PhysioTools - Home Care for the Stroke Patient by Margaret Johnstone (CL1) #16990

PhysioTools - Home Care for the Stroke Patient by Margaret Johnstone (CL1)

Information and advice on positioning, stabilising, transfers and treatment including pressure splints and equipment.

This module is based on Margaret Johnstone's book ‘Home Care for the Stroke Patient: Living in the Pattern’, 3rd edition published by Elsevier Churchill Livingstone. It has been designed for physiotherapists, nurses and other healthcare professionals working with stroke patients. It contains information and advice on positioning, stabilising, transfers and treatment. Also included is information about helper's hand positions, pressure splints and equipment e.g. walking aids.

It allows the therapist to provide patients and carers with a precise, well illustrated document of exercise and handling instructions which can be
referred back to in the absence of the therapist.

Sort 1: Whole Body, Miscellaneous Upper Limb, Lower Limb, Hand Holds, Equipment, Pressure Splints.

Sort 2: Side Lying, Lying (Supine), Lying (Prone), Sitting, Long Sitting, Rolling, Crawling position, Kneeling, Standing, Assisted Walking, Sit/Stand, Floor/Sit, Sit/Kneel, Bathing, Miscellaneous.

Sort 3: Positioning, Stabilizing, Trunk Rotation, Treatment Note, Transfers, Advice Note, WB Upper Limb, Fine Control.

133 items
Line drawings

Printout languages: English, German, Finnish, Swedish, Danish, Japanese

Windows 2000, XP
32-bit: Vista, Server 2003
Server 2008,
64MB Ram
500 MB disk space

Author information:

Margaret Johnstone, FCSP

Was the Consultant Physiotherapist to Physiotherapie Institut, Bürgerspiral, Solothurn, Switzerland. In 1990, the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists rewarded her efforts with a Fellowship for the development and writings of a therapy approach in neurological rehabilitation with special attention for active participation of nurses, relatives and helpers.