**Meet the editor**

Dr Chong Tae Kim received the both M.D. and Ph. D. degrees from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, in 1982 and 1997, respectively. He completed the physical medicine and rehabilitation residency at Yonsei University Hospital, Seoul, Korea from 1986 to 1989 and at Brody Medical School of East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina from 1997 to 2001. From 1994 to 1997, he

was a research fellow in bioelectricity at Kessler Institute of Rehabilitation, West Orange, New Jersey. Since 2001, he has been an attending physician at the division of pediatric rehabilitation medicine at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. His interests are neuro-rehabilitation of pediatric stroke, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, brain tumor, and cerebral palsy.

Contents

**Preface VII** 

Chapter 2 **Stroke Rehabilitation 21**  Chong Tae Kim

Chapter 1 **Diabetic Foot Ulceration and Amputation 1**  Stephanie Burns and Yih-Kuen Jan

Lan Le-Ngoc and Jessica Janssen

Thomas Janssen and Karin Gerrits

Hui-Shen Lin and Meng-Chih Lee

Chapter 6 **The Hierarchical Status of Mobility** 

Chapter 3 **Myotonometric Measurement of Muscular Properties of Hemiparetic Arms in Stroke Patients 37**  Li-Ling Chuang, Ching-Yi Wu and Keh-Chung Lin

Chapter 4 **Validity and Reliability of a Hand-Held Dynamometer for Dynamic Muscle Strength Assessment 53** 

Chapter 5 **Functional Recovery and Muscle Properties After Stroke: A Preliminary Longitudinal Study 67** 

> **Disability Predicts Future IADL Disability: A Longitudinal Study on Ageing in Taiwan 85**  Hui-Ya Chen, Chih-Jung Yeh, Ching-Yi Wang,

Astrid Horstman, Arnold de Haan, Manin Konijnenbelt,
