Download or read book The Effects of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation rTMS and Sensory Cueing SC on Unilateral Neglect and Hemiplegic Upper Limb Functions in Patients After Stroke written by Yonghong Yang and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second pilot study investigated the effects of a 2-week programme of sensory cueing (SC) treatment alone conducted in inpatients with UN after following subacute stroke. A single-group, single-case design study was applied; 5 post-stroke UN patients with unilateral spatial neglect underwent a tailored sensory cueing treatment, in addition to conventional rehabilitation, for 2 weeks. Significant changes in the BIT-C scores were found between the baseline and post-interventional testing. Further analysis of the BITC test items in the BIT-C showed that the significant improvement was mostly found mostly in the cancellation subtest; the m. More severe the impairment in UN the patient had, the more significant was the increase in the BIT-C results was found. SC treatment, alone, may be useful and feasible in reducing neglect by improving attention to the contralesional body side of the body, in this neglect patient populations; with subacute stroke, however, a randomized controlled trial (RCT), with proper sample sizes, larger treatment intensitiesy, and longer term of follow-up would beare necessary to prove the effects. In the main study, we compared the effects of low frequency rTMS combined with SC, rTMS alone, and conventional rehabilitation in an RCT that focused on reducing UN and improving hemiplegic arm functions and the performance of activities of daily living (ADL). Sixty subacute patients with left UN, after right hemispheric stroke, were randomly assigned to 1 of the 3 groups. Low frequency (1 Hz) rTMS was applied over P5 of the contralesional hemisphere while vibrational SC was emitted (3 h/day, 5 days/week) using a wristwatch device attached to the hemiplegic arm for 2 weeks. The 3 groups received the same amount of conventional rehabilitation on top of their experimental interventions. Blinded assessments were administered at baseline, 2 weeks postintervention, and 4-weeks after completing the training. As a result, the patients receiving combined low frequency rTMS and SC or rTMS alone demonstrated significantly reduced UN, when measured using the BIT-C; the combination was more effective than rTMS alone. Hemiplegic arm functions and ADL improved in all patients, across the 3 groups, with no significant differences found among the groups. In conclusion, rTMS combined with SC, was better than either rTMS alone, or conventional rehabilitation in producing immediate and long-lasting improvements. The combination treatment might assist in restoring the interhemispheric balance of spatial attention in these types of patients with UN, but the improvements are not associated with arm functions or ADL. This study shows that brain stimulation combined with rehabilitation intervention can assist in restoring the interhemispheric balance of spatial attention after subacute stroke and hence reduce the symptoms of UN. The findings of this thesis would contribute to the scientific evidence and neuroscience, and assist in the design of theorybased treatment in rehabilitation for UN in stroke worldwide.
Download or read book Rehabilitation with rTMS written by Masahiro Abo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is increasingly being studied and used in stroke rehabilitation. This handbook is the first concise guide for clinicians and researchers working with or learning about rTMS in stroke rehabilitation. It gives you a practical guide to the novel use of rTMS in combination with intensive rehabilitation for the treatment of neurological sequelae of stroke. The application areas included are post-stroke upper limb hemiparesis, lower limb hemiparesis, aphasia and dysphagia.
Download or read book Constraint induced Movement Therapy written by G. Uswatte and published by Ios PressInc. This book was released on 2006 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constraint-Induced Movement therapy (CI therapy) is a behavioral approach to neurorehabilitation based on a program of neuroscience experiments conducted with monkeys. Evidence has accumulated to support the efficacy of CI therapy for rehabilitating hemiparetic arm use in individuals with chronic stroke. This book addresses the related topics.
Download or read book Textbook of Stroke Medicine written by Michael Brainin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully revised throughout, the new edition of this concise textbook is aimed at doctors preparing to specialize in stroke care.
