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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Secrets , Third

Edition
Bryan J. O'Young, Mark A. Young, and Steven A. Stiens
, ix-x
Copyright 2008, 2002, 1997 by Mosby, Inc., an affiliate of Elsevier Inc.

Acknowledgments
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not
giving it.

William Arthur Ward (American scholar, author, editor, and teacher)

(19211994)

The editors of this third edition of PM&R Secrets (Bryan, Mark, and Steve) wish to
thank our dedicated students, residents, fellows, and colleagues for inspiring us to
produce a new and improved version of this PM&R educational epic. Special
gratitude is offered to the many chapter authors and readers of the first and second
editions whose support has laid the foundation for this latest literary production. A
dedicated and altruistic faculty of international authors embodying the fine academic
spirit of teaching, research, and scholarship collaborated to create this third edition. In
so doing, they have lived up to Helen Keller's hallowed philosophy: Alone we can do so
little, together so much!

Special thanks are in order for the industrious and focused publishing staff at Elsevier,
including Linda Belfus, Bill Lambsback, Stan Ward, and James Merritt, Senior
Acquisitions Editor, and at SPi, including Trevor S. MacDougall, Project Manager, and
Richard Hund, Senior Project Manager, for their steadfast dedication to excellence,
attention to detail, commitment to success, and drive to innovate.

The editors of PM&R Secrets continue to prosper as clinicians, teachers, and

scientists through our relationships and friendships with fellow faculty at our home
institutions. Many of these connections enabled us to optimize content and style in this
third edition. Again, gratitude is extended to our colleagues and residents at the New
York University, University of Washington, Johns Hopkins University, the University of
Maryland, the Veterans Administration, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, and the Maryland
Rehabilitation Center & The Workforce & Technology Center. A word of gratitude is
due to cherished colleagues associated with the New York College of Podiatric
Medicine including Louis Levine and Howard Rusk Jr.

Bestowing thanks and gratitude and paying homage to people who are no longer with
us is the highest form of acknowledgment. Although this task poses a poignant
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challenge, the editors wish to offer our heartfelt memorial and kindest rememberance to
our beloved colleagues who are dearly departed but whose spirit lovingly remains with
us, including Mr. Norman Berger, Dr. David Berkin, Dr. Binyomin Bradley Bregin, Dr.
Charles Chuck Cannizzarro, Dr. Scott Labaer, Dr. Justus Lehman, and Dr. Scott
Nadler.

The many innovations that come with this third edition would never have been possible
without the creative, congenial, collaborative, and diligent teamwork of many. Ms.
Tammy Chan fashioned the structure of our outline in response to our design, and she
enthusiastically maintained communication with all the authors as chapter concepts
were defined and integrated into the textbook themes. Ms. Ivy Wang provided
conscientious attention to detail and dedicated her continual support to the academic
mission. Debra Walters, Linnea Preston, Makoto Edani, and Annie Liang provided
clerical assistance in revising edited manuscripts to refine clarity and maximize
educational content. Charles Goldmann as a certified nursing assistant and Mary Lou
May as an experienced nurse and administrator sought out countless references and
maintained our writing files to enable pertinent and contemporary literature to be cited.
Mia Hannula provided clever searches of a variety of databases as an exploratory
librarian and Scott Campbell, library assistant, retrieved literature and various other
learning media to provide a selective and rich array of resources for our readers.

The following medical media specialists are congratulated on their art and skills:
Joseph Mathews, Alisa Holcomb, Christopher Pacheco, and Don Cabio. Over the
years, they have collaborated to render custom diagrams, scan images, and generate
posters, CD-ROMs, and movies to provide education that shares PM&R Secrets' core
messages.

A unique word of thanks is due to IT (Information Technology) innovations such as

Gmail of Google fame, which logistically enabled the editors to synchronously stay on
top of the pile of daily authors e-mail correspondence relating to book content. The
novel storage and archiving capability of this program truly optimized the editors
efforts. Skype, a unique Internet-based telephonic service, also allowed the authors to
maintain real-time contact with authors throughout the world.

In later production, manuscripts required review for educational impact, clarity, and
correct grammatical style. Considering the variety of expression in this casual
occasionally funny yet academic bridge textbook required discrimination and a sense
of humor. These courageous test pilots provided hints about content, style, layout, and
structure of the material for all readers. They relentlessly corrected typos and made
suggestions for clarity throughout the text. Lisa Carey, Alexis Kruczek, Christina
Hadzithedorou, Sarah Ritter, Elizabeth Bentzen, Hiwen Chen, Darryl Gray, and Anne
Marie Mackey, as well as a few others, met these challenges with enthusiasm.
THANKS!

The authors would like to express gratitude to the members of our arduous attending
physician and resident peer review editorial panel who provided insights on the
textbook as this edition was formulated. They include Dr. Michael Frey, Dr. Howard
Choi, Dr. Tim Dillingham, Dr. Mathew Lee, Dr. Jennifer James, Dr. Ari Greis, Dr. Alfred
Campbell, Dr. DJ Kennedy, Dr. Mohammed Yavari Rad, Dr. Maya Desai, Dr. Sheldon
Rudin, Dr. Lee Gresser, Dr. Edwin Burstock, and a few others. Thanks to Dr. Stanley
Kornhauser, Dr. Rhodora Tumanon, Dr. Margaret Hammond, Dr. Peter Esselman, and
Dr. Larry Robinson for their support.
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In closing, we wish to invoke the famous words of the world famous composer Lionel
Hampton (19082002): Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the
mind.

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