1st Edition
Handbook of Medical Aspects of Disability and Rehabilitation for Life Care Planning
This textbook is an essential resource for life care planners in understanding and assessing a range of medical disabilities, life care planning as a health care service delivery practice, certification under the International Commission on Health Care Certification, and the path to rehabilitation for mild to catastrophic injuries.
Written by a team composed of expert physicians and doctoral-level practitioners, the book covers the key areas of traumatic injury and resultant disability that life care planners so often face. From acquired brain injury and spinal disorders to amputation, chronic pain, posttraumatic debilitating headaches, and plastic reconstructive surgery, the book provides a road map not only to the treatment options available but also the strategies that can lead to rehabilitation and a possible return to work. Each chapter also discusses possible complications, allowing a holistic perspective on each issue.
Also including chapters on medical cost projection analysis and functional capacity evaluation, this is the complete text for both professionals in the fields of rehabilitation services and life care planning, as well as students training to qualify.
Preface
Foreword by Timothy F. Field
1. Life Care Planning: History, Process, and the Written Document
Virgil Robert May III and Heather Howe
2. Disability Legislation in the United States and Canada
Tanya Rutherford Owen
3. Third-Party Provider Systems
Larry S. Stokes, Aaron M. Wolfson, Todd S. Capielano, Lacy H. Sapp, and Ashley G. Lastrapes
4. Independent Medical Evaluations
Douglas W. Martin
5. Significant Body Systems
Kaitlyn Cyncynatus and Steven Barna
6. Psychosocial Aspects of Chronic Illness and Disability
Kathleen Acer
7. The Pediatric Life Care Plan and Vocational Evaluation
Jennifer Canter
8. Disability Sequelae of Immobility: A Systems Perspective
Robert S. Djergaian
9. Acquired Brain Injury
Huma Haider
Appendix A: Impact of Injuries on Activities of Daily Living [ADLs] and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs)
Appendix B: Life Care Plan Subsection Charts
10. Traumatic Brain Injury: A Neurosurgeon’s Perspective
Gary E. Kraus
11. Post-Traumatic Headaches
Huma Haider
12. Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury
Stuart Kahn, Rachel Santiago, Michael Chiou, and Sofia Barchuk
13. Spinal Disorders
Bharat C. Patel, Matthew Janzen, Ashley Plonk, and Krishn Patel
Appendix 13.1: Glossary for All Healthcare Professionals
14. Peripheral Neuropathies
Gary E. Kraus
15. Amputations
LeRoy Oddie and Danielle Melton
16. Pain Medicine and Life Care Planning
Richard Bowman
17. Burn Trauma and Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Gerard Mosiello
18. Canadian Life Care Planning and Cost Projection Analysis: A Comparison of Process and Application
Claudia von Zweck and Dana Weldon
19. Functional Capacity Evaluation: Process, Utility, and Life Care Planning and Case Management Applications
Virgil Robert May III
20. The Medical Cost Projection
Reva Payne
21. Expert Witness Testimony: Legal, Practical, and Ethical Considerations
Alex Karras and Jennifer Lambert
22. The International Commission on Health Care Certification: Certification and
Accreditation in Life Care Planning
Virgil Robert May III and Kathleen Kenney May
Biography
Virgil Robert May III, Rehabilitation Practitioner, Doctor of Rehabilitation, Southern Illinois University, USA.
Richard Bowman, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, MD, Certified Life Care Planner, West Virginia, USA.
Steven Barna, Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine (MD) and Certified Life Care Planner (CLCP), Florida, USA.
