| Nerve Injury and Repair: Regeneration, Reconstruction, and Cortical Remodeling | Hardcoverby Goran Lundborg (Author)
| List Price: | $120.00 | |
| | Binding: | Hardcover | | Publisher: | Churchill Livingstone | | Edition: | 2nd Edition | | Page Count: | 256 Pages | | Publication Date: | April 05, 2005 | | Sales Rank: | 2,285,677nd |
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Product Description
This volume represents the second edition of the classic Nerve Injury and Repair which was first published in 1988. The focus is on nerve repair and reconstruction today and tomorrow with emphasis on biological mechanisms, clinical treatment and functional remodelling in brain cortex as a consequence of nerve injury. The volume is extremely well illustrated with numerous original schematic drawings illustrating complex mechanisms in a very easy way. Special sections are devoted to hand sensation, sensory re-education and sensory re-learning after nerve injury and repair with emphasis on evolving concepts of brain plasticity mechanisms. The book addresses primarily surgeons in the fields of hand-, plastic-, orthopaedic- and neurosurgery, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and physicians working in the field of hand rehabilitation and neurologists and neuroscientists. The book has a substantial value also for students due to the many drawings and its comprehensive formatAddresses several categories including surgeons, occupational and physiotherapists, neurologists, neuroscientists and studentsEmphasis on the illustration part with a large number of original drawings by special artist. Numerous color plates.The whole panorama of nerve injury and repair is covered in one volumeBiological mechanisms reviewed together with the clinical approach to nerve injuries, hereby providing a rational for clinical handling.The author is well known and has a world reputation in the field. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 1 review)
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Nerve Injury and repair: Regeneration, reconstruction and cortical remodeling by Nelson Leite (Sao Paulo, SP BRAZIL)  5 Stars
March 28, 2007
I read this book in a few days. It is a soft style of writing with a very good review of recent literature. Those chapters focusing brain plasticity are amazing. This book is excellent to all who are involved with treatment of nerve injuries.
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