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Foreword

Rethinking Rehabilitation

This unusual book should be essential reading for all people involved professionally in rehabilitation—clinicians, researchers, and managers. I think that each chapter in this book will raise questions that should alter practice. Moreover, it should also interest many other people such as patients, other healthcare professionals, and anyone coming into contact with or interested in rehabilitation; the issues raised will show that there is much more to rehabilitation than therapy. It is an exciting, intellectually challenging field of practice

This book will particularly help any group of rehabilitation professionals who know that they want to develop and improve their practice and/or their service but do not know what to do. Asking team members to spend time reading and then discussing the content of this book could lead to dramatic changes and improvements in a fairly short time. It would achieve this by encouraging everyone to think about and question current practices, without either appearing to disparage the work of others or to devalue their own work