Download or read book Clinical Pathways in Stroke Rehabilitation written by Thomas Platz and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access 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, clinical pathways are described for stroke rehabilitation bridging the gap between clinical evidence and clinical decision-making. The clinical pathways answer the questions which rehabilitation treatment options are beneficial to overcome specific impairment constellations and activity limitations and are well acceptable to stroke survivors, as well as when and in which settings to provide rehabilitation over the course of recovery post stroke. Each chapter starts with a description of the clinical problem encountered. This is followed by a systematic, but concise review of the evidence (RCTs, systematic reviews and meta-analyses) that is relevant for clinical decision-making, and comments on assessment, therapy (training, technology, medication), and the use of technical aids as appropriate. Based on these summaries, clinical algorithms / pathways are provided and the main clinical-decision situations are portrayed. The book is invaluable for all neurorehabilitation team members, clinicians, nurses, and therapists in neurology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, and related fields. It is a World Federation for NeuroRehabilitation (WFNR) educational initiative, bridging the gap between the rapidly expanding clinical research in stroke rehabilitation and clinical practice across societies and continents. It can be used for both clinical decision-making for individuals and as well as clinical background knowledge for stroke rehabilitation service development initiatives.
Download or read book Brain Repair After Stroke written by Steven C. Cramer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-28 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 and expense of rehabilitation. Brain Repair After Stroke reviews the biology of spontaneous brain repair after stroke in animal models and in humans. Detailed chapters cover the many forms of therapy being explored to promote brain repair and consider clinical trial issues in this context. This book provides a summary of the neurobiology of innate and treatment-induced repair mechanisms after hypoxia and reviews the state of the art for human therapeutics in relation to promoting behavioral recovery after stroke. Essential reading for stroke physicians, neurologists, rehabilitation physicians and neuropsychologists.
Download or read book Erhardt Developmental Prehension Assessment written by Rhoda Priest Erhardt and published by . This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Interaction of BCI with the underlying neurological conditions in patients pros and cons written by Jaime Pineda and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing provided
Download or read book Spatial Neglect written by Peter W. Halligan and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spatial neglect is a profound clinical problem as well as intriguing scientific problem. In the last ten years, there has been an explosion of interest in this disorder, which as a result is no longer viewed as a single entity, but rather as a number of different disorders. This book is an attempt to bring the reader up to date with the latest advances in understanding neglect, at least insofar as this contributes to better clinical assessment, management and treatment. This is not a book for the specialist researcher in the neuropsychology of neglect and attention. Rather, it is a book aimed at clinicians - student and trained - from all disciplines involved in the assessment, management and treatment of neglect. The book begins with the description of four cases manifesting different types of unilateral neglect. The reader is introduced to different aspects of neglect through these patients. These distinctions include those between personal and extrapersonal neglect, motor versus sensory neglect and many others. The reader is also introduced to other phenomena that are closely related to neglect, including ansognosia and impaired sustained attention. The latest methodes of assessment of neglect are also described, as are methods of treatment, again with reference to the four introductory specimen cases.
Download or read book The Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology of Stroke written by Olivier Godefroy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-18 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The care of stroke patients has changed dramatically. As well as improvements in the emergency care of the condition, there have been marked advances in our understanding, management and rehabilitation of residual deficits. This book is about the care of stroke patients, focusing on behavioural and cognitive problems. It provides a comprehensive review of the field covering the diagnostic value of these conditions, in the acute and later phases, their requirements in terms of treatment and management and the likelihood and significance of long-term disability. This book will appeal to all clinicians involved in the care of stroke patients, as well as to neuropsychologists, other rehabilitation therapists and research scientists investigating the underlying neuroscience.
Download or read book Lifespan Neurorehabilitation written by Dennis Fell and published by F.A. Davis. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 1249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The neuro rehab text that mirrors how you learn and how you practice! Take an evidence-based approach to the neurorehabilitation of adult and pediatric patients across the lifespan that reflects the APTA’s patient management model and the WHO’s International Classification of Function (ICF). You’ll study examination and interventions from the body structure/function impairments and functional activity limitations commonly encountered in patients with neurologic disorders. Then, understanding the disablement process, you’ll be able to organize the clinical data that leads to therapeutic interventions for specific underlying impairments and functional activity limitations that can then be applied as appropriate anytime they are detected, regardless of the medical diagnosis.
