{"product_id":"davies-m-patricia-steps-to-follow-9783540607205","title":"Steps to Follow","description":"A true paradigm shift is taking place in the field of neurology. Earlier it was regarded as the science of exact diagnosis of incurable illnesses, re­ signed to the dogma that damage to the central nervous system could not be repaired: \"Once development is complete, the sources of growth and regeneration ofaxons and dendrites are irretrievably lost. In the adult brain the nerve paths are fixed and immutable - everything can die, but nothing can be regenerated\" (Cajal1928). Even then this could have been countered with what holds today: rehabilitation does not take place in the test tube, being supported only a short time later by an authoritative source, the professor of neurology and neurosurgery in Breslau, Otfried Foerster. He wrote a 100-page article about thera­ peutic exercises which appeared in the Handbuch der Neurologie (also published by Springer-Verlag). The following sentences from his intro­ duction illustrate his opinion of the importance of therapeutic exercises and areclose to our views today (Foerster 1936): \"There is no doubt that most motor disturbances caused by lesions of the nervous system are more or less completely compensated as a re­ sult of a tendency inherent to the organism to carry out as expedient­ ly as possible the tasks of which it is capable under normal circum­ stances, using all the forces still available to it with the remaining un­ damaged parts of the nervous system, even following injury to its sub­","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Used - good","offer_id":53385594863958,"sku":"9783540607205-G","price":7.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9783540607205_1_defc479f-6e48-42a8-9ce1-774bcc857e0d.jpg?v=1778043210","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/davies-m-patricia-steps-to-follow-9783540607205","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}