Heinrich Frenkel (1860-1931) was a Swiss physician who was an early practitioner of neuro-rehabilitation. Physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R or physiatry, is a branch of Medicine dealing with functional restoration of a person affected by physical disability He advocated a regimen of special exercise as physical therapy for patients with neurological disorders. Frenkel also published an important treatise concerning treatment of tabetic ataxia by means of systematic exercise and movement therapy. Ataxia (from Greek α- as a negative prefix + -τάξις, meaning "lack of order" is a neurological sign and symptom consisting
The renowned neurosurgeon Otfrid Foerster (1873-1941) regarded Frenkel as a major influence. Neurosurgery is the surgical discipline focused on treating those central, Peripheral nervous system and spinal column diseases amenable to surgical Otfrid Foerster (b 9 November 1873 in Breslau, Silesia; d 15 June 1941, also in Breslau was a German Neurologist Along with German ophthalmologist Albrecht von Graefe (1828-1870), Frenkel is credited for establishing Heiden, Switzerland as a world-famous health resort. Ophthalmology is the branch of Medicine which deals with the diseases and surgery of the visual pathways including the Eye, Brain Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Albrecht von Graefe (or Gräfe; May 22, 1828 &ndash July 20, 1870) was a pioneering German Heiden is a municipality in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden in Switzerland.
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