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This new edition will grow to three volumes and significantly expand existing sections on medical management of children with cerebral palsy, research, education and therapies. The first volume will cover the cause of CP, the underlying pathology in the brain and the secondary pathologies in different tissues, such as muscle and bone. There are a fair number of controversies and new techniques, such as PET scans, that are getter attention to make earlier diagnosis. It is still not clear whether early diagnosis makes a long term difference. Epidemiology will also be discussed. The second volume will focus on general medical concerns related to CP on each of the medical specialties and the musculoskeletal section - which served as the main focus of the previous edition. This volume will be updated with an emphasis on gait disorders, spasticity, seizures and movement disorders. New research and techniques on the hip and spine areas will be added as well. The third and final volume will be an expanded and comprehensive resource on therapies. More detail on the latest outcome research and techniques will be provided along with sections on orthotics and novel treatments and techniques. This reference work will build on gaps within the first edition and continue to be the definitive guide for rehabilitation physicians, orthopedics, neurologists and therapists who treat children with CP .

Neurology . --- Pediatrics. --- Rehabilitation. --- Orthopedics. --- Occupational therapy. --- Neurology. --- Conservative Orthopedics. --- Surgical Orthopedics. --- Occupational Therapy. --- Activity programs, Therapeutic effect of --- Occupation therapy --- Work, Therapeutic effect of --- Medical rehabilitation --- Physical therapy --- Psychotherapy --- Therapeutics, Physiological --- Orthopaedics --- Orthopedia --- Surgery --- Paediatrics --- Pediatric medicine --- Medicine --- Children --- Nervous system --- Neuropsychiatry --- Diseases --- Health and hygiene --- Cerebral palsied children --- Children with cerebral palsy

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"This book combines the areas of occupational therapists and health educators. It is clearly and straightforwardly an occupational therapy text with an appreciation of the importance of populations and community as a context for health. The third edition aims to be a useful with a more developed discussion of the issues related to present-day community and population health practice in occupational therapy"--

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This book describes the development of portable, wearable, and highly customizable hand exoskeletons to aid patients suffering from hand disabilities. It presents an original approach for the design of human hand motion assistance devices that relies on (i) an optimization-based kinematic scaling procedure, which guarantees a significant adaptability to the user’s hands motion, and (ii) a topology optimization-based design methodology, which allowed the design of a lightweight, comfortable device with a high level of performance. The book covers the whole process of hand exoskeleton development, from establishing a new design strategy,to the construction and testing of hand exoskeleton prototypes, using additive manufacturing techniques. As such, it offers timely information to both researchers and engineers developing human motion assistance systems, especially wearable ones.

Biomedical engineering. --- Manufactures. --- Robotics. --- Automation. --- Occupational therapy. --- Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering. --- Manufacturing, Machines, Tools, Processes. --- Robotics and Automation. --- Occupational Therapy. --- Robotic exoskeletons. --- Artificial exoskeletons --- Biomechatronic exoskeletons --- Defense exoskeletons --- Exoskeleton suits --- Military exoskeletons --- Powered armor --- Powered exoskeletons --- Wearable exoskeletons --- Armor --- Protective clothing --- Clinical engineering --- Medical engineering --- Bioengineering --- Biophysics --- Engineering --- Medicine --- Activity programs, Therapeutic effect of --- Occupation therapy --- Work, Therapeutic effect of --- Medical rehabilitation --- Physical therapy --- Psychotherapy --- Therapeutics, Physiological --- Automatic factories --- Automatic production --- Computer control --- Engineering cybernetics --- Factories --- Industrial engineering --- Mechanization --- Assembly-line methods --- Automatic control --- Automatic machinery --- CAD/CAM systems --- Robotics --- Automation --- Machine theory --- Manufactured goods --- Manufactured products --- Products --- Products, Manufactured --- Commercial products --- Manufacturing industries