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List of Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction 1
2 What is Rehabilitation? 7
3 Communication and Explanation of Neurological Disability 14
4 The Neurological Patient: the Patient's View 25
5 Rehabilitation Theory 33
6 Damage to the Nervous System 45
7 Plasticity in the Neonatal and Adult Nervous System 59
8 Clinical Neurophysiology in Rehabilitation 82
9 Evaluation and Economics of Treatment in Neurological Rehabilitation 105
10 Audit in Neurological Rehabilitation 113
11 Rehabilitation: the Role of Remedial Therapy 133
12 Rehabilitation of Traumatic Brain Injury 141
13 Rehabilitation after Stroke 157
14 Rehabilitation of Parkinson's Disease 169
15 Rehabilitation in Epilepsy 177
16 The Rehabilitation of Multiple Sclerosis 212
17 Natural History and Rehabilitation in Spinal Cord Damage 221
18 Rehabilitation of Progressive Neuromuscular Diseases 239
19 Rehabilitation of Peripheral Nerve Disorders 250
20 Management of the AIDS Patient 269
21 Management of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome 282
22 Management of Children with Neuromuscular Disorders 295
23 Neurological Rehabilitation in the Elderly 313
24 Management of Spasticity 335
25 Rehabilitation and Management of the Neuropathic Bladder 349
26 Rehabilitation of Faecal Incontinence 382
27 Rehabilitation of the Patient with Persistent Pain 394
28 Management of Communication and Swallowing Disorders 409
29 Management of Sexual Disability 428
30 Genetic Management in Chronic Neurological Disorders 438
31 Sensory Substitution, Volume Transmission and Rehabilitation: Emerging Concepts 457
32 Pharmacological Approaches to Rehabilitation: Noradrenergic Pharmacotherapy and Functional Recovery after Cortical Injury 469
33 Surgical Rehabilitation in Tetraplegia 482
34 Engineering Solutions for Patients with Neurological Disability 504
35 Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) in the Rehabilitation of Patients with Paraplegia and Hemiplegia 519
36 Stimulation Procedures 536
Appendices 559
Index 572