and caregivers. The book emphasizes read y-to-use patient education materials, but also features practitioner-r eference tools, primarily patient counseling guides. ... Read more

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University of Colorado, Denver. Interdisciplinary guide to general wellness and health promotion after spinal cord injury, for rehabilitation professionals, physical and occupational therapists. Discusses both psychosocial and physical aspects of health. Wire spiral binding. ... Read more

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This One Has It All
Believe it or not, I liked this book so much that after typing a long review on it once before, I accidently erased my review and I have now gone the extra mile in a very busy practice to write to you about thisexceptional book.I have spent the last 6 months researching theliterature on health promotion for my patients with Multiple Sclerosis. Iam a member of a medical team developing a large scale 'health promotingbehavior'(hpb) research and training center at a large university hospital.I wandered into the SCI literature and BEHOLD!All the months that I hadspent teasing this aspect and then that apsect of hpb's were, for the mostpart, contained in this one very deceivingly simple book. Likewise,my explorations on how to create a program designed to maximize hpb's wouldhave been immensely easier had I found this title first!I now use it toorganize all the other informationthat I have found in other sources. The breadth of the material is neatly organized into numerous andpowerfullyinformative tables and diagrams. I did not find a single topicrelevant to the consumer and the healthcare professional uncovered.Forit's purpose, this dynamo of a book is "just what the doctorordered."My only problem now is HOW DO I ORGANIZE OUR PROGRAMWITHOUT COMPLETELY PLAGIARIZING INDIRA S. LANIG! ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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This easily readable account of a complex topic haspreviously been restricted to the academic "high ground".Here for the first time are didactic and practicalguidelines on both the acute and long-term mangement ofpatients. The information is of particular importance as itis largely because of detailed attention to the urinarytract that that thelife expectancy of spinal cord damagedpatients has been increased and theirquality of liveimproved. This book will be a helpful guide to surgeons inthe fields of urology, trauma, orthopaedics and neurosugery,as well as to spinal injury and rehabilitation doctors -indeed to any clinician whoeither regularly or occasionallyis charged with the management of urinarytract ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Palaestra, published by Challenge Publications Limited on January 1, 1995. The length of the article is 2990 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Diving with spinal cord injury. (part 3)
Author: Jerrold S. Petrofsky
Publication: Palaestra (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 1995
Publisher: Challenge Publications Limited
Volume: v11Issue: n2Page: p34(5)

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Not long after Indiana University had won the NCAA championship in 1981, a young man of twenty was hurriedly riding his bicycle in order to make it on time for a tennis tournament. He had plans for returning to the game after having been sidetracked with the 'college life.' Although he expected to attend graduate school, he was hoping to play professional tennis one day. He never made it to that tournament. A head-on collision with an automobile had crushed his dreams and also his neck, resulting in a cervical spinal cord injury. As he lay in the intensive care unit unable to move, he listened to music on his Walkman to distract him from his terrible predicament. His favorite tape, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway by Genesis, seemed to help keep his attitude positive and hopeful. The following months are torturous and frustrating and he prays for a miracle; near-death experiences that seem too mysterious to comprehend show him that there is life beyond human existence. Then, after finally making it to the rehabilitation unit, he meets other young men in similar situations and they all struggle together to increase their functional abilities. In this rare and candid memoir, Stephen Thompson shares his many tribulations as he experiences new beginnings, both physical and spiritual, and strives for the ultimate goal of any spinal cord injury victim: to walk again. ... Read more

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Good Bye Friend
Steve's book was one of his many accomplishments after the sccident.What always amazed and inspired me was his ability to remain positive in spite of the limitations caused by his injury .Steve died yesterday (12-30-09) and will be missed but not forgotten.God bless you Steve. ... Read more

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This book has been created for patients who have decided to make education and research an integral part of the treatment process. Although it also gives information useful to doctors, caregivers and other health professionals, it tells patients where and how to look for information covering virtually all topics related to spinal cord injury (also Cervical fracture, dislocation; Compression of spinal cord; Spinal cord compression; Spinal cord injury), from the essentials to the most advanced areas of research. The title of this book includes the word official. This reflects the fact that the sourcebook draws from public, academic, government, and peer-reviewed research. Selected readings from various agencies are reproduced to give you some of the latest official information available to date on spinal cord injury. Given patients' increasing sophistication in using the Internet, abundant references to reliable Internet-based resources are provided throughout this sourcebook. Where possible, guidance is provided on how to obtain free-of-charge, primary research results as well as more detailed information via the Internet. E-book and electronic versions of this sourcebook are fully interactive with each of the Internet sites mentioned (clicking on a hyperlink automatically opens your browser to the site indicated). Hard-copy users of this sourcebook can type cited Web addresses directly into their browsers to obtain access to the corresponding sites. In addition to extensive references accessible via the Internet, chapters include glossaries of technical or uncommon terms. ... Read more