A practical approach to movement disorders : diagnosis and medical and surgical management / Hubert H. Fernandez ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fernandez, Hubert H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Movement disorders--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Movement disorders.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Demos Medical Pub., c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book provides the busy clinician with a quick, symptom-based guide to the clinical presentation, diagnosis, work-up, and management of the most common types of movement disorders encountered in clinical practice, including Parkinson's disease, chorea, dystonia, myoclonus, and ataxia. Written in expanded outline format, with frequent diagnostic and therapeutic algorithms, tables, and scales, it is an essential guide for clinicians faced with patients with movement disorders. A Practical Approach to Movement Disorders is a welcome departure from the typical lengthy, disease-based hardbound

Contents:

Getting started : the phenomenology of movement disorders

Medical approach to movement disorders. The "dancing" patient ; The "jerky" patient ; The "shaky" patient ; The "shuffling" patient ; The "twisted" patient ; The "tic patient" ; The "unsteady" patient

Surgical approach to movement disorders. Key concepts for surgical therapy for Parkinson's disease and movement disorders

Nonpharmacologic approach to movement disorders. Speech and swallowing therapy ; Physical and occupational therapy ; Nutritional considerations.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-935281-88-7

OCLC:

827208117