Recovery After Stroke. Michael P. Barnes, Bruce H. Dobkin,
and Julien Bogousslavsky, (Eds.). 2005. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press, 656 pp., $170.00 (HB).
Recovery after Stroke is an edited book (656 pages), and its
contributors hale mostly from the United Kingdom and Western Europe. The
title might suggest a focus on rehabilitation and treatment, but the
contents extend well beyond, and include the neuroanatomic foundations of
stroke syndromes as well as their “natural” course of
recovery. The book is quite clearly intended for a general,
multidisciplinary audience. As such, it covers a wide variety of topics
such as spasticity/pain, imbalance and gait disorders, sleep
disorders, incontinence, dysphagia, and the theory and practice of
physical rehabilitation. More systemically, there are chapters addressing
the principals of vocational rehabilitation, community rehabilitation, and
sexual relationships after stroke.