{"product_id":"9783540607205","title":"Steps to Follow: The Comprehensive Treatment of Patients with Hemiplegia","description":"\u003ch1\u003eSteps to Follow: The Comprehensive Treatment of Patients with Hemiplegia\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eDavies, Patricia M.; Kesselring, J.; Brühwiller, D.J.; Gierig, R.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eA true paradigm shift is taking place in the field of neurology. 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: \"Once development is complete, the sources of growth and regeneration ofaxons and dendrites are irretrievably lost. In the adult brain the nerve paths are fixed and immutable - everything can die, but nothing can be regenerated\" (Cajal1928). Even then this could have been countered with what holds today: rehabilitation does not take place in the test tube, being supported only a short time later by an authoritative source, the professor of neurology and neurosurgery in Breslau, Otfried Foerster. He wrote a 100-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 areclose to our views today (Foerster 1936): \"There is no doubt that most motor disturbances caused by lesions of the nervous system are more or less completely compensated as a re­ sult of a tendency inherent to the organism to carry out as expedient­ ly as possible the tasks of which it is capable under normal circum­ stances, using all the forces still available to it with the remaining un­ damaged parts of the nervous system, even following injury to its sub­\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2000-05-08\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783540607205\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-642-57022-3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 514\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Berlin Heidelberg","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44358581944460,"sku":"9783540607205","price":89.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783540607205.jpg?v=1773280209","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783540607205","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}