Download or read book Key Issues in Neurological Physiotherapy written by Louise Ada and published by Heinemann Medical. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Behavioral Aspects of Epilepsy written by Gregory L. Holmes, MD and published by Demos Medical Publishing. This book was released on 2007-10-15 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of epilepsy and behavior has grown considerably in the past number of years, reflecting advances in the laboratory and clinic. Behavioral Aspects of Epilepsy: Principles and Practice is the definitive text on epilepsy behavioral issues, from basic science to clinical applications, for all neurologists, psychosocial specialists, and researchers in the fields of epilepsy, neuroscience, and psychology/psychiatry. Behavioral aspects of epilepsy include a patient's experiences during seizures, his or her reaction during and between seizures, the frequency of episodes and what can be determined from the number of seizures. With contributions by dozens of leading international experts, this is the only book to cover all aspects of this critical emerging science. Adult and pediatric patients, animal models, and epilepsy surgery and its effects are all covered in detail. Behavioral Aspects of Epilepsy is the only source for up-to-date information on a topic that has significant and growing interest in the medical community. This comprehensive, authoritative text has a bench to bedside, approach that covers: The mechanisms underlying epilepsy and behavior Neurophysiologic function Neuropsychiatric and behavioral disorders in patients with epilepsy The effects of treatments and surgery on behavior Pediatric and adolescent epilepsy Disorders associated with epilepsy that impact behavior And much more
Download or read book The Cognitive and Neural Bases of Spatial Neglect written by Hans-Otto Karnath and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spatial neglect is a disorder of space-related behaviour. It is characterized by failure to explore the side of space contralateral to a brain lesion, or to react or respond to stimuli or subjects located on this side. Research on spatial neglect and related disorders has developed rapidly inrecent years. These advances have been made as a result of neuropsychological studies of patients with brain damage, behavioural studies of animal models, as well as through functional neurophysiological experiments and functional neuroimaging.The Cognitive and Neural Bases of Spatial Neglect provides an overview of this wide-ranging field of scientific endeavour, providing a cohesive synthesis of the most recent observations and results. As well as being a fascinating clinical phenomenon, the study of spatial neglect helps us tounderstand normal mechanisms of directing and maintaining spatial attention and is relevant to the contemporary search for the cerebral correlates of conscious experience, voluntary action and the nature of personal identity itself.The book is divided into seven sections covering the anatomical and neurophysiological bases of the disorder, frameworks of neglect, perceptual and motor factors, the relation to attention, the cognitive processes involved, and strategies for rehabilitation.Chapters have been written by a team of the leading international experts in this field.This will be essential reading for neuropsychologists, neurologists, neurophysiologists, cognitive neuroscientists and psychologists.
Download or read book Clinical Guidelines for Stroke Management 2010 written by National Stroke Foundation (Australia) and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Clinical Guidelines have been developed to provide a series of evidence-based recommendations related to stroke. Development of the guidelines has been undertaken by a multidisciplinary Expert Working Group (EWG) using methodology consistent with National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) standards."--Publisher's homepage.
Download or read book Subcortical Stroke written by Geoffrey Donnan and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-04-11 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subcortical Stroke is a new and fully revised edition of Lacunar and Other Subcortical Infarctions (OUP, 1995). Stroke is one of the most common causes of death and subcortical stroke accounts for 20-30% of all cerebrovascular infarctions. Our understanding of stroke processes in general, and subcortical stroke in particular, has advanced considerably in recent years. Research findings from the fields of neurochemistry, imaging and genetics have provided insight and input to our understanding of this condition, and this new edition provides an opportunity to describe these advances, and to relate the findings to the clinical expression, neural mechanism, prognosis and treatment of subcortical stroke. In addition, new subcortical syndromes such as CADASIL are covered, as is subcortical haemorrhage. This book presents a comprehensive and authoritative review of the field with contributions from the leading international experts. Subcortical Stroke is for stroke physicians, neurologists and those researching cerebrovascular diseases.
Download or read book Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Cerebrovascular Diseases written by José M. Ferro and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Cerebrovascular Diseases is an up-to-date, comprehensive review of the neuropsychiatry of stroke, by active authorities in the field, with an emphasis on diagnostic and management issues. Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Cerebrovascular Diseases includes critical appraisal of the methodological aspects and limitations of the current research on the neuropsychiatry of stroke and on unanswered questions/controversies. Pharmacological aspects of management are discussed, to provide robust information on drug dosages, side effects and interaction, in order to enable the reader to manage these patients more safely. Illustrative cases provide real life scenarios that are clinically relevant and engaging to read. Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Cerebrovascular Diseases is aimed at neurologists, stroke physicians and psychiatrists, and will also be of interest to intensive care doctors, psychologists ad neuropsychologists, research and specialist nurses, clinical researchers and methodologists.
