Case Studies in Neurological Rehabilitation

Rehabilitation medicine is one of the fastest growing specialities in medicine. The largest sub-set of this field is neurological rehabilitation. This timely book, presented as a series of case studies, describes the wide range of clinical scenarios encountered by the rehabilitation medicine team and advises on management issues and options. Areas covered include ethical, medico-legal and social factors, touching on issues such as service organisation and patient reintegration. The book concludes with a set of multiple choice questions to test understanding and as the basis for preparation for professional examinations. This will be essential reading for all trainees in rehabilitation medicine, specialists from fields such as neurology where an understanding of the principles is important, and professionals from supportive allied health disciplines including physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy and nursing.

Tarek A.-Z. K. Gaber is a Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine for Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Trust

Preface	p. ix
Clinical rehabilitation
The rehabilitation consultation	p. 3
The rehabilitation unit	p. 6
Case studies
Medical issues in brain injury rehabilitation	p. 11
Post-traumatic seizures	p. 12
Agitation following herpes simplex encephalitis	p. 15
Hypopituitarism following brain injury	p. 17
Anxiety following head injury	p. 20
Hydrocephalus following subarachnoid haemorrhage	p. 23
Autonomic impairment following brain injury	p. 26
Locked-in syndrome	p. 29
Pharmacological management of attention impairment	p. 32
Rehabilitation of pontine myelinolysis	p. 34
Assessment of frontal lobe function	p. 37
An aggressive patient	p. 41
Progressive neurological disorders	p. 44
Ataxia in multiple sclerosis	p. 45
Psychiatric manifestations in Huntington's disease	p. 48
The adult patient with Duchenne muscular dystrophy	p. 51
Recurrent aspiration in a patient with Parkinson's disease	p. 53
Medical complications of immobility	p. 57
Thromboembolism	p. 57
Osteoporosis	p. 61
Pressure sores	p. 64
Heterotopic ossification	p. 67
Orthotics in neurological rehabilitation	p. 70
Secondary scoliosis	p. 71
Post polio syndrome	p. 74
Charcot arthropathy	p. 78
Ethical and medicolegal controversies	p. 82
A wandering patient	p. 83
Rehabilitation of the patient from an ethnic minority	p. 85
Service provision for chronic fatigue syndrome	p. 87
Chronic pain	p. 91
Central pain syndrome	p. 91
Complex regional pain syndrome	p. 94
Shoulder pain following stroke	p. 97
Medically unexplained disorders	p. 101
Conversion syndrome	p. 101
Somatisation in multiple sclerosis	p. 104
Complementary and alternative medicine	p. 107
Spasticity management	p. 110
Management of spastic equinovarus deformity	p. 110
Management of generalised severe spasticity	p. 113
Ventilatory support in rehabilitation	p. 117
Artificial ventilation in Guillain-Barre syndrome	p. 117
Diaphragmatic paralysis	p. 120
Sphincteric dysfunction	p. 123
Botulinum toxin for neuropathic bladder	p. 123
Bowel dysfunction following spinal injury	p. 126
Communication disabilities	p. 130
Expressive aphasia	p. 130
Jargon aphasia	p. 134
Hypokinetic dysarthria	p. 136
Sensory disability	p. 139
Cortical blindness	p. 139
Visual spatial neglect	p. 142
Prescriptions for independence	p. 146
Exercise prescription	p. 146
Vocational rehabilitation	p. 149
Driving assessment	p. 152
Exercises in neurological rehabilitation
Multiple choice questions	p. 157
Multiple choice answers	p. 174
Index	p. 181
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