By Stephanie Margarete Müller, Claudia Winkelmann, and Martin Grunwald
This textbook provides physiotherapists, occupational therapists, nurses and other health professionals with all the essential research results on the sense of touch and its relevance in everyday work. How does touch affect physical and mental health? How do lesions of the central nervous system affect haptics? Can the sense of touch be trained? The experts provide you with the answers. From the content: • Anatomy, physiology and disorders of the haptic system • Testing, trainability and rehabilitation • Touch as a means of communication • Influence of touch on development, stress, pain, sleep, the immune system and various clinical pictures, including diabetes mellitus, depression,

Product Details

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Springer; 1st ed. 2022 edition (May 12, 2022)
• Language ‏ : ‎ German
• Digital eBook ‏ : ‎ 345 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3662640112
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3662640111