Posture: Sitting, Standing, Chair Design and Exercise.

Posture: Sitting, Standing, Chair Design and Exercise This text offers a comprehensive view of sitting and standing posture, chair design, and exercise associated with posture. The intention, although not directly stated, is clearly to prepare health care practitioners to more effectively evaluate sitting and standing posture of both healthy and disabled individuals. The first five chapters contain fundamental information on sitting, standing, factors of comfort, fatigue, and pressure distribution during sitting. Chapters 6, 7, and 8 focus on seating in school environments, motor vehicles, and work environments. The next three chapters cover alternative chair designs and seating for individuals who are elderly or disabled. The latter chapter addresses many specifics associated with wheelchairs and pressure sores and is the most comprehensive chapter in the book. The final chapter, on exercise and design implications, provides numerous techniques that are applicable to the practice of physical therapy. The volume is well illustrated, primarily with reproductions of work published in scientific journals. Referencing is extensive, including numerous citations from literature published in foreign languages.

The chapters are well organized, comprehensive in scope, and accurate in nature. The volume is an addition to two other volumes that the author has published. The text is generally applicable to all physical therapists whose patients are seated during school, in vehicles, and in work environments or who use specialized seating devices required because of a disability.