Living Well with Dystonia - Daniel Truong, Mayank Pathak, Karen Frei

Living Well with Dystonia

A Patient Guide
Buch | Softcover
164 Seiten
2010
Demos Medical Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-932603-23-1 (ISBN)
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Dystonia is a movement disorder that causes the muscles to contract and spasm involuntarily. This book provides comprehensive information on cervical dystonia, spasmodic dysphonia, and focal dystonia. It offers an overview of diagnosis and treatment, medical advice, rehabilitation exercises that help alleviate symptoms, and patient resources.
Living Well with Dystonia: A Patient Guide provides comprehensive information on a wide array of Dystonias. It is intended for individuals with various forms of Dystonia who want to adjust lifestyle activities to accommodate this chronic condition, but do not want the disorder to define them. It is a resource and tool for both individuals with the disorder and their families to become better educated about the options available to them.

Living Well with Dystonia covers:

What is Dystonia?
Diagnosis
Treatment
Rehabilitation Exercises
Personal Vignettes
Resources

is a neurologist and movement disorders specialist. He is currently director of the Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorder Institute in Long Beach, CA. He has conducted active research in the management of movement disorders, including spasmodic torticollus and other forms of dystonia. He is a pioneer in the use of botulinum toxin to manage this condition, and has lectured worldwide on the management of movement disorders.||is a neurologist with a special interest in the neurologic rehabilitation of movement disorders and a speaker for the National Spasmodic Torticollis Association.|is a neurologist specialized in the field of neurogenetics, and has conducted clinical trials on a number of movement disorders, including spasmodic torticollis

1 Introduction
2 Overview of Dystonias
3 Genetics of Dystonias
4 Causes of Dystonias
5 Blepharospasm and Meige Syndrome
6 Spasmodic Dysphonia
7 Writer's Cramp and Occupational Dystonias
8 Paroxysmal Dystonias
9 Generalized Dystonias
10 Pharmacologic Treatment
11 Chemodenervation/Botulinum Toxin
12 Deep Brain Stimulation
13 Cervical Dystonia or Spasmodic Torticollis
14 Coping
15 Rehabilitation Exercises

Erscheint lt. Verlag 30.3.2010
Verlagsort New York, NY
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie Krankheiten / Heilverfahren
ISBN-10 1-932603-23-9 / 1932603239
ISBN-13 978-1-932603-23-1 / 9781932603231
Zustand Neuware
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