Stokes & Associates Experts Publish in Seminal New Textbook: Handbook of Medical Aspects of Disability and Rehabilitation for Life Care Planning 

The grassroots of life care planning can be traced back to the mid to late 1970’s that evolved out of case management with concepts, methodologies, and tenets in the field of rehabilitation counseling. Today, life care plans are utilized in many personal injury cases for forensic purposes to outline the future medical and related needs of an individual as the result of an injury or illness along with associated costs of that care. The life care planning process has a strong medically-based element for determining the medical and rehabilitative needs of an injured individual.  
 

Out of a desire to provide opportunity for practicing life care planners to review and obtain a re-understanding of the medical aspects of injury they learned early in their studies, Drs. Virgil Robert May III, Richard Bowman, and Steven Barna recently published a text in May 2024, entitled, “Handbook of Medical Aspects of Disability and Rehabilitation for Life Care Planning”.1 
 

Contributors to this textbook came from a team of various experts, including medical and doctoral level practitioners, covering key areas of traumatic injury and resulting disability that are often faced by life care planners. The book is comprised of 22 chapters, encompassing a variety of topics, including but not limited to:  

• independent medical evaluations,  

• psychosocial aspects of chronic illness and disability,  

• the pediatric life care and vocational evaluation,  

• acquired brain injury,  

• traumatic brain injury,  

• traumatic spinal cord injury,  

• amputations,  

• pain medicine and life care planning, 

• burn trauma, 

• the medical cost projection. 

The chapter entitled “Third-Party Provider Systems” was written by our very own Vocational and Life Care Plan experts, Larry S. Stokes, Aaron M.  Wolfson, Todd S. Capielano, Lacy H. Sapp, and Ashley G. Lastrapes. In this chapter, they discuss disability and work; impairment ratings; state, federal, Jones Act, longshore and harbor worker’ compensation, as well as Social Security Administration. We want to acknowledge their hard work, research,  and dedication to their contribution to this book publication.
 
Please feel free to contact our office to discuss the chapter.