Adult Hemiplegia Evaluation and Treatment
Evaluation and Treatment

Berta Bobath (Author)

9780750601689, Elsevier Health Sciences

Paperback, published 30 June 1990

208 pages
27 x 18 x 1.4 cm, 0.32 kg

This, the third edition of Berta Bobath's classic work, shows the continuation and development of treatment, while the underlying concept on which treatment was based has not changed. However, the emphasis on treatment is now more on the patient's active participation in partnership with the therapist in the holistic approach to the patient's individual problems. Moreover, treatment is no longer confined to academic exercises divorced from daily life, but makes use of familiar daily items, for example beds, tables, chairs, walls and stairs so that the patient can apply the treatment 'sessions' to daily activities.


Berta Bobath has introduced some 25 per cent of new material consisting of the nature of the handicap, neurophysiological considerations, normal automatic postural reactions and abnormal postural reflex activity. In addition to the new artwork included, most of the existing artwork has been replaced. All the remaining sections have been considerably revised, updated and expanded.

This new edition enables both therapy students and their teachers to increase their awareness of the problems and needs of individual patients and so increase their ability to provide the greatest possible assistance.

Foreword
Preface
Introduction
The nature of the handicap of patients with brain lesions such as adult hemiplegia
Normal automatic postural reactions
Abnormal postural reflex activity
Evaluation of motor patterns for initial assessment, planning of treatment and progress
The concept and principles of treatment
Techniques of treatment
Example of treatment - case history of A.B.
References
Further reading
Index.

Subject Areas: Physiotherapy [MQS]