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"Doctors and surgeons often consider the job complete when victims of injury are carried out of the operating theatre - and definitely so when the patients have left the orthopaedic centre with a prosthesis on. Twenty years of trauma care and surgery in war zones and minefields in the South has taught us that they are wrong: a lot of trauma victims in poor communities suffer from chronic pain and a sense of worthlessness - so much so that they simply cannot use an artificial limb - much less provide for their family. In fact, poverty is as much a trauma as the injury itself. This book tells how the victim, with his family and with YOU, can find strategies to cope. The book is a MUST for anybody - graduate and non-graduate - involved in trauma care."
- Hans Husum MD, author of 'Save Lives, Save Limbs' and 'War Surgery Field Manual'
"The beauty of Life after injury is that the authors encourage rehabilitation workers and therapists - in partnership with the injured persons and relatives - to sensitively yet systematically evaluate the person's full range of needs, fears, hopes and possibilities. Family, and community understanding and support, along with consideration of local and cultural factors, are celebrated as integral to this process. In sum, Life after injury is a goldmine of comprehensive information for assessing needs and carrying out rehabilitation in difficult circumstances in a way that preserves the dignity and caring human touch of all concerned."
- David Werner, author of 'Where There Is No Doctor', 'Helping Health Workers Learn', 'Disabled Village Children' and 'Nothing About Us Without Us".
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Life after injury
A rehabilitation manual for the injured and their helpers

In many ways this important book Life after injury, first published at the end of 2002, is the rehabilitation worker's equivalent of 'Where There Is No Doctor', by David Werner. (With more than 2 million copies in print in more than 80 languages, 'Where There Is No Doctor' is probably the most widely used health care manual in developing countries.)

The writers of Life after injury, Liz Hobbs, Susan McDonough and Ann O'Callaghan, have between them many decades of experience in physiotherapy and occupational therapy, both in their home country of Australia including with remote indigenous communities, and in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Their wide-ranging experience over many different cultures and rehabilitation models, including working with many injured and disabled people both in war zones and in regular village life. Drawing on this experience they developed the philosophies that underpin the book:

-Rehabilitation is most successful if it is holistic and community-based with national support.
-A rehabilitation manual needs to have comprehensive information to be useful. It must give all the information needed to manage most injuries and disabilities, but also it needs to be light-weight so it can be easily carried in a knapsack. (Life after injury is printed on lightweight paper.)
-The book must teach people how to solve problems.
-Injured and disabled people, rehabilitation workers, and community members, must be empowered in each stage of rehabilitation.

Life after injury includes:

-A clear indication of goals for each condition
-Step-by-step instructions, including any special warnings
-Easy-to-find cross-references to concepts covered in other sections of the book
-1,400 drawings and photos that clearly illustrate exercises, positions and warnings
-Stories from field experience that give a realistic view of what can be achieved

Life after injury is highly recommended for trauma care workers globally. If you have a friend or relative working as a volunteer or on an overseas aid program, this would make a wonderfully appropriate gift, for them personally, or for the project with which they are working.

185 x 255 mm, 593 pages, paperback.


Click here to visit the Life After Injury website: http://www.lifeafterinjury.org

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