Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 664 p. One third of people after stroke, having survived the first few weeks, return home with significant residual disability, and can therefore benefit from an active, multidisciplinary rehabilitation programme. This is a comprehensive guide to rehabilitation after stroke, in which leading international authorities set out the...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. — 277 p. Stroke Rehabilitation: Insights from Neuroscience and Imaging informs and challenges neurologists, rehabilitation therapists, imagers, and stroke specialists to adopt more restorative and scientific approaches to stroke rehabilitation based on new evidence from neuroscience and neuroimaging literatures. The fields of cognitive...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 307 p. Increasing evidence identifies the possibility of restoring function to the damaged brain via exogenous therapies. One major target for these advances is stroke, where most patients can be left with significant disability. Treatments have the potential to improve the victim's quality of life significantly and reduce the time...
3rd edition. — Plural Publishing, 2019. — 523 p. — (Clinical Dysphagia) — ISBN: 978-1-63550-030-1 Dysphagia Following Stroke, Third Edition is a practical and easy-to-use resource for clinicians treating swallowing disorders in the stroke population. The authors bridge the gap between academic and clinical practice with up-to-date research and clinical case examples...
4th edition. — Elsevier, 2016. — 812 p. — ISBN: 978-0-323-17281-3. Learn to confidently manage the growing number of stroke rehabilitation clients with Gillen’s Stroke Rehabilitation: A Function-Based Approach, 4th Edition. Using a holistic and multidisciplinary approach, this text remains the only comprehensive, evidence-based stroke rehabilitation resource for occupational...
New York: Springer, 2016. — 407 p. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest research in the role of non-neuronal cells - astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, endothelial cells, pericytes, microglia, and other immune cells in ischemic brain injury and long-term recovery. In these cases, neurodegeneration and brain repair are controlled in a sophisticated system,...
Butterworth–Heinemann, 2003. — 171 p. Nationwide there has been an increase in demand for rehabilitation services brought on by an increasingly aging population and improved survival rates after stroke due to advancing medical care and technology. This is a clinical reference that maps out the rehabilitative care of stroke patients. This title covers everything from clinical...
Demos Medical Publishing, 2009. — 243 p. Billions of dollars are spent each year researching stroke rehabilitation and treatment techniques, but most are not well communicated to patients or caregivers. As a result, many stroke survivors are treated with outdated or ineffective therapies. Stronger After Stroke puts the power of recovery in the reader’s hands by providing easy...
New York: Demos Health, 2012. — 290 p. Stronger After Stroke puts the power of recovery in the reader's hands by providing simple-to-follow instructions for reaching the highest possible level of recovery. Basic concepts covered include repetition of task-specific practice, proper scheduling of practice, setting goals and measuring recovery. Sections new to the second edition...
Taylor & Francis, 2005. — 130 p. Nick Losseff and his team of contributors provide the reader, whether consultant, trainee neurologist, or neurological rehabilitation nurse, with interdisciplinary perspectives on how to rehabilitate patients. Highlighting the special skills required for the effective rehabilitation of stroke patients, they take the reader from bedside to...
Springer, 2021. — 284 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-58504-4. This book focuses on practical clinical problems that are frequently encountered in stroke rehabilitation. Consequences of diseases, e.g. impairments and activity limitations, are addressed in rehabilitation with the overall goal to reduce disability and promote participation. Based on the available best external evidence,...
Informa Healthcare, 2007. — 129 p. This color-illustrated text presents the reader with an overview of the best-practice management protocols for acute stroke, as practiced by a major medical centre. For senior staff the book describes key considerations in establishing and running an acute stroke facility on an on-going basis, and for other members of the care team, how their...
Singing Dragon, 2019. — 619 p. — ISBN: 978-0-85701-327-9 A guide to yoga therapy for post-stroke rehabilitation, this book is for yoga teachers and yoga therapists, but also for occupational, recreational, physical and speech therapists who work with people with stroke and may integrate yoga into their practice.Rooted in evidence-based research and written by two yoga teachers...
Demos Medical Publishing, 2009. — 817 p. The book is the new gold standard comprehensive guide to the management of stroke patients. Beginning with detailed information on risk factors, epidemiology, prevention, and neurophysiology, the book details the acute and long-term treatment of all stroke-related impairments and complications. Additional sections discuss psychological...
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