RESTORATIVE NEUROLOGY

Recent medical progress has overcome many, sometime fatal, complications of acute and chronic neurological disorders, in the process resulting in a large population of patients who survive spinal cord and head injuries, strokes, or advanced forms or paralysis due to cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, and other motor disorders of the central nervous system. Some of these patients can benefit from comprehensive rehabilitation programs and lead independent and often productive lives. Others live confined and dependent lives in special care facilities or their homes. They are indeed the ‘veterans of contemporary medicine'. Restorative neurology is defined as the branch of neurological sciences which applies active procedures to improve functions of the impaired nervous system through selective structural or functional modification of abnormal neurocontrol according to underlying mechanisms and clinically unrecognized residual functions.

Primary location: Patterson United States