Includes bibliographical references and index.

The adaptive system : plasticity and recovery -- Training motor control, increasing strength and fitness, and promoting skill -- Acquisition -- Measurement -- Standing up and sitting down -- Walking -- Reaching and manipulation -- Balance -- Upper motor neuron lesions -- Cerebellar ataxia / written with Phu Hoang -- Somatosensory and perceptual-cognitive impairments -- Stroke / written with Julie Bernhardt -- Traumatic brain injury / written with Anne Moseley and Leanne Hassett -- Parkinson's disease / written with Colleen Canning -- Multiple sclerosis / written with Phu Hoang.

Janet Carr and Roberta Shepherd head up a new team of eminent authors for the second edition of this definitive text on neurological physiotherapy. In the first edition, the authors described a model of neurological rehabilitation for individuals with motor dysfunction based on scientific research in the areas of neuromuscular control, biomechanics, motor skill learning, and the link between cognition and action, together with developments in pathology and adaptation. The new edition continues to advance this model while identifying and incorporating the many advances that have occurred in the last decade in the understanding and treatment of adults with neurological conditions, whether caused by accident or disease. The training guidelines outlined are based on biomechanical constructs and motor relearning research, applied to enhance brain reorganization and muscle contractility, and encourage functional recovery of the patient. It connects science and clinical practice enabling students and practitioners to develop their knowledge and use new clinical methods based on modern scientific understanding