Abstract: This chapter discusses human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection: living with a chronic illness. In this chapter, readers will understand how the involvement of various systems (immune, integumentary, musculoskeletal, cardiopulmonary,…
Abstract: This chapter focuses on the effect of drug therapy on patients receiving neurological rehabilitation. First, the chapter discusses what the body does to a drug (pharmacokinetics), followed by what…
Abstract: In learning to cope with the often chronic nature of their conditions, individuals with neurological disease, not unlike individuals with health conditions of other systems, learn to rely on…
Abstract: In this chapter, discussion of two different diseases reveals the varied effects of neuromuscular pathology on a person’s day-to-day function. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is an adult-onset degenerative disease…
Abstract: This chapter reviews the critical components of evaluation, examination, and intervention based on the physiology of the vestibular system and the connection to the peripheral and central nervous system….
Abstract: Spina bifida, a congenital spinal cord injury, is a complex disability that results from a failure of the caudal neural tube to fuse early in embryonic development. This congenital…
Abstract: This chapter will discuss disorders of the Basal Nuclei that are commonly encountered in physical therapy. Physical therapists must be well versed in evaluation and therapeutic interventions to address…
Abstract: The cerebellum is a highly unique brain structure, easily recognizable by its location on the dorsal brain stem and the distinct, dense folia, or foldings, of its cortex. For…
Abstract: This chapter on cerebral palsy (CP) provides a historical perspective of the diagnosis of CP dating back to the mid-1800s. The classification of CP and the general movement characteristics…
Abstract: The purpose of this chapter is twofold. The first purpose is to develop the concept that the entire nervous system forms a continuous tissue tract. This concept is central…
