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A Patient's Perspective on Spastic Tetraparesis Diagnosis

Specially Abled

Bianca Wiersema, Dragoș Sardaru (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

194 Seiten

2023 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-5306-4 (ISBN)

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There are books that discuss all types of cerebral palsy and provide guidelines for families of those who have it, but they do not describe specifically the spastic tetraparesis diagnosis. They address the plegia type of diagnosis and not the paresis one, yet these are two different conditions. They are mostly written from a doctor’s or physiotherapist’s point of view, and not by the patients themselves.This book is different, as it is written by someone with personal experience of receiving this diagnosis.It gives an overview of how the diagnosis of spastic tetraparesis affects the body at each level (face, hands, abdomen, lower limbs), as well as the challenges the diagnosed person faces in daily life, and ways to overcome these challenges (tools to make dressing easier, different walking aids along with their drawbacks and benefits, ways to be independent in carrying out activities, among others). It also explores the relationship between disability and sexuality.

Bianca Wiersema has been a clinical psychologist since 2020. She holds a BSc in psychology and an MSc in clinical neuropsychology from Leiden University, the Netherlands. She is a member of the Romanian Psychologists’ College, the National Academy of Neuropsychology (Colorado, USA), the Queer Neuropsychological Society, and the National Research Mentoring Network (USA). Her expertise lies in clinical neuropsychological assessment, people with a variety of neurological disorders, and people who belong to the LGBTIQA+ community.Dr Dragoș Sardaru is a physiokinetotherapist at Arcadia Medical Center, Romania. He is also Head of Works and Lecturer at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Grigore T. Popa”, Iasi, Romania. He is specialized in proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation, fascia integration therapy, shiatsu, and orthopedic manual physiotherapy. He is also part of the National Council of the College of Physiotherapists of Romania.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.01.2024
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Neurologie
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie ► Ergotherapie
ISBN-10	1-5275-5306-X / 152755306X
ISBN-13	978-1-5275-5306-4 / 9781527553064
Zustand	Neuware