Book series: Clinics in Developmental Medicine

Fragile X Syndrome and Premutation Disorders

Fragile X syndrome results from a gene mutation on the X-chromosome, which leads to various intellectual and developmental disabilities. Fragile X Syndrome and Premutation Disorders offers clinicians and families a multidisciplinary approach in order to provide the best possible care for patients with Fragile X. Unique features of the book include what to do when an infant or toddler is first diagnosed, the impact on the family and an international perspective on how different cultures perceive the syndrome.

  • Presents up-to-date diagnostic and treatment approaches for Fragile X syndrome and other premutation disorders, including FXTAS, FXPOI and FXAND
  • Summary of new beneficial treatments from a molecular/neurobiological standpoint
  • Practical clinical strategies for managing both behavioural and medical aspects of the syndrome
  • Explores the unique effects of the disorder on women

Readership

This book will be of interest  to Paediatricians, Paediatric Neurologists, Allied Health Professionals and families.

From the Foreword

“This book is an essential addition to the existing literature, offering a wealth of information on all clinical and molecular aspects of the Fragile X syndrome mutation in one place.”

Professor Frank Kooy, University of Antwerp, Edegem, Belgium

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Handedness and Developmental Disorder

This book offers a comprehensive and readable account of theoretical aspects of the origins of normal development of handedness and its relationship to cerebral lateralization and intellectual function.

Later chapters review the evidence for links between non-right-handedness and various developmental disorders: mental impairment, autism, epilepsy, and disorders of spoken and written langauge.

The emphasis is on understanding the range of underlying mechanisms that might lead to associations between handedness and disorder, and on identifying assessment procedures that can distinguish between different explanations.

Clinics in Developmental Medicine No. 110

Hip Disorders in Childhood

There are many childhood disorders which affect the hip and its development, many of which can have lifelong sequelae.

This book brings together the authoritative opinions of a number of experienced clinicians about these disorders, discussing their aetiology, presentation, diagnosis, treatment and the range of outcomes.

There are chapters on the anatomy and embryology; physical examination; role of the hip in gait and gait analysis; and hip orthoses.

Readership

It is written for all those who manage the health of children, primarily for paediatricians, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, nurses and orthotists. Although the majority of authors are orthopaedic surgeons, it is not a book on surgery but on what every clinician should know about the developing hip joint.

Clinics in Developmental Medicine No. 160

Identification and Treatment of Gait Problems in Cerebral Palsy, 2nd Edition

The only book to deal specifically with the treatment of gait problems in cerebral palsy, this comprehensive, multi-disciplinary volume is invaluable for all those working in the field of cerebral palsy and gait.

The book is divided into two parts. The first is designed to help the reader evaluate and understand a child with cerebral palsy. It deals with neurological control, musculoskeletal growth, and normal gait, as well as cerebral injury, growth deformities and gait pathology in children with cerebral palsy. The second section is a comprehensive overview of management. It emphasizes the most fundamental concept of treatment: manage the child’s neurologic dysfunction first and then address the skeletal and muscular consequences of that dysfunction.

The book has been thoroughly updated since the previous edition, with a greater focus on treatment and several entirely new topics covered, including chapters on the operative treatment of orthopaedic deformities.

The book is accompanied by downloadable teaching videos on normal gait and motion analysis data of all case examples used in the book, as well as teaching videos demonstrating the specifics of many of the procedures used in the correction of gait deformities and gait modelling examples from the Department of Bioengineering at Stanford University.

Video files are now available with all book purchases as a free digital download – contact [email protected] for more information.

Readership

Neurologists, Therapists, Physiatrists, Orthopaedic and Neurosurgeons, and Bioengineers.

Clinics in Developmental Medicine No. 180-181

 

Supporting Videos

Videos from the book are FREE with every book purchase. Contact [email protected] for free access if you have purchased the book from another book seller.

The videos are on the following:

  • 14 Case Examples
  • Instructional Videos
  • Musculo-Skeletal Pathology in Cerebral Palsy
  • Non-Operative Treatment
  • Operative Treatment
  • Patient Assessment
  • Section 1.4: Normal Gait

(Note to Mac users: you may need to convert the AVI files in order to view them. Free converters are widely available for download, e.g. from iSkysoft.)

Improving Hand Function in Children with Cerebral Palsy

For most children with cerebral palsy, the extent to which they can use their hands is critical to their overall development.
Over the last two decades there have been major advances in the understanding of hand function. Particularly in children with cerebral palsy, assessment of hand function has become more exact and the range of possible interventions has expanded.
Changes in treatment approaches can be seen in neurorehabilitation, orthopaedic management, developmental paediatrics and rehabilitation including occupational and physical therapy practices.
In this book, selected experts from around the world in the fields of neuroimaging, neurology, orthopaedics, anatomy, motor control and motor learning provide fundamental theoretical information for the development of hand function in children with cerebral palsy.
The book also shows how theory can be translated into practice by clinicians who provide assessment and intervention services to improve hand use in this population in sections written by researchers in occupational and physical therapy.
Linking different fields of knowledge, this book highlights new perspectives and provides the best evidence for different types of intervention. By focusing only on hand function this essential book highlights new concepts for clinicians and others working towards the overall well-being of children with cerebral palsy.
Clinics in Developmental Medicine No. 178

Improving Quality of Life for Individuals with Cerebral Palsy through Treatment of Gait Impairment

How can the quality of life of those with cerebral palsy and associated gait impairment be improved? What needs to be done to ensure real progress in research? How can evidence for interventions be improved?

