Neurological Rehabilitation : Optimizing Motor Performance

Shepherd, Roberta B., Carr, Janet H.

ISBN 10: 0750609710 / ISBN 13: 9780750609715

Editore: Elsevier Health Sciences, 1998

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• Titolo: Neurological Rehabilitation : Optimizing Motor Performance
• Editore: Elsevier Health Sciences
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0750609710
• ISBN 13: 9780750609715
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Edizione: 2nd Edition.
• Condizione: Very Good

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Riassunto

Neurological Rehabilitation is a completely revised and thoroughly updated replacement for Physiotherapy in Disorders of the Brain which was published in June 1980. Many advances have been in the understanding and treatment of adults with injuries to the brain, whether caused by accident or disease, and this book will incorporate these changes.

Contenuti

Preface; Acknowledgements; Part one: Introduction: Adaptation, Training and Measurement: The adaptive system: plasticity and recovery; Training motor control, increasing strength and fitness, promoting skill acquisition; Measurement; Part two: Task-related Exercise and Training: Standing up and sitting down; Walking; Reaching and manipulation; Balance; Part three: Impairment and Disability Associated with Brain Lesion: The upper motor neuron syndrome; Cerebellar ataxia; Somatos sensory and perceptual-cognitive impairments; Stroke; Traumatic brain injury; Parkinson's disease; Multiple sclerosis; Index.