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Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation in Neurological Conditions
Paper Code:
MPT NC 205
Credits:
12
Max. Marks:
100.00
Objective:
- To learn different physiotherapeutic strategies that can assist recovery of normal function from neurological dysfunction.
- To understand the conservative and surgical management of neurological condition as relevant to physiotherapy.
- To correlate the knowledge gained in understanding the neurological dysfunction.
Unit I:
Conditions / rehabilitation of the spinal cord & cauda equina
- Acute Traumatic injuries of the spinal cord
- Slow progressive compression of the spinal cord
- Syringomyelia
- Ischemia and infection of the Spinal Cord (Transverse myelitis) and Cauda Equina
- Tumors of Spinal Cord
- Surges surgical management in Spinal Cord
Unit II:
Degenerative Diseases of the Spinal cord and Cauda Equina
- Ataxia (sensory )
- Motor Neuron Disease
- Spinal Muscular Atrophy
- Spino-cerebellar Degeneration(Friedreich's Ataxia)
- Transverse Myelitis
Unit III:
Conditions of peripheral nerves
- Peripheral neuropathies and peripheral nerve lesions, Clinical diagnosis of peripheral neuropathy
- All types of levels of peripheral neuropathies and brachial plexus lesions
- Causalgia
- Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
- Traumatic, Compressive and Ischemic neuropathy
- Spinal Radiculitis and Radiculopathy
- Hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy
- Acute idiopathic polyneuritis
- Neuropathy due to infections
- Vasculomotor neuropathy
- Neuropathy due to Systemic Medical Conditions
- Drug induced neuropathy
- Metal poisoning, Chemical neuropathies
- Polyneuropathies:Acute,Subacute and Chronic level polyneuropathy
- Surgeries on peripheral Nerves
Unit IV:
Conditions of muscles
- Myasthenia gravis
- Muscular dystrophies of adulthood
- The Myotonic conditions
- Inflammatory conditions of muscle
- Endocrine and metabolic myopathies
- Duchene muscular dystrophy
- Progressive muscular dystrophy.
Unit V:
Conditions
- Deficiency & Nutritional Conditions, Deficiency of vitamins & related conditions, Other nutritional neuropathies
- Conditions of Autonomic nervous system:Bladder and Bowel dysfunction,, Orthostatic hypotension, Autonomic dysreflexia, Autonomic Neuropathy.
- Nervous system aging effects and Geriatric neurological conditions
References:
- Cash's textbook of neurology for physiotherapists - Downi - J.P.Brothers.
- Adult Hemiplegia - Evaluation & treatment - Bobath - Oxford Butterworth Heinmann.
- Neurological Rehabilitation - Carr & Shephered -Butter worth Heinmann.
- Neurological Rehabilitation - Umpherd - Mosby.
- Geriatric Physical Therapy - Gucciona - Mosby.
- Brunnstrom’s Movement Therapy in Hemiplegia- Sawner&La Vigne-Lippincott.
- Principles of Neurology - Victor - McGraw Hill lnternational edition.
- Davidson's Principles and practices of medicine - Edward – Churchill Livingstone.
- Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation-Susan Sullivan
- Neurological Rehabilitation-Illus
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