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Herman Kabat
American specialist in physical medicine, born 1913.
Associated eponyms:
Kabat's proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation
A form of physical therapy using passive stretching techniques for patients suffering from paralysis and muscular diseases.
Biography:
Herman Kabat, M.D., Ph.D, is a specialist in physical medicine. In 1946, with the industrialist Henry J. Kaiser (1882-1967), he established the Kabat-Kaiser Institute in Vallejo, California. One of the purposes of the institute was to conduct medical research in neuromuscular disorders.
Bibliography:
- H. Kabat:
Electrical stimulation of points in the forebrain and mid-brain: the resultant alternations in respiration.
The Journal of Comparative Neurology, August 1936, 64 (2): 87-208
- H. Kabat, H.W. Magoun and S.W. Ranson.
Reaction of the bladder to stimulation of points in the forebrain and mid-brain.
The Journal of Comparative Neurology, February, 1936, 63 (2): 211-239
- H. Kabat and Maurice B. Visscher
The elastic properties of the beating tortoise ventricle with particular reference to hysteresis. American Journal of Physiology, Washington, 1939, 125: 437-448.
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