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The book is devoted to the neurosurgical management of spasticity. Starting with a chapter on the anatomical and physiological foundations of spasticity and a short history of its neurosurgical treatment, it describes the neurosurgical methods currently available. As management differs between adults and children, the book is also structured accordingly, including evaluation, decision-making, Intrathecal Baclofen Therapy (ITB), botulinum toxin therapy, and surgery. Beyond ITB, the neurosurgical options covered include procedures focusing on the peripheral nerves, dorsal roots, Dorsal Root Entry Zone and spinal cord. Based on surgical experience collected with more than a thousand patients, the book gathers the most important aspects of our present understanding, presented using a practical, educational approach. It stresses the importance of a multidisciplinary approach, including neurologists, pediatricians and rehabilitation specialists. Close collaboration with other surgical disciplines like orthopedic surgery and neuro-urology are also outlined.

Spasticity --- Nervous system --- Surgery. --- Nerves --- Neurosurgery --- Muscle spasticity --- Movement disorders --- Muscles --- Reflexes --- Spasms --- Surgery --- Diseases --- Neurosurgery. --- Neurology. --- Medicine --- Neuropsychiatry --- Neurology .

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This book is the result of studies on cerebral palsy (CP) in children that the authors and their collaborators (medical doctors and therapists) have carried out in recent years. It addresses the main topics associated with the evaluation of adaptive functions in the spastic forms of CP (definition and modifications over the most recent decades, newly classified orientations, etiopathogenesis, anatomic–functional correlations, semiotics, and the so-called associated disorders: visual, cognitive, and behavioral). The main goal of this book is to offer readily accessible information on the nature of the disease, the problems correlated with prognosis, and the rehabilitation. Because of its instructive nature and practical approach, the book will be an invaluable tool for practitioners already working in this field (medical doctors, child neuropsychiatrists and physiatrists, and rehabilitation therapists), for university students studying physical and occupational therapy, and for residents in rehabilitative medicine, child neurology, and orthopedics.

Cerebral palsied children -- Rehabilitation. --- Cerebral Palsy -- Child. --- Cerebral palsy -- Complications. --- Cerebral palsy -- Physical therapy. --- Cerebral palsy -- Rehabilitation. --- Spasticity. --- Cerebral palsy --- Cerebral palsied children --- Spasticity --- Cerebral Palsy --- Child --- Muscle Spasticity --- Muscular Diseases --- Muscle Hypertonia --- Brain Damage, Chronic --- Age Groups --- Persons --- Musculoskeletal Diseases --- Neuromuscular Manifestations --- Brain Diseases --- Diseases --- Neurologic Manifestations --- Central Nervous System Diseases --- Named Groups --- Nervous System Diseases --- Signs and Symptoms --- Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms --- Pediatrics --- Occupational Therapy & Rehabilitation --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Rehabilitation --- Physical therapy --- Complications --- Rehabilitation. --- Complications. --- Physical therapy. --- Muscle spasticity --- Cerebral paralysis --- Little's disease --- Paralysis, Cerebral --- Medicine. --- Neurology. --- Orthopedics. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Movement disorders --- Muscles --- Reflexes --- Spasms --- Brain damage --- Extrapyramidal disorders --- Developmental disabilities --- Paralysis, Spastic --- Nervous system --- Neuropsychiatry --- Orthopaedics --- Orthopedia --- Surgery --- Neurology . --- Children with cerebral palsy