Rehabilitation in Movement Disorders [Hardcover]

Provides a broad overview of current rehabilitation approaches, emphasizing the need for interdisciplinary management and focussing on deliverable outcomes.Providing comprehensive care for patients with movement disorders is extremely challenging owing to the complexity of these disorders. This book focuses on rehabilitation approaches which attempt to minimize impairment and maximize patient participation. Essential reading for neurologists, geriatricians, rehabilitation specialists and allied health professionals seeking to effectively manage these disorders.Providing comprehensive care for patients with movement disorders is extremely challenging owing to the complexity of these disorders. This book focuses on rehabilitation approaches which attempt to minimize impairment and maximize patient participation. Essential reading for neurologists, geriatricians, rehabilitation specialists and allied health professionals seeking to effectively manage these disorders.Movement disorders affect a growing patient population, but providing comprehensive care is extremely difficult. Several of these conditions are progressive and incurable; the basal ganglia has a complex role in movement control, with many potential malfunctions. This book focuses on rehabilitation approaches that have been developed and utilized internationally in an attempt to minimize impairment and maximize participation amongst these patients. Each chapter is written by movement disorder experts, rehabilitation specialists and health care professionals, giving a broad overview of current interventions and emphasizing the need for interdisciplinary management, focussing on deliverable outcomes. Common conditions such as Parkinson's disease, cerebral palsy, dystonia and Huntington's disease are comprehensively covered. This book gives neurologists, geriatricians and rehabilitation specialists an up-to-date, theoretically-based approach to managing movement disorders related to basal ganglia malfunction. lcB