A qualified rehabilitator should have many abilities, such as the ability to communicate with doctors and patients' families, a solid theoretical foundation of rehabilitation (muscles, bones, nerves, human kinematics), skillful operation skills (effectively protecting oneself without bringing pain to patients), the ability to combine theory with practice (clinic is not equal to books, there is no single disease), writing rehabilitation medical records, and imaginative (designing reasonable rehabilitation actions).

An important foundation for getting started:

Systematic Anatomy is recommended to be read together with Atlas of Human Anatomy Third Edition, and it can be clearly understood that the structure and function of muscles are compatible and indispensable in subsequent rehabilitation.

Personally, I suggest that you can learn some books about myofascia during this time, such as muscle chain and trigger point, myofascia relaxation and so on. She will bring you the concept of systematic muscle classification and holistic treatment, so that you can not stick to "one gain and loss" but "look at the overall situation", and analyze the problem from the whole (cross back and forth), which is helpful for more accurate positioning.

Clinical Kinematics, edited by Professor Maruyama, is also my current postgraduate tutor. Gait chapter from the perspective of exercise physiology, let you clearly understand the movement angle of each joint and the center of gravity during walking, which is of great significance to the evaluation of rehabilitation gait in the future.

Rehabilitation has its own process, in short, it is evaluation-treatment-re-evaluation-re-treatment-family education. There is a concept of "no evaluation, no treatment" in rehabilitation, so only by truly understanding the patient's dysfunction can we achieve reasonable and targeted treatment. And "Body Assessment-Therapist's Operation Guide" will bring you a clearer concept of body assessment. Books related to evaluation, such as palpation and evaluation skills, 3-minute examination of skeletal muscles and peripheral nerves, are also suitable for reading.

Stick to this point and complete the basic knowledge reserve of rehabilitation. Of course, if you are interested, you can read some books on children's development, which is very helpful for the rehabilitation of stroke. The development sequence of children's "three turns, six sitting, seven rolling and eight crawling" is a common rehabilitation process for stroke patients. Children's early posture reflex, big movements, fine movements and speech are also helpful for rehabilitation teachers to analyze patients' movement patterns and intervene in sports re-learning.