Practical and concise, Stroke Rehabilitation provides everyday clinical guidance on current methods, techniques, evidence, and controversies in this important area. This focused resource by Drs. Richard Wilson and Preeti Raghavan consolidates today’s available information in an easy-to-navigate format for today’s practicing and trainee physiatrists, as well as other members of the rehabilitation team.
This 2nd edition remains the only comprehensive evidence-based text on the Occupational Therapy management of the stroke patient. The book is based on the most up-to-date research on stroke rehabilitation...
Beginning with detailed information on risk factors, epidemiology, prevention, and neurophysiology, the book details the acute and long-term treatment of all stroke-related impairments and complications.
There is also ample evidence from these studies that the motor control of everyday actions is task-specific. Here we will discuss, using the reach-to-grasp movement as an example, how the intended action to be performed with an object ...
This second edition is completely updated to reflect recent advances in scientific understanding of neural recovery and growing evidence for new clinical therapies.
This open access book focuses on practical clinical problems that are frequently encountered in stroke rehabilitation.
Extensively updated with the latest research in assessment and intervention, this essential text presents a holistic, application-based approach that integrates background medical information, samples of functionally based evaluations, and ...
Based on scientific rationale and the latest clinical research, this book emphasises the training of effective functional motor performance using methods that both provide a stimulus to the acquisition of skill and increase strength, ...
Karni A, Meyer G, Jezzard P, Adams MM, Turner R, Ungerleider LG. Functional MRI evidence for adult motor cortex ... Carey JR, Durfee WK, Bhatt E, Nagpal A, Weinstein SA, Anderson KM, Lewis SM. Comparison of finger tracking versus simple ...
This issue of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Clinics will focus on stroke rehabilitation and will include articles such as: Mechanisms of stroke recovery, Insights from basic sciences, Stroke recovery and predictors of rehabilitation ...
This book is both an introductory text to the rehabilitation of stroke for student therapists and a reference text for qualified therapists.