Case Studies in Neurological Rehabilitation

Explores a multitude of clinical scenarios in rehabilitation medicine, advising on management issues and options.

Tarek A-Z. K. Gaber (Author)

9780521697163, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 27 March 2008

204 pages, 1 b/w illus. 45 tables
23 x 15 x 1 cm, 0.34 kg

'… a useful study resource and overview of common neurologic problems that arise in patients on the rehabilitation floor.' Doody's Book Review

Rehabilitation medicine is one of the fastest growing specialities in medicine. The largest sub-set of this field is neurological rehabilitation. This timely book, presented as a series of case studies, describes the wide range of clinical scenarios encountered by the rehabilitation medicine team and advises on management issues and options. Areas covered include ethical, medico-legal and social factors, touching on issues such as service organisation and patient reintegration. The book concludes with a set of multiple choice questions to test understanding and as the basis for preparation for professional examinations. This will be essential reading for all trainees in rehabilitation medicine, specialists from fields such as neurology where an understanding of the principles is important, and professionals from supportive allied health disciplines including physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy and nursing.

Preface
Part I. The Rehabilitation Consultation
The Rehabilitation Unit: Part II. Medical Issues in Brain Injury Rehabilitation: 1. Post-traumatic seizures
2. Episodic agitation following Herpes Simplex Encephalitis
3. Hypopituitarism
4. Anxiety following head injury
5. Hydrocephalus following Saubarachnoid Haemorhage
6. Autonomic impairment following brain injury
7. Locked-in Syndrome
8. Pharmacological management of attention impairment
9. Rehabilitation of Pontine Myelinolysis
10. Assessment of frontal lobe function
11. An aggressive patient
Progressive neurological disorders: 12. Ataxia in Multiple Sclerosis
13. Psychiatric manifestations in Huntington Disease
14. End Stage Duchenne Muscle Dystrophy
15. Recurrent aspiration in a Parkinson's patient
Medical complications of immobility: 16. Thromboembolism
17. Osteoporosis
18. Pressure sores
19. Heterotopic ossification
Orthotics in neurological rehabilitation: 20. Secondary Scoliosis
21. Post Polio Syndrome
22. Charcot Joint
Ethical and medico-legal controversies: 23. Wandering patients
24. Rehabilitation of ethnic minorities
25. Service provision for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Chronic pain: 26. Central pain syndrome
27. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
28. Shoulder pain following stroke
Medically Unexplained Disabilities: 29. Conversion Syndrome
30. Somatisation in Multiple Sclerosis
31. Complementary and alternative medicine
Spasticity management: 32. Management of spastic Equino-varus deformity
33. Management of severe generalised spasticity
Ventilatory support in Rehabilitation: 34. Artificial ventilation in Guillain Barre Syndrome
35. Diaphragmatic paralysis
Sphincteric dysfunction: 36. Botulinum Toxin for Neuropathic Bladder
37. Bowel Dysfunction following spinal injury
Communication disability: 38. Expressive aphasia
39. Jargon aphasia
40. Hypokinetic dysarthria
Sensory disability: 41. Cortical Blindness
42. Visual Spatial Neglect
Prescriptions for independence: 43. Exercise prescription
44. Vocational Rehabilitation
45. Driving assessment
Part III. Multiple Choice Questions in Neurological Rehabilitation: Multiple Choice Questions Answers.

Subject Areas: Rehabilitation [MQV], Occupational therapy [MQT], Neurology & clinical neurophysiology [MJN]