Vocational Rehabilitation

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIV

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2. Vocational Rehabilitation: Definition and Applications

   1. Vocational rehabilitation

      • C. Gobelet, F. Franchignoni

      Pages 3-16

   2. The point of view of the insurance company

      • W. Morger

      Pages 17-30

   3. Disability as a process

      • P.-A. Fauchère

      Pages 31-39

   4. Inability to work, disability and vocational rehabilitation: does the general practitioner have a role to play in these processes?

      • F. Pilet

      Pages 41-51

   5. Cultural aspects of vocational rehabilitation processes

      • I. Rothenbühler

      Pages 53-67

   6. Functional Capacity Evaluation (FCE)

      • M. Oliveri

      Pages 69-93

   7. Work rehabilitation programs: work hardening and work conditioning

      • F. Franchignoni, M. Oliveri, G. Bazzini

      Pages 95-130

   8. Vocational rehabilitation and low back pain

      • V. Fialka-Moser, M. Herceg, E. Hartter

      Pages 131-136

   9. Vocational rehabilitation in musculo-skeletal disorders — with examples mainly from the neck and shoulder region

      • J. Ekholm, K. Schüldt Ekholm

      Pages 137-142

   10. Return to work after a traumatic brain injury: a difficult challenge

       • P. Vuadens, P. Arnold, A. Bellmann

       Pages 143-163

   11. Vocational rehabilitation and spinal cord injuries

       • A.T. Al-Khodairy, W.S. El Masry

       Pages 165-184

   12. Vocational rehabilitation and pulmonary programs

       • C.F. Donner

       Pages 185-194

   13. Cardiac rehabilitation and vocational reintegration

       • J.-M. Casillas, H.-J. Smolik, J.-P. Didier

       Pages 195-208

   14. Vocational integration in cancer rehabilitation

       • H. Delbrück

       Pages 209-223

3. Some Examples of Vocational Rehabilitation Management in Europe

   1. Vocational rehabilitation in Austria

      • V. Fialka-Moser, M. Herceg, M. Milanovic, D. Czamay, E. Hartter

      Pages 227-244

   2. Social security and vocational rehabilitation: the Belgian model

      • W. Brusselmans, K. Delplace

      Pages 245-259

   3. Vocational rehabilitation: the British model

      • C.W. Roy

      Pages 261-273

   4. Vocational rehabilitation in Finland

      • H. Alaranta

      Pages 275-282

   5. The French model of vocational rehabilitation

      • J.-M. André, C. Le Chapelain, J. Paysant

      Pages 283-308

It gives us great pleasure to write the preface to this book, the second in the series of monographs produced by the European Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine. No part of medicine, no clinical intervention, is complete without thinking about its effect on the person’s life and the quality thereof. One of the most powerful determinants of this is work; a source not only of income, but of satisfaction and a sense of purpose and worth. The Academy, founded in 1969, is composed of senior European doctors spec- lising in Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine. It meets regularly to discuss matters of importance in the field, including teaching, research and ethical matters. It recognises that the ability of the speciality and of related ones to decrease dependency and increase autonomy and quality of life needs to be better known. Hence the production of these monographs. They will help readers access a vast amount of literature on the practice of rehabilitation and its effectiveness. Theyshould be particularly useful to young doctors preparing for the European Boards certification in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine as they are authoritative and cover subjects in depth. Topics covered in the series range from basic sciences to the most applied areas.

• Vocational rehabilitation
• brain
• brain injury
• cancer
• european models
• evaluation
• management
• pain
• rehabilitation
• shoulder
• spinal cord
• trauma
• traumatic brain injury

• Clinique romande de réadaptation SuvaCare, Sion, Suisse

  Charles Gobelet

• Scientific Institute of Rehabilitation, “Salvatore Maugeri” Foundation, Veruno, Italie

  Franco Franchignoni

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