This new book by the author of Steps to Follow describes the early rehabilitation of the patient who has sustained a traumatic brain injury or an equally severe lesion due to some other cause. Illustrated with some 600 photographs of actual patients, the broad spectrum of treatment, from the intensive care unit to the re-education of walking is presented in detail. Chapters are included on perceptual disturbances, positioning, moving and standing the unconscious patient; learning to eat, drink and speak again as well as activities for retraining balance and motor control. Ways in which to prevent or overcome loss of range of motion are described in order to give each patient the chance to achieve his or her full potential. The well-referenced book will be of value for all professionals working with brain-injured people, particularly doctors, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists and nurses. Relatives of patients should also have no difficulty in understanding the language used in this text, which will enable them to become actively involved in helping therapeutically.

Starting Again: EARLY REHAB AFTER TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY OR OTHER BRAIN LESION

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Patricia M. Davies

Exercise & Fitness

Springer, Verlag

The treatment and reintegration of adults with brain damage sustained as a result of illness or accident is one of the most important and challenging tasks in the field of rehabilitation. This is not only due to the complexity of the lost functions, but also because stroke is the most frequent cause of severe disability in our society. Approx imately 25% of all severely disabled persons are hemiplegics (Nichols 1976). Brain damage caused by vascular disease is a tremendous problem for any population and civilization. Causes and effects, with the resulting symptoms, vary so widely that the problems are only gradually being recognized, and then perhaps not fully, even by the most committed research workers, doctors and therapists. The function al disturbances that arise as a result of cerebro-vascular accident, that is following stroke, in young and old do not differ fundamentally for the different age groups. Treatment and rehabilitation do however become more difficult with increasing age due mainly to the frequent presence of multiple disease, multiple sites, the diffuse spread of the vascular disease and the brain damage itself, the decreasing plasticity of the central nervous system and the frequent absence of a partner, of relatives and friends in later years. Deep down inside everyone knows that a stroke is one of the most devastating traumas to the whole personality, that it is a dreadful blow to the person directly af fected and to his family and friends as well.

Steps to Follow: A Guide to the Treatment of Adult Hemiplegia

Springer

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Steps to Follow: the Comprehensive Treatment of Patients With Hemiplegia 2e

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