Stroke Rehabilitation. Guidelines for Exercise and Training to Optimize Motor Skill
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Author(s): J. Carr and R. Shepherd
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN: 0750647124
Format: softback
301pp
Price: £35.00
Review Date: 24 October 2003
Review: This book provides guidelines for training critical motor actions in patients with stroke in order to optimize performance. The guidelines cover balance, walking, standing up and sitting down, and reaching and manipulating. Reflecting current focus in physiotherapy on the need for evidence-based practice, the guidelines are science-based and include relevant scientific findings for each action, together with descriptions of major biomechanical characteristics, muscle activity, and changes in performance caused by impairments and adaptations. The book is aimed at physiotherapists, occupational therapists, clinicians, and all those involved in the rehabilitation of patients with stroke.