Gait Disorders
Subtitle: Evaluation and Management
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Hoboken
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 435
ISBN-13: 9780849354793
Subjects: Gait disorders in old age
Description: With chapters by many of the foremost international authorities on aging, neurology, physical therapy, and rehabilitation, this reference provides an up-to-date review of approaches to gait disorders and falls. This volume presents the fundamental concepts of gait and describes the changes in mobility with aging and disease. A focus is placed on recent assessment and intervention practices for common gait disorders, especially those seen in older adults, including sections on neuro-psychological influences, fear of falling and exercise, and strategies for specific disease groups, such as patie.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Front cover; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Contributors; 1 Gait, Mobility, and Function: A Review and Proposed Classification Scheme; 2 Clinical Evaluation of Gait Disorders: No-Tech and Low-Tech; 3 Laboratory-Based Evaluation of Gait Disorders: High-Tech; 4 Age-Associated Changes in the Biomechanics of Gait and Gait-Related Falls in Older Adults; 5 Neuromuscular and Biomechanical Elements of Postural Equilibrium; 6 Neuropsychological Influences on Gait in the Elderly; 7 Gait Assessments and Interventions: A Glimpse into the Future; 8 Common Gait Disturbances: A Clinical Overview.; title: 9 Fall Risk Assessment: Step-by-Step10 Best Clinical Practice Models to Reduce Falls; 11 Fear of Falling; 12 Therapeutic Exercise to Improve Balance and Gait and Prevent Falls; 13 Clinical Gait Analysis in Neurology; 14 Treatment of Parkinsonian Gait Disturbances; 15 Treatment of Axial Mobility Deficits in Movement Disorders; 16 Systems Approach to Gait Rehabilitation Following Stroke; 17 Optimizing Gait in Peripheral Ne.