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Foreword
Many clinicians in practice today will remember their first Oxford Handbook. The familiar cover and easily accessible layout was ground-breaking in its day, providing valuable clinical information in emergencies before the electronic resources that we take for granted today existed. Many of us learnt our medicine from carrying it about in a white-coat pocket where it could be accessed soon after seeing a patient. My abiding memory of my own first handbook is the exhortation in the early chapters not to blame the sick for being sick. This is a very powerful concept that resonated with me deeply and confirmed my choice of career in rehabilitation medicine where we can do so much with medical interventions to alleviate the impact of disabling conditions and where the cause of the disability cannot be cured. Over the years, the Oxford Handbook stable has increased, encompassing many clinical areas, and I was delighted when the first edition of the rehabilitation medicine handbook was published.
Rehabilitation is an educational and problem-solving clinical intervention that aims to reduce the impact of disabling conditions on peoples functioning. This is achieved through three main strategiesrestoration of the function of impaired structures, reorganization of impaired pathways to deliver improved abilities, and reducing the discrepancy between the limited ability of disabled people and the demands of their environment.
Manoj, Margaret, Ian, and Melissa in editing this handbook have brought together a distinguished group of contributors who comprehensively cover the widest possible syllabus of topics in rehabilitation medicinethe medical management of disabling conditions. The topics included in the handbook encompass a broader spectrum of conditions than most of the rehabilitation medicine curricula across Europe and North America, providing an invaluable insight into the rehabilitation of these conditions.