Clinical medicine and anthropology in the rehabilitation of the severely disabled population
Journal title CHILD DEVELOPMENT & DISABILITIES - SAGGI
Author/s Gianfranco Megna
Publishing Year 2012 Issue 2010/3 Language Italian
Pages 4 P. 17-20 File size 48 KB
DOI 10.3280/CDD2010-003003
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Recovering from motor and communication deficits requires an extensive knowledge of the compensation mechanisms and vicariance existing in the central nervous system. Such mechanisms involve the possible reorganization of the gnosis, praxic and phasic functions compromised or abolished by brain damage, through shifting processes of the function to perilesional area or re-connection processes of dedicated circuits that the injury itself put in a state of functional isolation. A form of rehabilitation therapy is represented by CIMT (Constraint Induced Movement Therapy): besides the technical intervention it is, however, necessary a support of the legislation that guarantees the disabled accessibility to public spaces.
Keywords: Multiple disabilities, superior nervous functions, Constraint Induced Movement Therapy
Gianfranco Megna, Clinica e antropologia nella riabilitazione del disabile grave in "CHILD DEVELOPMENT & DISABILITIES - SAGGI" 3/2010, pp 17-20, DOI: 10.3280/CDD2010-003003