Neurologic rehabilitation

Stroke is the most frequent neurological disease, in which the brain, following the closure or rupture of an artery, no longer receives blood (ischemia) or is flooded with extravasated blood from a ruptured artery (hemorrhage). There are therefore two types of stroke: ischemic (due to the closure of a cerebral artery) or haemorrhagic (due to the rupture of a cerebral artery).

Parkinson’s is a neurodegenerative disease, with a slow but progressive evolution, which mainly involves some functions such as the control of movements and balance. The disease is part of a group of pathologies defined as “Movement Disorders” and among these it is the most frequent.

They are a heterogeneous group of pathologies affecting the spinal cord, characterized by acute or subacute dysfunction of the following functions:

• motor (sublesional para or tetraplegia);
• sensitive (with a sensitive level!);
• neurovegetative: bladder dysfunction (retention or incontinence)
  and rectal, with or without impaired perineal sensation.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a progressive neurodegenerative disease of adulthood, determined by the loss of spinal, bulbar and cortical motor neurons, which leads to paralysis of voluntary muscles up to involving even the respiratory ones.

Multiple sclerosis (MS), or multiple sclerosis, is a chronic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system characterized by the presence of lesions (or plaques) containing different types of white blood cells that cause the loss of the protective shield of nerve cells (myelin) throughout the central nervous system.

Ataxia (from the Greek ataxiā = disorder) is a disorder consisting in the lack of muscle coordination which makes it difficult to perform voluntary movements.

By this word is meant the inflammatory affection of several nerves simultaneously. It can have, schematically, two large groups of causes: infections and intoxications.