The Symposium brought together world-reknowned experts with a range of viewpoints to challenge each other and answer these questions, and prevent stagnation of outcomes. This publication unites these discussions to establish a framework to guide research efforts for the future and ensure meaningful progress. Authors consider how patient goals can be given more attention and ask how we can learn more details of the underlying neurological impairments.

  • Challenges long-held assumptions to explore the current state of research, testing, and treatment.
  • Topics are unified by common formats including bulleted key points and objectives, and specific research goals to make the results more rapidly accessible.

Readership

A useful resource for orthopaedic surgeons, physiatrists, physical therapists, kinesiologists, gait analysis experts, and other members of the interdisciplinary team involved in the identification and treatment of mobility impairments in children and young adults diagnosed with cerebral palsy.

Clinics in Developmental Medicine

Inflammatory and Autoimmune Disorders of the Nervous System in Children

Inflammatory disorders of the nervous system, although individually uncommon, collectively make up 10-20% of acute paediatric neurology presentations and many are potentially treatable. Research into them is lagging behind adult research, but better diagnosis and often simple treatments could lead to substantial clinical benefit and reduction in long-term disability.

This book provides a detailed and comprehensive summary of the childhood diseases that are, or are likely to be, caused by the immune system. The authors not only describe these disorders and their treatments comprehensively, helping paediatricians and paediatric neurologists to improve their understanding and recognition of the conditions, but also highlight recent and exciting developments that will be of considerable importance in the future.

  • Clinically relevant to the practising physician
  • Experts in their fields present up-to-date diagnostic and treatment approaches
  • Recent developments in basic science clearly presented

Readership

Paediatricians and paediatric neurologists. Also researchers into autoimmune neurological diseases, adult neurologists, rheumatologists and immunologists.

Clinics in Developmental Medicine No. 184-185

Language Development and Disorders

This book brings together theoretical, practical, and clinical knowledge from several disciplines that bear on language and communication in an accessible form.

Contributions from education, linguistics, psychology, pediatrics, psychiatry, neurology, neuropsychology, and speech therapy are included. They describe language development, suggest classifications for language pathology, outline the epidemiology of language difficulties, consider assessment and therapy, alternative communication systems and the impact of technology on communication aids.

The variety of perspectives that it provides will make it particularly useful to the range of specialists who are concerned with the development of communication skills and language disorders.

Clinics in Developmental Medicine No. 101-102

Life Quality Outcomes

Health care professionals need to understand their patients’ views of their condition and its effects on their health and well-being.

This book builds on the World Health Organization’s concepts of ‘health’, ‘functioning’ and ‘quality of life’ for young people with neurodisabilities: it emphasises the importance of engaging with patients in the identification of both treatment goals and their evaluation. Uniquely, it enables health care professionals to find critically reviewed outcomes-related information. The authors are leaders in their respective research fields and discuss theory, concepts, and evidence, and how these are applied in clinical settings and research applications.

  • Summaries of key facts enable decision making at various points of care
  • International team of experts presents up-to-date evidence-based approaches to better understand, to be able to measure and ideas to intervene to improve outcomes and decrease disability
  • Practical generic strategies to improve the care of young people with neurodevelopmental conditions
  • The non-categorical approach that the authors have taken provides opportunities for readers to find the big issues within the details
  • This book addresses relatively new and emerging concepts about the life experiences of young people growing up with neurological and developmental conditions that influence their life course.

Readership

  • Health care professionals working with children and youth with neurological and developmental conditions, wanting to expand their clinical or research horizons.
  • Frontline service providers, health services and social science researchers, clinical program managers and policy makers concerned with ensuring that their clinical or programmatic services are addressing contemporary issues as effectively as possible.
  • Students in the health professions and others in related fields (such as social work).

Clinics in Developmental Medicine

Disabled Children & Developing Countries

This book describes the situation of children with a range of disabilities living in developing countries. It evaluates currently available models of therapy, treatment and education, and how some of these have been applied where resources are scarce. Community-based solutions reached in developing countries, and the social and political context governing further progress, have implications in turn for professionals in developing countries. The book provides a critical basis of knowledge from which services for disabled children and their families may be planned appropriately. The international group of authors do not focus on any particular disability, nor on any one part of the world, but provide a broad coverage of issues concerning children and disability in developing countries.

Clinics in Developmental Medicine No. 136