Casebook of Orthopedic Rehabilitation Including Virtual Reality [Paperback]

This book is a companion text to Orthopedic Rehabilitation, Assessment, and Enablement by the same author, but can be used independently. Through real life examples, it illustrates the rehabilitation ideas and principles taught in the companion text, ranging from conditions seen daily by the orthopedic surgeon or primary care physician to more challenging conditions. It also covers newer paradigm shifts in the management of osteoporosis and new technologies. In addition, the book highlights the uses of the computers and virtual reality in the field of orthopedic surgery. Coverage ends by stressing the importance of tele-rehabilitation.

Through real life examples, this book illustrates the rehabilitation ideas and principles taught in its companion text. It also covers newer paradigm shifts in the management of osteoporosis with special emphasis on the emerging importance of virtual reality.

As the name implies, this casebook contains a series of clinical cases on various topics in orthopedic rehabilitation that the author encountered over his 23 years of practice ranging from the extremely common co- ditions like knee arthritis, to newer technologies evolved in the recent years including the use of smart materials in orthopedics, hypergravity stimulation therapy, and virtual reality. Many of us must have encountered difcult real life hurdles to - habilitation in real clinical practice in which patients have difculty in coming back for rehabilitation either because they live very far away, or they do not really have adequate time, or they simply only agree for home-based rehabilitation for various reasons. In these case scenarios, no matter how good a protocol one has on hand, it will be difcult to achieve the expected result. When the author was still young, he made the common mistake of accepting lesser outcomes from these patients saying to myself that it is a question of compliance. However, with large strides in computer el"