Home Management of Erb's Palsy - An Exercise-Based Approach: A guide to parents and caregivers to manage babies and young kids with Erb's palsy at home

by Priya Reddappa

The book, “ Home Management of Erb's Palsy”, is a concise practical book for parents, caregivers, practising paediatric therapists, and other healthcare professionals. The book is an informative resource on the practical aspects of improving the function of the upper limb from a Physical Therapy perspective. The book deals in detail with the causes of Erb's palsy, structure of brachial plexus, evaluation, precautions in handling the child, with more focus on exercises that would improve the child. functionally. The concepts of therapeutic intervention and handling of the child have been well explained and presented with pictures wherever necessary. This book is concise and well organized making it easy to read. Glossary is provided to help readers understand the terms Priya Reddappa, MPT (Paediatric Neurology), APGDCR-PV, is a postgraduate Paediatric Physical Therapist, and a licensed Life Member of Indian Association of Physiotherapists (MIAP). She completed her Masters in Physical Therapy from The Tamilnadu Dr M.G.R Medical University and has experience as a Physical Therapist over 12 years in various clinical areas of Orthopaedics, Neurology, Cardiorespiratory, and Neuropaediatric conditions. As a clinically driven professional, she has worked in paediatric acute care (inpatient settings), outpatient settings, special school, and paediatric rehabilitation centres. She has handled paediatric patients at Apollo Children’s Hospital, Chennai for over five years. She gained experience as a Research Clinical Evaluator for Apollo Hospitals Education and Research Foundation for a Clinical Trial on Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy for about four years. She has published two research papers in International journals regarding hand function in children with cerebral palsy, and adults with spinal cord injury. She has also published a book on improving hand function in children with cerebral palsy, which is also getting published in Russian language very soon.

76 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 24, 2021