Occupational Therapy in Health Care

health disciplines and rehabilitation techniques used with rheumatic diseases in general and specifically with common conditions such as osteoarthritis and regional problems such as shoulder pain. Because there is no introduction to this text, the target audience to whom this book is addressed is not readily identified. The book seems to be addressing physicians and other health professionals who may lack understanding of the roles and functions of the health disciplines with specialized skills for providing care to people with rheumatic diseases. The first section, "The Interdisciplinary Team Approach," describes the roles, education backgrounds, and/or general concerns of 12 health disciplines. The second section, "Techniques in the Care of Patients with Rheumatic Disease," provides particularly useful summaries of the common rehabilitation techniques used by occupational and physical therapists along with the techniques of social workers and other behavioral disciplines. The last section, "Techniques for Regional Disorders and Speci fie Diseases," addresses a potpourri of common problems, such as hand dysfunction, knee pain and quadriceps atrophy, and spondyloarthropathies. This section also provides useCul brief summaries of rehabilitation problems and solutions for the regional disorders and specific deseases discussed. The refel'ence lists at the end of each chapter throughout the text are selectively chosen to allow the reader to obtain information of greater depth on the topics discussed. I recommend this text for those who are not knowledgeable about the rehabilitation services that can be provided for rheumatic diseases by health disciplines and for those who would like to have a synthesis of predominant thoughts regarding rheumatological rehabilitation in one text. Yuriko Lynn Yasuda, MSEd, OTR