Background to neuro-rehabilitation

Abstract

Part 1 Introduction1 Evidence-based medicine: its contributions in the way we search, appraise and apply scientific information to patient care 2 What to do when there is no evidence 3 Outcome and adverse effect measures in neurology 4 Systematic reviews of diagnostic researchPart 2 Neurological symptoms/problems5 Acute migraine attacks 6 Back and neck pain 7 Neuropathic pain 8 Vertigo and dizziness: treatment of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, vestibular neuritis and Menière's disease 9 Sleep disorders 10 Cognitive rehabilitation of non-progressive neuropsychological disorders 11 Management and pharmaceutical treatment of central and spinal spasticity 12 Background to neurorehabilitationPart 3 Neurological diseases13 Acute stroke management and prevention of recurrences 14 Aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage 15 Acute traumatic brain injury 16 Corticosteroids in central nervous system infections 17 Brain tumours 18 Epilepsy 19 Dementia treatment: let the evidence lead us 20 Parkinson's disease 21 Multiple sclerosis: critical review of the evidence for each question 22 Motor neurone disorders 23 Peripheral nerve disorders 24 Muscle disordersInde