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Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 2003;74:iv3
© 2003 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd

PRINCIPLES OF NEUROLOGICAL REHABILITATION

M P Barnes

Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Professor M P Barnes
Hunters Moor Regional Rehabilitation Centre, Hunters Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE2 4NR, UK; m.p.barnes@btinternet.com

Keywords: neurological rehabilitation

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This article reviews the basic principles that underlie the subspeciality of neurological rehabilitation. Neurological rehabilitation is in many ways different from the other branches of neurology. Rehabilitation is a process of education of the disabled person with the ultimate aim of assisting that individual to cope with family, friends, work, and leisure as independently as possible. It is a process that centrally involves the disabled person in making plans and setting goals that are important and relevant to their own particular circumstances. In other words it is a process that is not done to the disabled person but a process that is done by the disabled person themselves, but with the guidance, support, and help of a wide range of professionals. Rehabilitation has to go beyond the rather narrow confines of physical disease and needs to deal with the psychological consequences of disability as well as the social milieu in . . . [Full text of this article]


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