Recovery after Stroke

Covering neuroscience and rehabilitation strategies, an essential handbook and reference for multidisciplinary stroke rehabilitation teams.

Michael P. Barnes (Edited by), Bruce H. Dobkin (Edited by), Julien Bogousslavsky (Edited by)

9780521105149, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 March 2009

672 pages, 43 b/w illus.
24.4 x 17 x 3.6 cm, 1.05 kg

Review of the hardback: 'I think it is a good addition to the library of general physicians, neurologists and rehabilitation physicians.' Neurosciences

One third of people after stroke, having survived the first few weeks, return home with significant residual disability, and can therefore benefit from an active, multidisciplinary rehabilitation programme. This is a comprehensive guide to rehabilitation after stroke, in which leading international authorities set out the basic neuroscientific principles that underlie brain recovery, including chapters on neural plasticity and neural imaging, and describe appropriate rehabilitation strategies for the many different functional problems that can arise after stroke. These include movement disorders, sensory loss, dysphagia and dysarthria, problems with continence and secual difficulties, and cognitive disorders. Also covered are measurement of disability and quality of life, assistive technology and vocational rehabilitation. It is therefore an essential handbook and reference for all members of the multidisciplinary stroke rehabilitation team, including medical personnel, therapists, clinical neuropsychologists and rehabilitation nurses.

1. Strokes: background, epidemiology, aetiology and avoiding recurrence Gabriel R. de Freitas, Daniel C. Bezerra, Alexandre B. Maulaz and Julien Bogousslavsky
2. Principles of recovery after stroke Bruce H. Dobkin and Thomas S. Carmichael
3. Regenerative ability in the central nervous system Barbro B. Johansson
4. Cerebral reorganisation after sensorimotor stroke Rudiger J. Seitz
5. Imaging brain in recovery after stroke Cornelius Weiller and M. Rijntjes
6. Measurement in stroke - disability and quality of life Angus Graham
7. Evidence based stroke rehabilitation Sharon Wood-Dauphinee and Gert Kwakkel
8. Is early rehabilitation useful? Karin Diserens and Gerhard Rothacher
9. Community rehabilitation after stroke Michael P. Barnes
10. Physical therapy and assessment Gillian D. Baer and Frederike M. J. Van Wijk
11. Movement disorders after stroke J. Ghika
12. Post-stroke spasticity and pain Philippe Vaudens, Michael P. Barnes, R. Peyron and B. Laurent
13. Sensory loss and proprioceptive rehabilitation D. A. Perennou and Adolfo M. Bronstein
14. Dysphagia Jeri A. Logemann
15. Continence after stroke Barbara J. Chandler
16. Sexual problems after stroke Barbara J. Chandler
17. Rehabilitation of visual disorders after stroke Stephanie Clarke and Claire Bindschaedler
18. Dysphasia and dysarthria Marjorie Nicholas
19. Cognitive problems after stroke Antonio Carota, Radok Ptak and Armin Schnider
20. Dementia after stroke Jose G. Merino and Vladimir Hachinski
21. Depression and fatigue after stroke Fabienne Staub and Antonio Carota
22. Sleep disorders after stroke Dirk M. Hermann and Claudio L. Bassetti
23. Assistive technology Neville Hogan, Hermano I. Krebs, Brandon R. Rohrer, Susan E. Fasoli, Joel Stein and Bruce T. Volpe
24. Vocational rehabilitation Ashish Macaden
25. A patient's perspective Donal O'Kelly.

Subject Areas: Rehabilitation [MQV], Neurology & clinical neurophysiology [MJN], Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology [JMM]