Neurology

Neurology is a medical specialty dealing with disorders of the nervous system. Specifically, it deals with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of disease involving the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord), the peripheral nervous system, or the autonomic nervous system including their coverings, blood vessels, and all effectors tissue, such as muscle.

Physical therapy is extremely important for patients who have had or who currently have neurological diseases or injuries. The brain and spinal cord controls movement and sensation. Injuries to the brain or spinal cord can cause death of the cells that control certain movements and sensations, and therefore you lose function.

Following the injury there is a certain amount of time when the cells that are not injured in the brain and spinal cord, can learn to control the missing functions. Physical therapists are very knowledgeable about human movement and can teach patients how to move correctly again.

The common cases in Neurology requiring physiotherapy are:

Hemi paresis
GB Syndrome
Parkinsonism
Foot Drop
Bell’s palsy
Muscular Dystrophies
Peripheral Neuropathies
Motor Neuron Diseases
Multiple Sclerosis, etc.