Physical Impairments category: 216 books

Research on assistive technologies is undergoing many developments in its effectiveness in helping those with varying impairments. New technologies are constantly being created, researched, and implemented for those who need these technological aides in daily life. Assistive Technologies for Physical...

This workbook provides more than 50 questions and exercises designed to empower those with physical loss and disability to better understand and accept their ongoing processes of loss and recovery. The exercises in Coping with Physical Loss and Disability were distilled from twenty-five years of clinical...

If you have a child with a physical disability, how can you plan your family’s life in a way that is inclusive for everyone? What can you do to create a family where every member pulls his or her own weight (in appropriate measure), meets challenges, and has moments in the spotlight along the way?...

What do My Cousin Vinny, The Goat Man and voodoo ceremonies in the deep south have in common? They represent only a few of the interesting people and adventures had by Wade Ballance in his Physical Therapy career. From large city hospitals, to a ten bed hospital in a small town, to a massive catholic...

What is Echolocation? The ability to "SEE" objects using sound instead of sight. Echolocation is a fundamentally simple skill that many blind people use daily to navigate and understand their environment. This skill is sometimes misunderstood, but it’s far more realistic and much...

A comprehensive all-in-one guide to Lyme disease, including psychological as well as physical symptoms, along with traditional and alternative treatments. Lyme disease is one of the most rapidly emerging infectious diseases in North America and Europe, transmitted to humans by the bite of an...

Are you suffering from a knee injury and don't want or can't afford to do physical therapy? I recently suffered a knee injury myself and I rehabilitated it myself at home. Being a personal trainer, I know how to stretch and exercise the knee to get it back into shape. In 1996, I was in a car accident....

Therapeutic Education: Direction and Intervention: TEDI is a six volume program that will bring the young child from the initial traumatic brain injury or acquired condition through the acute hospitalization, into a rehabilitation program, entry into the school system and beyond. The TEDI program...

Are you curious about becoming a physiotherapist? Would you like to help people overcome physical ailments? If you yes, then this book will become your go-to beginners bible for understanding the various elements of Physio. Physiotherapy concerns itself with providing physical healing methods...

Welcome to this book on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome... A Treatment Guide for Extreme Tiredness with Tips on Fibromyalgia and Chronic Myofascial Pain Including Adrenal Fatigue Syndrome Today! To start with, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) is a form of chronic fatigue Syndrome …the disease in...

Your face, and your life, has been radically altered. Accident, military injury, medical condition...the result is the same. You are now having to confront the world with a "different" face, and understandably this has wrecked your self-image and undermined your confidence, leaving you with...

Disability is not always central to claims about diversity and inclusion in higher education, but should be. This collection reveals the pervasiveness of disability issues and considerations within many higher education populations and settings, from classrooms to physical environments to policy impacts...

From A Matter of Dignity: I realized that I needed to learn about the legislative and legal aspects of disability as much as I did about our feelings regarding wholeness, beauty and ugliness, about the state called normalcy, about liberating technologies and therapies, about the role of the...

This quirky non-fiction reads like a short novel as the author's chronic diagnosis thrusts her into harsh unfamiliar territory. As she moves forward she finds the humor in intolerable situations. Escape to memories you'll share and just when you reach emotional breaking points you'll laugh...