18 SPEECH AND SWALLOWING THERAPY SPEECH AND SWALLOWING ABNORMALITIES ASSOCIATED WITH MOVEMENT DISORDERS Speech and swallowing abnormalities occur frequently in patients with movement disorders. The evaluation and treatment of motor…
4 PARKINSON’S DISEASE OVERVIEW OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE James Parkinson wrote and published “An Essay on the Shaking Palsy” in 1817.1 However, in India, paralysis agitans was described under the name…
19 NUTRITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS Good nutrition is essential to maintain the well-being of individuals with neurological disease. There are several reasons why nutrition is important in movement disorders: Nutrition may impact…
3 PARKINSONISM The cardinal tetrad of parkinsonism includes tremor, rigidity, akinesia/bradykinesia, and postural instability.1 The most common cause of parkinsonism is Parkinson’s disease (PD), which is discussed in Chapters 2…
16 SURGICAL APPROACH TO MOVEMENT DISORDERS HISTORY OF SURGERY FOR MOVEMENT DISORDERS In the 1950s, Cooper first described ligation of the anterior choroidal artery for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease…
10 SLEEP-RELATED MOVEMENT DISORDERS Although most movement disorders typically disappear during sleep, some persist, and some even occur almost exclusively while the patient is asleep or falling asleep. Movement disorders…
12 PSYCHIATRIC ISSUES IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE INTRODUCTION Psychiatric complications associated with Parkinson’s disease (PD) are common. They represent a special challenge to the practitioner because many of the psychiatric syndromes…
17 PHYSICAL AND OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY Patients with movement disorders can develop motor, cognitive, and behavioral impairments that can lead to a loss of functional ability and independence in activities of…
