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Rehabilitation of Ataxia

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Rehabilitation in patients with ataxia involves a thorough assessment to establish the current level of functioning and to set up treatment goals and strategies. Besides motor coordination and balance training, other goals in rehabilitation therapy in patients with ataxia include increased transfer and locomotion independence, muscle strengthening, increased physical resilience, “safe fall” strategy, learning to use mobility aids (e.g., a walker), monitoring posture while sitting and standing, preventing and minimizing deformities and pain in patients confined to a bed and/or wheelchair, and learning muscle relaxation exercises. This chapter provides a review of rehabilitation therapy in patients with ataxia.

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  1. Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil

    Marise Bueno Zonta P.T., Ph.D. & Hélio A. G. Teive M.D., Ph.D.

  2. Department of Neurology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

    Giovana Diaferia S.L.P., M.Sc. & José Luiz Pedroso M.D., Ph.D.

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Zonta, M.B., Diaferia, G., Pedroso, J.L., Teive, H.A.G. (2017). Rehabilitation of Ataxia. In: Chien, H., Barsottini, O. (eds) Movement Disorders Rehabilitation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46062-8_5

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