Clinical disorders of balance, posture and gait
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Clinical disorders of balance, posture and gait
Arnold , Co-published in the USA by Oxford University Press, 1996
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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内容説明
The diagnosis and treatment of the patient with critically impaired walking abilities present the busy physician with a formidable challenge. This book provides a comprehensive account of the various balance, posture and gait disorders, and of the methods for Their effective Read More ...management. The text is divided into five sections dealing with the normal and developmental aspects, the assessment, the clinical disorders and the rehabilitation of balance and gait, as well as with the specifics of gait and balance disorders in the elderly. The authors discuss common clinical problems: difficulty in keeping one's balance, dizziness, or difficulty in walking. Symptoms like these are able to attribute a host of different disorders of the motor system, the muscoloskeletal apparatus, the vestibular system, or even psychological imbalance, so the editors have taken to cross-disciplinary approach to the subject. Neurologists, psychiatrists, Physiologists, orthopedic surgeons, neuro-otologists, geriatricians, physiotherapists and havebeen Recruited as contributors and Encouraged to tread across frontiers so as to Provide a multi-directional view of the various ailments. The aim of this volume is not to exhaust any specific disease Resulting in the impairment of gait, balance, or posture. Rather, the editors emphasize the need for physicians dealing with gait and balance disorders to broaden Their knowledge of other medical specialties, and set out from a more exhaustive base When looking for the cause of disease.
目次
- Posture and equilibrium
- neuro-bio-mechanical bases for the control of human locomotion
- development of balance and gait control
- assessment of gait disorders
- clinical neurological assessment of balance and gait disorders
- neuro-otological assessment of the patient with balance and gait disorder
- vestibulo-spinal and proprioceptive reflex assessment of balance control
- postural imbalance in peripheral and central vestibular disorders
- cerebellar and spino-cerebellar gait disorders
- basal ganglia gait disorders
- spastic gait disorders
- drop attacks
- frontal gait disorders
- physiological imbalance and psychogenic disorders of stance and gait
- rehabilitation of balance disorders in the patient with vestibular pathology
- neurological rehabilitation of gait and balance disorders
- psychological aspects of balance disorders
- balance control in the elderly
- gait disorders and falls in the elderly
- medications and falls and fall-related injuries in the elderly
- falls in the elderly - a clinical view.
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