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Guidelines

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Resources and publications

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Ataxia Guidelines

New updated and expanded Guidelines were produced in November 2009 to help healthcare professionals in the diagnosis and managent of people with ataxia. These Guideleines are the result of extensive consultation with ataxia specialist neurologists and other healthcare professionals. They include comprehensive sections on diagnosis, medical interventions for symptom relief and therapies (physiotherapy, SLT and OT).

‘Management of the ataxias: Towards best clinical practice’ Ataxia UK - updated 2009 

For physiotherapists with a particular interest in ataxia, a supplement to the physiotherapy section of the Ataxia Clinical Guidelines is also available that contains further details of the individual studies described:

Physiotherapy supplement (Management of the Ataxias: towards best Clinical Practice)

Healthcare Professionals' Registry

Join our Healthcare Professionals' Registry to receive a regular e-newsletter with information about conferences, training days, research updates and developments in treatment and care. Previous newsletters can be read below:

Healthcare e-newsletter February 2012

Healthcare e-newsletter September 2011

Healthcare e-newsletter April 2011

Medical professionals interested in receiving these updates can complete the online form.

Short booklets and published papers describing ataxia

Information on Friedreich's ataxia

‘Management of ataxia: Guidelines on Best Clinical Practice – Summary for GPs’ Ataxia UK 

‘The patient’s journey: the progressive ataxias’ BMJ Oct 05 331 p 1007 – 9

‘The inherited cerebellar ataxias’ Synapse March 06  05 p 6