Boost your skills in planning and managing physical rehabilitation! Neuroscience: Fundamentals for Rehabilitation, 5th Edition provides a practical guide to the nervous system and how it affects the practice of physical and occupational therapy. Case studies and first-person stories from people with neurologic disorders make it easier to apply your knowledge to the clinical setting. New to this edition is a new chapter on neuroanatomy imaging. Written by noted PT educator Laurie Lundy-Ekman, this book uses evidence-based research to help you understand neurologic disorders and treat clients who have physical limitations due to nervous system damage or disease.
- Logical, systems approach to neuroscience
makes it easier to master complex information and provides a framework for conducting a neurologic examination and evaluation.- A clinical perspective of neuroscience is provided through case studies, personal stories written by patients, and summaries of key features of neurologic disorders and the body systems they affect.
- Five sections - Overview of Neurology, Cellular Level Function, Development, Vertical Systems, and Regions - first show how neural cells operate, and then allow you to apply your knowledge of neuroscience.
- Emphasis on topics critical to physical rehabilitation includes coverage of abnormal muscle tone, chronic pain, and control of movement.
- Hundreds of color-coded illustrations show body structures and functions across systems.
- Clinical Notes case studies demonstrate how neuroscience knowledge may be applied to clinical situations.
- Pathology boxes provide a quick summary of the features of neurologic disorders commonly encountered in rehabilitation practice.
- New Atlas and Imaging
chapter includes that combines clinical illustrationMRI and CT images. with gross anatomy images will provide students and therapists with a background for understanding film studies of their patients.- NEW! Updated content reflects the most current research findings.
- NEW! Reader-friendly approach converts long, technical chapters into smaller, more accessible chapters.
- NEW! Reorganized chapters more clearly demonstrate the progression from the molecular and cellular view of neuroscience to body systems and then to regions of the body.
