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We gratefully acknowledge the many individuals who have helped us with the seventh edition of Occupational Therapy for Physical Dysfunction . As always, we relied on the accommodation, practical assistance, and occasional indulgence of our friends and loved ones, most notably our husbands, Jim Radomski and John Latham; we thank them for their help with this work. Heather Rybacki, Man-aging Editor at Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, worked with us throughout the planning and editing of the seventh edition. John Larkin, Product Manager, and Russ Hall (Absolute Service, Inc.) orchestrated and prepared the production of the book. We appreciate their expertise, pro-fessionalism, and the continuity that they brought to this project.
Many others were quick to agree to our requests for assistance with photographs, videography, and ancil-laries. Emily Eastman, occupational therapy student at St. Catherine University, was an exceptional model for the new range of motion and manual muscle testing photo-graphs. We appreciate Jennifer Theis, MS, OTR/L, who developed the storyboards for the new video on car trans-fers and dressing techniques, and Kelly Tollefson (and her sister/driver, Amy) and Susan Hagel, MS CTRS, who demonstrated these techniques in the videos. Thanks too to the Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute for providing space for our photography and videography sessions and to Cheryl Smith and Matthew White, OTR/L of the Courage Kenny Research Center. We are especially grate-ful to Elizabeth Plummer, who allowed us to use her beau-tiful photograph on the cover of the book.
As mentioned in the Preface, we recognize the con-tribution, commitment, and hard work of this edition’s authors. In this edition, we are particularly grateful to the authors who are also members of the U.S. Army Medical Specialists Corps including MAJ Charles Quick, MAJ Priscillia Bejarano, LTC Andrew Fabrizio, MAJ Jose Rafols, MAJ Sarah Mitsch, MAJ(P) Kathleen Yancosek, and those with recent military service (Valerie Rice, Lisa Smurr Walters, and Lynsay Whelan). We recognize the historically important ways that military clinicians have infl uenced our profession and their service to our country. All of these authors stand on the shoulders of 51 previ-ous authors who have shaped the textbook’s content since the fi rst edition was published in 1977 (see the list that follows). Past and present authors have taken on this work with a desire to advance the profession by sharing their expertise with you and for that, we are most grateful.