Main description:

This is a comprehensive book on physiotherapy for adult neurological disorders with chapters describing physiotherapy assessment and management for those adult patients in the acute care and rehabilitation units of hospitals or centers. Each chapter additionally provides brief introduction, historical background, etiology, pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, medical and surgical management. The aim is to help build a theoretical foundation on which principles of management are laid, and to improve and update the readers' clinical and therapeutic skills.

Improving the overall care and management of patients suffering from adult neurological conditions such as stroke, Parkinson's disease, traumatic brain injury, and multiple sclerosis, is the key objective. Supported with ample practical contents (exercise training and therapeutic strategies) and pictures it prepares the readers to effectively manage patients with neurological conditions.

The contents of this book will serve as a guide and source of knowledge of both contemporary and advanced treatment techniques for undergraduate and post-graduate students and therapists practicing worldwide in adult neurological physiotherapy.

Contents:

1 NEUROPLASTICITY 2 THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES 2A Rood's Sensorimotor Approach 2B BOBATH APPROACH 2C BRUNNSTROM'S APPROACH 2D PROPRIOCEPTIVE NEUROMUSCULAR FACILITATION IN NEUROREHABILITATION 2E MOTOR RELEARNING PROGRAM 2F CONSTRAINT-INDUCED MOVEMENT THERAPY 3 Stroke 4 EXTRAPYRAMIDAL DISORDERS 5 CEREBELLAR DYSFUNCTION 6 TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY 7 VESTIBULAR REHABILITATION 8 MOTOR NEURON DISEASE 9 MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS 10 INFECTIONS OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM 11 PERIPHERAL NERVE DISORDERS 12 MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES 13 MYASTHENIA GRAVIS 14 PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS 15 NEUROBEHAVIORAL ISSUES IN ADULT NEUROLOGICAL CONDITIONS 16 GADGETS AND TECHNOLOGIES IN ADULT NEUROLOGICAL PHYSIOTHERAPY