Clinical disorders of balance, posture and gait

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Clinical disorders of balance, posture and gait

edited by Adolfo M. Bronstein ... [et al.]

Arnold, 2004

2nd ed.

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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
  • adaptive human locomotion
  • development of balance and gait control
  • classification of balance and gait disorders
  • orthopaedic assessment of gait disorders
  • clinical neurological assessment of balance and gait disorders
  • neuro-otological assessment in the patient with balance and gait disorder
  • objective assessment of posture and gait
  • postural imbalance in peripheral and central vestibular disorders
  • cereballar gait and sensory ataxia
  • gait and balance in basal ganglia disorders
  • spastic movement disorders
  • cerebrovascular disease and hydrocephalus
  • psychiatric aspects of dizziness and imbalance
  • syncope falls and their mimics
  • rehabilitation of balance disorders in the patient with vestibular pathology
  • neurological rehabilitation of gait and balance disorders
  • psychosocial aspects of disorders affecting balance and gait
  • balance control in older adults
  • falls and gait disorders in the elderly - principles of rehabilitation
  • syncope related falls in the older person.

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