Exercise in Rehabilitation Medicine Book (Copyright 1999, 496 pages)
Determine the very best exercise prescriptions for your rehabilitation patients with this much-needed book. Exercise in Rehabilitation Medicine assembles the latest research on exercise science to present an in-depth, thoroughly referenced resource that quantifies and measures how exercise impacts specific disease groups and disabilities. No other book so thoroughly examines the underpinnings of exercise science as they relate to specific clinical interventions for rehabilitation patients. Harvard Medical School About the Editor Walter R. Frontera, MD, PhD, is the Earle P. and Ida S. Charlton Associate Professor and Chairman of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School. He is Chief of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Frontera is board-certified in physical medicine and rehabilitation and has a PhD in exercise physiology. A recognized expert in both exercise physiology and rehabilitation medicine, Dr. Frontera has been published widely. Dr. Frontera established The Center for Sports Health and Exercise Sciences at the Olympic Training Center in Puerto Rico. He is Secretary General of the International Sports Medicine Federation and Pan-American Confederation of Sports Medicine, and a fellow of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. He received the Erdman Lecturer Award from the Association of Academic Physiatrists. Dr. Frontera attained his medical degree from the University of Puerto Rico San Juan, Puerto Rico, and his PhD in applied anatomy and physiology from Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Frontera and his wife, Aida, live in Concord, Massachusetts. Associate Editors David M. Dawson, MD, is Professor of Neurology and associate director of the Division of Rehabilitation Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is board-certified in neurology. Author of the widely-used text Entrapment Neuropathies (Little-Brown), Dr. Dawson has been extensively published. He served as director of residency training in neurology at the Brigham and Women Table of Contents Part I. Biological Considerations Chapter 1. Energy Balance for Muscle Function: Principles of Bioenergetics Michael L. Blei, Allison Fall, and Martin J. Kushmerick Chapter 2. Biomechanical Correlates of Movement: Principles of Gait D. Casey Kerrigan and Thiru Annaswamy Chapter 3. Physiological Adaptations to Dynamic Exercise Roger A.