Rehabilitation of the Patient With Multiple Sclerosis

Abstract

achieved outstanding success in the professions and in other fields. The degree of chronic handicap is not neces¬ sarily correlated with the adjustment of the person. SUMMARYThe specialty of physical medicine and rehabilitation has shown important developments. Its recognition by the medical profession, its extension to and greater in¬ fluence in the medical schools, its expansion of services in hospitals and in rehabilitation centers, and its stimula¬ tion of research and investigations in its methods are all factors that represent progress.Multiple sclerosis is one of modern medicine's mystery diseases. Despite intensive investigation its cause and cure remain unknown. Often readily diagnosed, even by the novice in medicine, it is at times one of the most difficult conditions, even for the neurologist, to diagnose accurately. Since the disease is not a reportable one, the exact number of persons afflicted is unknown; however, it has been estimated that there are 250,000 persons with 400

Psychologic Studies in Neurologic Diseases—a Review: Parkinson's Disease and Multiple Sclerosis*

“…; Chafetz, in particular, indicates that psychotherapy can contribute toward assisting the patient in his over‐all adjustment. Even when dealing with the neurologically diseased person in a medically oriented rehabilitation program, intensive efforts must be made in the social and psychologic areas as well as in the physical area “if significant benefit is to be anticipated from the rehabilitation program” (38). Moreover, it is clear that personality factors are significant even in drug programs for the neurologically diseased.…”