...it is a useful, informative and up-to-date resource for clinical neurologists, physical therapists and movement scientists. -- Brain ...a useful work of reference. -- British Journal of Neurosurgery ...the most comprehensive account of how we manage the complex task of standing and walking...highly recommended. -- Age and Ageing This book aims to fill a gap in the neurological library. It certainly does so. -- Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine This textbook can be recommended to all physicians, physiotherapists and psychologists confronted with patients suffering from balance disorders. It ought to be in every library because it is rare to find so much precise, clear, comprehensive and useful information in only one book. -- Swiss Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry 20050504 It ought to be in every library because it is rare to find so much precise, clear, comprehensive and useful information in only one book. It enables clinicians to manage their patients more easily and more accurately. -- Schweizer Archiv fur Neurologie und Psychiatrie 15 20050309 The editors have successfully created an outstanding multidisciplinary resource for clinical consideration of disorders of balance, posture, and gait. This a must read for any otology, neurotology, or otolaryngology practice managing a significant number of patients with balance disorders. In addition, the text is an equally important resource for those specialities with whom we collaborate in the case of these patients, including neurology, physiatry, physical therapy, and geriatrics. -- Otology & Neurology Vol 26 no 2 20050503
Adolfo M. Bronstein is Professor of Neuro-Otology and Honorary Consultant Neurologist, Imperial College of Science and Technology, Charing Cross Hospital, London, UK Thomas Brandt is Professor, Department of Neurology, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany Marjorie H. Woollacott is Professor, Department of Exercise and Movement Science, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA John G. Nutt is Professor, Departments of Neurology and Physiology & Pharmacology, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, USA
Posture and equilibrium; adaptive human locomotion; development of balance and gait control; classification of balance and gait disorders; orthopaedic assessment of gait disorders; clinical neurological assessment of balance and gait disorders; neuro-otological assessment in the patient with balance and gait disorder; objective assessment of posture and gait; postural imbalance in peripheral and central vestibular disorders; cereballar gait and sensory ataxia; gait and balance in basal ganglia disorders; spastic movement disorders; cerebrovascular disease and hydrocephalus; psychiatric aspects of dizziness and imbalance; syncope falls and their mimics; rehabilitation of balance disorders in the patient with vestibular pathology; neurological rehabilitation of gait and balance disorders; psychosocial aspects of disorders affecting balance and gait; balance control in older adults; falls and gait disorders in the elderly - principles of rehabilitation; syncope related falls in the older person.