Minor Head Trauma - Assessment, Management, and Rehabilitation

Minor Head Trauma describes and explains techniques for diagnosing, evaluating, and rehabilitating patients with minor head injuries. This book emphasizes the importance of long-term treatment of patients beyond the initial moments of injury and treatment in the emergency room. Minor Head Trauma offers insight on: - a range of related issues from emergency room management to psychiatric evaluation and rehabilitation; - the role of electrophysiological testing in patients - including BEAM techniques; - the subtleties of neurophysiological diagnosis; - neurotoxicological evaluation and treatment; - diagnosis and treatment of temporomandibular joint disorders; - the nature and pathogenesis of visual sequelae of head injury; - the speech-language pathologist's role in treating minor head injuries; - the complexities of rehabilitation including problems faced when the patient resumes normal community, professional and familial activities. Minor Head Trauma is intended for physicians, psychologists, physical therapists, speech-language pathologists, nurses, attorneys, and others faced with the challenges of evaluating and treating patients who have sustained minor head trauma.

Product details

• Assisted by: Steven Mandel (Editor), Sarita R Schapiro (Editor), Robert T. Sataloff (Editor), Sarita R. Schapiro (Editor), Rober T Sataloff (Editor), Robert T Sataloff (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.07.2012
• EAN: 9781461287483
• ISBN: 978-1-4612-8748-3
• No. of pages: 348
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 19 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 558 g
• Illustrations: XVI, 348 p.
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine