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• Half title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Contributors
• Preface to the first edition
• Preface to the second edition
• Acknowledgements
• Part 1: Introduction: adaptation, training and measurement
• Chapter 1: The adaptive system:
• Plasticity of the Intact Brain
• Plasticity Following a Brain Lesion
• References
• Chapter 2: Training motor control, increasing strength and fitness and promoting skill acquisition
• Introduction to Training Motor Control
• Task-Oriented Exercise and Training to Optimize Functional Performance
• Motor Learning and Skill Acquisition in the Restoration of Optimal Functional Performance
• New Approaches to the Delivery of Physiotherapy: Providing Opportunities for Practice
• References
• Chapter 3: Measurement
• Introduction
• Global Measures of Function
• Measures of Motor Performance
• Measures of Body Structure and Function (Impairments)
• Health-Related Quality of Life Scales
• Diagnosis-Specific Measures
• Environmental Analysis
• References
• Part 2: Task-related exercise and training
• Chapter 4: Standing up and sitting down
• Introduction
• Biomechanical Description
• Age-Related Changes
• Motor Dysfunction
• Task-Oriented Training
• Functional Strength Training
• Measurement
• References
• Chapter 5: Walking
• Introduction
• Biomechanical Description
• Age-Related Changes
• Motor Dysfunction
• Training Gait
• Maximizing Skill, Speed, Endurance and Fitness for Gait Competency
• Environmental Modification
• Measuring Treatment Effects and Retention
• Aids and Orthoses
• References
• Chapter 6: Reaching and manipulation
• Introduction
• Reaching to Grasp: Description of the Activity
• The Upper Limbs in Weightbearing
• Manipulation: Description of the Activity
• Recovery of Upper Limb Function
• Motor Dysfunction
• Training of REACHING AND MANIPULATION
• References
• Chapter 7: Balance
• Introduction
• Sensorimotor Interaction
• Biomechanical Description
• Age-Related Changes
• Impaired Postural Control and Functional Limitations
• Balance Training
• Summary
• References
• Part 3: Body function and structure, limitations in activities and participation
• Chapter 8: Upper motor neuron lesions
• Introduction
• Negative Features: Primary Impairments Following Central Lesions
• Positive Features: Newly Emerging Phenomena
• Adaptive Features: Secondary Physiological, Mechanical and Functional Changes in Muscle and Other So
• Clinical Intervention
• References
• Chapter 9: Cerebellar ataxia
• Introduction
• Functional Role of the Cerebellum
• Functional Regions of the Cerebellum
• Role of the Cerebellum in Adaptation and Motor Learning
• Aetiology
• Clinical Signs
• Clinical Assessment, Measurement and Evaluation
• Training
• References
• Chapter 10: Somatosensory and perceptual– cognitive impairments
• Introduction
• Somatosensory Impairment
• Visual Impairments
• Perceptual–Cognitive Impairments
• References
• Chapter 11: Stroke
• Introduction
• Acute Stroke
• Recovery after Stroke
• Problems in Body Structure and Function
• Rehabilitation
• Language, Cognitive and Affective Impairments
• Patient and Family Education
• The Role of the Family in Stroke Recovery
• Discharge Planning and Return to the Community
• References
• Appendix: The shoulder
• Glenohumeral Joint Subluxation
• Pain
• References
• Chapter 12: Traumatic brain injury
• Introduction
• Epidemiology
• Pathophysiology
• Management of acute traumatic brain injury
• Rehabilitation: an overall view
• References
• Chapter 13: Parkinson’s disease
• Introduction
• Pathophysiology
• Aetiology
• Motor Control and Motor Performance Deficits
• Non-Motor Deficits
• Medication and Surgical Intervention
• Physiotherapy Intervention
• References
• Chapter 14: Multiple sclerosis
• Epidemiology and Aetiology
• Pathophysiology
• The Disease Process
• Clinical Symptomatology
• Medical Management
• Physiotherapy: An Overall View
• References
• Index