{"product_id":"steps-to-follow-patricia-m-davies-9783540607205","title":"Steps to Follow: The Comprehensive Treatment of Patients with Hemiplegia","description":"A true paradigm shift is taking place in the field of neurology. Earlier it was regarded as the science of exact diagnosis of incurable illnesses, re- signed to the dogma that damage to the central nervous system could not be repaired: \"Once development is complete, the sources of growth and regeneration ofaxons and dendrites are irretrievably lost. In the adult brain the nerve paths are fixed and immutable - everything can die, but nothing can be regenerated\" (Cajal1928). Even then this could have been countered with what holds today: rehabilitation does not take place in the test tube, being supported only a short time later by an authoritative source, the professor of neurology and neurosurgery in Breslau, Otfried Foerster. He wrote a 100-page article about thera- peutic exercises which appeared in the Handbuch der Neurologie (also published by Springer-Verlag). The following sentences from his intro- duction illustrate his opinion of the importance of therapeutic exercises and areclose to our views today (Foerster 1936): \"There is no doubt that most motor disturbances caused by lesions of the nervous system are more or less completely compensated as a re- sult of a tendency inherent to the organism to carry out as expedient- ly as possible the tasks of which it is capable under normal circum- stances, using all the forces still available to it with the remaining un- damaged parts of the nervous system, even following injury to its sub-\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Patricia M. Davies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 354060720X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783540607205\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Springer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/08\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 514\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.40d","brand":"Patricia M. Davies","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44756800372991,"sku":"9783540607205","price":99.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7a3fa52e-1bad-4359-87c2-dc1a8de14552.jpg?v=1706593870","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/steps-to-follow-patricia-m-davies-9783540607205","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}