Neurophysiology and Rehabilitation Medicine

Neurophysiology of vestibular rehabilitation.

The vestibular system is a sophisticated human control system. Accurate processing of sensory input about rapid head and postural motion is critical. Not surprisingly, the body uses multiple, partially redundant sensory inputs and motor outputs, combined with a very competent central repair capability. The system as a whole can adapt to substantial peripheral vestibular dysfunction. The Achille...

Of rehabilitation medicine and the rehabilitation physician.

Rehabilitation Medicine or Physiatry (as is known in North America) is the medical specialty dealing with “restoration of function in people affected by physical disabilities”. The disease categories with which the specialty is mainly concerned are neurological conditions like stroke and brain injury, spinal injury, musculoskeletal disorders and limb amputation. The rehabilitation paradigm diff...

Physical medicine and rehabilitation.

An important priority has been the development of quantitative methods for measuring the disability status of patients undergoing rehabilitation. Intramuscular injection of botulinum toxin is an effective new therapy for spasticity due to a number of causes.

of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Research in Rehabilitation Medicine

Research in rehabilitation medicine has been discussed on a number of occasions and in different journals during recent years. Worries about the situation of academic medicine in our discipline have been raised, but there have also been constructive suggestions. In his Walter J. Zeiter Lecture, DeLisa (1) points out that stronger research must be developed and also that basic science as well as...