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Rehabilitation of Neurological Patient
Loss of health and independence is one of the most difficult losses for every patient and his family. Damage occurs in the patient that they cause the inability to perform activities of daily living. Following the stabilization of the condition, a health care plan is developed that aims to maintain physical functions and prevent complications so that the patient in order to be in the best physical condition for rehabilitation. The patient needs full medical care and rehabilitation to return to daily life as soon as possible.
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Neurology and rehabilitation in the United Kingdom: a view
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 1992
The relationship between neurology and rehabilitation medicine is discussed. The question "Does rehabilitation work?" is not useful. Rather, it should be asked when and how specific rehabilitation techniques should be applied? A satisfactory solution to these questions will not be found without informed neurological involvement. It is argued that the management of most neurological diseases would be improved if neurologists were more familiar with the principles of rehabilitation medicine. Two possible avenues for future development would be the appointment of neurologists with a specific commitment to rehabilitation, and the establishment of academic centres for restorative neurology.
Neurological rehabilitation: a science struggling to come of age
Physiotherapy Research International, 2002
Over the last few decades, there have been considerable improvements in the outcome of stroke patients both as regards mortality and disability. At least some of these improvements can be attributed to better organization of services and improved rehabilitation. Many patients, however, remain severely disabled and we will need to develop new strategies in which the focus will be on reversing impairments rather than simply helping patients to adapt to unaltered impairments. For this to happen, neurological rehabilitation research will have to develop therapies that have a clearly defined rationale and are rooted in neurosciences, are clinically described, are addressed to a well-characterized target population and are evaluated using appropriate outcome measures. Few studies at present meet all these criteria. The recent revolution in our understanding of the nervous system as being soft-wired, of the potential for recovery through reorganization and of the central role of afferent information associated with normal activity is ground for optimism and indicates the direction in which future therapies should be sought. The paper considers some approaches to providing appropriate afferent information, including inputs such as that from electrotherapy, novel approaches to assisted activity and constraint-induced therapy. We are on the verge of a revolution in neurological rehabilitation. If we exploit the new understanding of the nervous system arising from basic neurosciences in developing and evaluating therapies we should be able to build on the achievements of the last few decades so that fewer of our patients have to carry the burden of severe disability.
NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL REHABILITATION
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Community Rehabilitation in Neurology
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Rehabilitation for the neurologic patient
The Veterinary clinics of North America. Small animal practice, 2005
A properly designed rehabilitation program should be an important component of the treatment plan of animals with neurologic disease. Such a program should be designed in conjunction with appropriate treatment of the underlying problem and after special consideration of the origin of the neurologic problem, the severity of the signs, the cause of the signs, their anticipated progression, and the needs of the owner and the pet. This article describes the pathophysiology of injury and recovery in the central and peripheral nervous systems, assessment of the neurologic patient, data on the prognosis and expected course of recovery for a variety of different diseases, and rehabilitation exercises appropriate for neurologic patients.
Cognitive rehabilitation: an important tool in disability improvement after brain injuries
Balneo Research Journal, 2016
Cognitive rehabilitation is as an important goal of rehabilitation therapy, which aims to help the person with neurological disability to acquire the highest level of cognitive functioning and of functional autonomy. Cognitive impairments in memory, language, judgement, attention, visuo-spatial perception are important blocks in acquiring functional independence. Cognitive rehabilitation therapy is "a systematic, functionally oriented service of therapeutic cognitive activities directed to achieve functional changes by reinforcing, strengthening or establishing previously learned patterns of behavior or establishing new patterns of cognitive activity or mechanisms to compensate ". The cognitive treatment programs include retraining strategies or the use of compensatory skills, but also counseling, environmental reorganization and use of educational and vocational training facilities. Cognitive rehabilitation requires a sustained and coordinated effort from a large team, including the patient, family and caregivers. There is an increasing evidence supporting the role and efficacy of cognitive rehabilitationin each cognitive domain. In the future, there is a need to develop innovative treatments, aiming to modulate cortical networks and to obtain long term improvements of all cognitive functions.