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Violations are liable for prosecution under the German Copyright Law. Earlier it was regarded as the science of exact diagnosis of incurable illnesses, re- signed to the dogma that damage to the central nervous system could not be repaired: In the adult brain the nerve paths are fixed and immutable - everything can die, but nothing can be regenerated" Cajal Even then this could have been countered with what holds today: He wrote a page article about thera- peutic exercises which appeared in the Handbuch der Neurologie also published by Springer-Verlag.
The following sentences from his intro- duction illustrate his opinion of the importance of therapeutic exercises and are close to our views today Foerster This happens spontaneously, when neither a reversal of the da- mage nor a regeneration of the destroyed tissue is possible, simply by means of a reorganisation of the remaining parts of the nervous sys- tem, which is not a machine composed of individual parts that stands still when one part fails; rather, it possesses an admirable plasticity and exhibits an astonishingly extensive adaptability, not only to changed external conditions but also to disruptions of its own sub- stance.
Patricia M Davies Publisher: In the adult brain the nerve paths are fixed and immutable - everything can die, but nothing can be regenerated" Cajal Davies, Steps to Follow, 2. Darcy Ann Umphred PT. The American attitude of health care professionals, with regards to severely brain damaged people, in my experience, has been quick to write them off.
Therapeutic exercises influence the course of spontaneous re- storation; they support it, strengthen it. Not infrequently, in fact, they actually set it in motion when the forces essential to restoration lie fallow and are not deployed by the organism. Research into cells and their connections as well as into neurotransmitter systems, the description of functional changes by means of imaging procedures Frackowiak et a1.
Translated to the level of the physiology of the organism as a whole, and of psychology, this can be understood as the basis of learning. Whereas a previous main objective of neurology was to describe the deficits and their pathogenesis as precisely as possible according to the lesions, interest today has shifted more to identifying the potential still available and promoting it through a learning process. When this pioneering work by Pat Davies, which was to become one of Springer-Verlag's most successful titles, first appeared in , the field of neurorehabilitation was regarded as a marginal discipline.
Neu- rologists who wished to follow her methods, were disregarded by their academic colleagues with a contemptuous smile, or at most were thought to be moving in a direction which could only lead to a dead end. Create lists, bibliographies and reviews: Search WorldCat Find items in libraries near you. Advanced Search Find a Library.
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The Comprehensive Treatment of Patients with Hemiplegia In the 15 years since publication of the first edition, Steps to Follow has gained a worldwide. Steps to Follow: The Comprehensive Treatment of Patients with Hemiplegia: Medicine & Health Science Books @ bahana-line.com
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