Management of Patients with Neuromuscular Disease

Section 1: General Evaluation and Management Concerns 1. Disease
Assessment and Evolution 2. Medical Therapies and Research 3.
Nutrition 4. Swallowing and Gastrointestinal Concerns 5. Cardiac
Management Section 2: The Physical Intervention Stages 6. Stage
1: The Ambulatory Stage 7. Stage 2: Stage of Loss of Ambulation
8. Conventional "End-Stage" Management Section 3: The Stage of
Prolonged Quality Survival 9. The Physiological Basis of Aiding
Respiratory Muscles 10. Noninvasive Respiratory Muscle Aids,
Intervention Goals, and Mechanisms of Action 11. Respiratory
Muscle Aids: Patient Evaluation, Respiratory Aid Protocol, and
Outcomes 12. Pediatrics Respiratory Management 13. Quality of
Life and Ethical Issues



Author Information
By John R. Bach, MD, Professor of Physical Medicine &
Rehabilitation, Vice Chairman, Department of Physical Medicine &
Rehabilitation, Professor of Neuroscience, Codirector, Jerry
Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Association Clinic, UMDNJ--The New
Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey