This new edition of a best-selling guide incorporates significant advances in the early and later rehabilitation of neurologically impaired patients. Based on the Bobath concept, Davies' approach to rehabilitation stresses the need to equip the patient for a full life, rather than setting arbitrary goals for functioning in a sheltered environment. Activities are described for correcting abnormal movement patterns and facial difficulties. Ways to regain walking, balance and other normal movement sequences are explained and demonstrated with 750 photographs of patients being treated.
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In the 15 years since publication of the first edition, Steps to Follow has gained a worldwide reputation among professionals as a unique practical guide to the treatment of neurologically impaired patients. This second, completely updated edition incorporates significant practical advances in early and later neurorehabilitation and in the understanding of the problems confronting both patients and those who work with them. The relevant therapeutic activities to improve functional ability and quality of life following a stroke are described in detail twith the help of 750 photos showing patients in action during treatment: - Practical ways in which patients can be helped to interact more normally with their environment and so regain their independence, in spite of the perceptual disorders often associated with hemiplegia - More detailed explanation of hand function and more in-depth analysis of normal walking - Revised chapters on the various therapeutic activities, including new means of stimulating selective movements in order to counteract increases in muscle tone - Deeper understanding of abdominal muscle activity, which is relevant to retraining balance reactions and sitting and standing - A new chapter demonstrating how David Butlers concept of the mobilisation of neural structures throughout the body can be of inestimable value - Examples of ways in which therapists, nurses and relatives can help very severely disabled patients to avoid the development of secondary complications or overcome existing difficulties - Ways in whicfh the patient can maintain mobility and continue to make progress even after cessation of treatment, by exercising at home and participating in sporting and other leisure activities.
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A must for any therapist working with adult CVA!,
By Deborah Reese (kc218@hotmail.com) (Enid, Oklahoma) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Steps to Follow: A Guide to the Treatment of Adult Hemiplegia: Based on the Concept of K. and B. Bobath (Paperback)
Patricia Davies Gives very descriptive, practical approaches that work. Even if you have not had specific NDT training, you can, as a therapist, learn from, and follow her approach. There are plenty of pictures to help guide. If you are a physical or occupational therapist even attempting to work with adults who have had neuro. dysfunction, you owe it to them to read this book!
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This review is from: Steps to Follow: A Guide to the Treatment of Adult Hemiplegia (Paperback)
My son has a traumatic brain injury and right side hemiphagia. He doesn't talk, eat, or walk. I have purchased many books over the past year to help me help him. This book is the best practical guide with great illustrations and common sense suggestions for hemiphagia patients. I am looking forward to reading her other book (Starting Again).
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This review is from: Steps to Follow: The Comprehensive Treatment of Patients with Hemiplegia (Paperback)
Great book with many guidelines for physios and homecarer's. Comprehensive how to's with many pictures. It's really a steps to follow manual.
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In the rehabilitation of patients who have suffered a stroke or some other unilateral brain lesion there is a widespread tendency to focus attention only on those problems which can actually be seen. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hemiplegic foot, hemiplegic leg, retraining balance reactions, hemiplegic hip, hemiplegic knee, hemiplegic hand, hemiplegic side, normal movement sequences, therapist kneels, total extension pattern, selective flexion, marked hypertonus, hemiplegic arm, pusher syndrome, facilitating walking, plantar inversion, sound buttock, trunk side flexors, patient clasps, extensor hypertonicity, therapist moves the patient, mass synergies, bilateral hemiplegia, left hemiplegia, right hemiplegia Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Shoulder Problems Associated, Hemiplegia Fig, Re-educating Functional Walking, Including Nervous System Mobilisation, Out of Line, Upper Limb Tension Test, Home Fig, Nonverbal Communication, The Neglected Face Fig, Additional Considerations When Choosing, Causes of Subluxation, Causes of the Hand Syndrome, King's College Hospital, Pelvic Tilting, Some Activities of Daily Living Fig, Some Common Problems Associated, Treatment Fig New!
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In the rehabilitation of patients who have suffered a stroke or some other unilateral brain lesion there is a widespread tendency to focus attention only on those problems which can actually be seen. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hemiplegic foot, hemiplegic leg, retraining balance reactions, hemiplegic hip, hemiplegic knee, hemiplegic hand, hemiplegic side, normal movement sequences, therapist kneels, total extension pattern, selective flexion, marked hypertonus, hemiplegic arm, pusher syndrome, facilitating walking, plantar inversion, sound buttock, trunk side flexors, patient clasps, extensor hypertonicity, therapist moves the patient, mass synergies, bilateral hemiplegia, left hemiplegia, right hemiplegia Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Shoulder Problems Associated, Hemiplegia Fig, Re-educating Functional Walking, Including Nervous System Mobilisation, Out of Line, Upper Limb Tension Test, Home Fig, Nonverbal Communication, The Neglected Face Fig, Additional Considerations When Choosing, Causes of Subluxation, Causes of the Hand Syndrome, King's College Hospital, Pelvic Tilting, Some Activities of Daily Living Fig, Some Common Problems Associated, Treatment Fig New!
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- Shoulder Pain (Pain Series) by Rene Cailliet on page 338
- The Grasping Hand, Volume 104 (Advances in Psychology) by C.L. MacKenzie on page 52
- Physical Therapy and the Stroke Patient (Physical Therapy in Health Care) by Susan S Rose on page 53
- Movement and Action in Learning and Development: Clinical Implications for Pervasive Developmental Disorders by Ida Stockman on page 212
- Stroke Rehabilitation: A Collaborative Approach by Robert Fawcus on page 111
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