Beschreibung:
This book provides the busy clinician with a quick, symptom-based guide to the clinical presentation, diagnosis, work-up, and management of the most common types of movement disorders encountered in clinical practice, including Parkinson's disease, chorea, dystonia, myoclonus, and ataxia. Written in expanded outline format, with frequent diagnostic and therapeutic algorithms, tables, and scales, it is an essential guide for clinicians faced with patients with movement disorders.
Preface; Getting Started: Phenomenology of Movement Disorders; Medical Approach to Movement Disorders; The Dancing Patient; The Jerky Patient; The Shaky Patient; The Shuffling Patient; The Twisted Patient; The Tic Patient; The Unsteady Patient; Surgical Approach to Movement Disorders; Key Concepts for Surgical Therapy for Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders; Non-Pharmacologic Approach to Movement Disorders; Speech and Swallowing Therapy; Physical and Occupational Therapy; Nutritional Considerations; Index.