Full Description
Balance, Gait, and Falls, Volume 159 presents the latest information on sensorimotor anatomy, sensory integration, gravity and verticality, standing balance, balance perturbations, voluntary stepping and gait initiation, gait and gait adaptability, disorders of balance and gait that result from aging and neurological diseases. The book provides a brief overview of age-related changes in the structure and function of sensorimotor and central processes, with sections specifically devoted to Parkinson's disease, parkinsonism, cerebellar ataxia, stroke, corticobasal degeneration, multiple sclerosis, Huntington's disease, dystonia, tremor, Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia, cerebral palsy, polio, motor neuron disease, brainstem lesions, spinal lesions, peripheral nerve disease, and psychogenic conditions.
Diseases covered have a common structure comprising background and epidemiology, pathology, balance disorders, gait disorders, falls, therapies (including fall prevention), and future directions.
Contents
Section I. Basic Aspects
1. Sensorimotor anatomy of gait, balance and falls
2. Sensory integration for human balance control
3. Gravity estimation and verticality perception
4. Sensorimotor control of standing balance
5. Balance Perturbations
6. Voluntary steps and gait initiation
7. Gait
8. Gait adaptability
9. Ecology of Falls
Section II. Clinical Aspects
10. Ageing
11. Parkinson's disease
12. Falls in frontotemporal dementia and related syndromes
13. Stroke
14. Dystonia
15. Balance, gait and falls in multiple sclerosis
16. Gait, balance and falls in Huntington disease
17. Cerebellar ataxia
18. Tremor
19. Dementia
20. Cerebral palsy
21. Poliomyelitis
22. Motor neurone disease
23. Brainstem lesions and gait
24. Balance, gait and falls in spinal cord injury
25. Disorders of the inner ear balance organs and their pathways
26. Peripheral nerve disease
27. Functional (psychogenic) gait disorder: Diagnosis and management
