By Losseff
Nick Losseff and his workforce of individuals give you the reader, no matter if advisor, trainee neurologist, or neurological rehabilitation nurse, with interdisciplinary views on tips on how to rehabilitate sufferers. Highlighting the specific talents required for the powerful rehabilitation of stroke sufferers, they take the reader from bedside to rehabilitation heart to the patient's domestic. Emphasis is put on the necessity for multidisciplinary technique between all employees and the sufferer and the way to judge the results. Neurological Rehabilitation of Stroke bargains a simplified, multidisciplinary method of the potent rehabilitation of stroke sufferers.
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Within the National Clinical Guidelines for Stroke (Royal College of Physicians, 2002) and the National Service Framework for Older People (Department of Health, 2001), the importance of nutrition and the dietician as an integral part of the stroke team has been clearly recognized. Nutrition intervention at all stages of stroke care can reduce complications, length of stay, morbidity and mortality and improve a patient’s quality of life (Finestone et al, 1995). 38 NEUROLOGICAL REHABILITATION OF STROKE It is well documented that malnutrition is a common occurrence in hospital patients.
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Goals should be written with a positive focus on function and activity rather than impairment and should be written in a way that the patient can understand. For example ‘Paul will feed himself independently using a spoon in his right hand’ as opposed to ‘Paul will have increased range of movement and strength in his right arm’. It is important to have a system in place for specifying and regularly reviewing the goals for each patient. Action plans relating to a patient’s care can also be set before goals related to functional tasks.
