The Wheelchair Evaluation: A Clinician's Guide

The Wheelchair Evaluation: A Clinician’s Guide, Second Edition is an updated, practical, and concise reference on the wheelchair prescription process. It is perfect for students and clinicians in the health fields who work with physically disabled individuals in need of a wheelchair. This book is a portable, hands-on manual that implements a real-world approach to patient evaluation, choice of wheelchair components, documentation, and funding. New to this Edition: Four new chapters dedicated to ethical issues, funding, documentation, and fitting. A Medicare algorithm for wheelchair clinical decision-making. Information on American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA) wheelchair standards that is useful in comparison shopping. New PowerPoint slides with videos. Free with every book: a CD of chapter-by-chapter PowerPoint slides with videos!Content available under the Samples tab above. In order to view video content within this presentation, save the file to your desktop. Then, right click on the file and select “extract all” before opening. © 2010 | 276 pages Read more