Steps to Follow: The Comprehensive Treatment of Patients with Hemiplegia

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See if you have enough points for this item. This new edition of a best-selling guide incorporates significant advances in the early and later rehabilitation of neurologically impaired patients.

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Based on the Bobath concept, Davies' approach to rehabilitation stresses the need to equip the patient for a full life, rather than setting arbitrary goals for functioning in a sheltered environment. Activities are described for correcting abnormal movement patterns and facial difficulties. Ways to regain walking, balance and other normal movement sequences are explained and demonstrated with photographs of patients being treated. The Sensitive Nervous System. Palpation and Assessment Skills: Spinal Manipulation Made Simple. Assessment Skills For Paramedics. Compact Clinical Guide to Mechanical Ventilation.

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Earlier it was regarded as the science of exact diagnosis of incurable illnesses, re- signed to the dogma that damage to the central nervous system could not be repaired: In the adult brain the nerve paths are fixed and immutable - everything can die, but nothing can be regenerated" Cajal Even then this could have been countered with what holds today: He wrote a page article about thera- peutic exercises which appeared in the Handbuch der Neurologie also published by Springer-Verlag. The following sentences from his intro- duction illustrate his opinion of the importance of therapeutic exercises and are close to our views today Foerster This happens spontaneously, when neither a reversal of the da- mage nor a regeneration of the destroyed tissue is possible, simply by means of a reorganisation of the remaining parts of the nervous sys- tem, which is not a machine composed of individual parts that stands still when one part fails; rather, it possesses an admirable plasticity and exhibits an astonishingly extensive adaptability, not only to changed external conditions but also to disruptions of its own sub- stance.

Therapeutic exercises influence the course of spontaneous re- storation; they support it, strengthen it. Not infrequently, in fact, they actually set it in motion when the forces essential to restoration lie fallow and are not deployed by the organism. Research into cells and their connections as well as into neurotransmitter systems, the description of functional changes by means of imaging procedures Frackowiak et a1.

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