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Steps to Follow

The Comprehensive Treatment of Patients with Hemiplegia

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  1. Patricia M. Davies

    1. Switzerland

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  • Enables readers to gain a yet more comprehensive understanding of the problems confronting adults with hemiplegia and those who work with them therapeutically
  • Gives yet more comprehensive instruction on practical ways of helping the patient to interact with their environment and to gain more independence
  • Shows new possibilities for stimulating selective movements in order to counteract increase in muscle tone, covering all relevant therapeutic activities
  • COMPLETELY NEW: incorporates David Butler's concept of MOBILISATION OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM as an integral part of patient treatment

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXXII
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  2. Problems That Cannot Be Seen Directly

    • Patricia M. Davies
    Pages 1-33

  3. Normal Movement Sequences and Balance Reactions

    • Patricia M. Davies
    Pages 34-56

  4. Abnormal Movement Patterns in Hemiplegia

    • Patricia M. Davies
    Pages 57-81

  8. Retraining Balance Reactions in Sitting and Standing

    • Patricia M. Davies
    Pages 166-197

  10. Re-educating Functional Walking

    • Patricia M. Davies
    Pages 235-276

  11. Some Activities of Daily Living

    • Patricia M. Davies
    Pages 277-299

  12. Mat Activities

    • Patricia M. Davies
    Pages 300-321

  13. Shoulder Problems Associated with Hemiplegia

    • Patricia M. Davies
    Pages 322-375

  14. The Neglected Face

    • Patricia M. Davies
    Pages 376-402

  15. Out of Line (the Pusher Syndrome)

    • Patricia M. Davies
    Pages 403-428

  17. Maintaining and Improving Mobility at Home

    • Patricia M. Davies
    Pages 471-499

  18. References

    • Patricia M. Davies
    Pages 500-507

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 508-514
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About this book

A true paradigm shift is taking place in the field of neurology. 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: "Once development is complete, the sources of growth and regeneration ofaxons and dendrites are irretrievably lost. In the adult brain the nerve paths are fixed and immutable - everything can die, but nothing can be regenerated" (Cajal1928). Even then this could have been countered with what holds today: rehabilitation does not take place in the test tube, being supported only a short time later by an authoritative source, the professor of neurology and neurosurgery in Breslau, Otfried Foerster. He wrote a 100-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 areclose to our views today (Foerster 1936): "There is no doubt that most motor disturbances caused by lesions of the nervous system are more or less completely compensated as a re­ sult of a tendency inherent to the organism to carry out as expedient­ ly as possible the tasks of which it is capable under normal circum­ stances, using all the forces still available to it with the remaining un­ damaged parts of the nervous system, even following injury to its sub­
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Switzerland

    Patricia M. Davies

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Steps to Follow

  • Book Subtitle: The Comprehensive Treatment of Patients with Hemiplegia

  • Authors: Patricia M. Davies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57022-3

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-60720-5Published: 08 May 2000

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-57022-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 2

  • Number of Pages: XXXII, 514

  • Number of Illustrations: 427 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Physiotherapy, Neurology, Nursing, Occupational Therapy

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