This entirely rewritten edition presents a worldwide overview of the optimal approach to treatment of children with cerebral palsy. Coverage includes the coordination of care and the management team; the types of cerebral palsy; assessment; goal-setting; learning and neural plasticity; global therapeutic approaches and more focused (topical) therapies; the mechanisms of deformity, its prevention and treatment; and the transition to adult life.
Indice testuale
Foreword Martin Bax and David Scrutton; 1. The family's needs: coordination of care and the management team Peter Rosenbaum; 2. The types of cerebral palsy; 3. Multidisciplinary Roslyn Boyd; 4. Goal setting and outcome measures Eva Bower; 5. Global therapeutic approaches and the evolving role of physical therapy Margaret Mayston; 6. Learning and neural plasticity Mary Galea; 7. Focussed therapeutic approaches Diane Damiano; 8. Mechanisms of deformity H. K. Graham; 9. Prevention of deformity Aidan Cosgrove; 10. Treatment and management of hypertonia Jean-Pierre Lin; 11. Transition to adulthood Sue Edwards; 12. Prospects for the future Murray Goldstein; Index.
