title: Rehabilitation of leprosy-affected people: An overview.
abstract: Leprosy is mainly a disease of the skin and nerves. The involvement of nerves may lead to impairments that have, contributed to the fact that leprosy is often still seen as a disease to be feared. In non-leprosy-endemic Western countries, beliefs continue to prevail about the inevitability of deformities and the lack of a cure. I review the pathogenesis of deformity and to present a discourse on how deformities can, to a very large extent, be prevented and corrected.
authors.affiliation: Independent leprosy-hand rehabilitation consultant, Hoevelaken, 3871 HG-18, The Netherlands. Electronic address: jwbrandsma@gmail.com.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wim Brandsma
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007918:Leprosy / Q000534:rehabilitation*