Content - Volume 43, Issue 4

Objective: We developed a home-based rehabilitation exercise system incorporating a powered joystick linked to a computer game, to enable children with arm paresis to participate in independent home exercise. We investigated the feasibility and impact of using the system in the home setting. Methods: Eighteen children with cerebral palsy (median age 7. 5 years, age range 5–16 years) were recru ...

Objective: Spastic equinovarus foot is a major cause of disability for neurorehabilitation patients, impairing their daily activities, social participation and general quality of life. Selective tibial nerve neurotomy is a neurosurgical treatment for focal spasticity, whose acceptance as treatment for spastic equinovarus foot remains controversial. We performed a systematic review of the literatur ...

Objective: To analyse factors associated with late return to work in road accident victims. Materials and methods: The ESPARR cohort comprises road accident victims monitored over time from initiation of hospital care. A total of 608 ESPARR cohort subjects were working at the time of their accident and answered questionnaires at 6 months and/or 1 year. For each level of overall severity of injur ...

Objectives: Variables from a study of patients with rheumatoid arthritis were linked to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) Core Set for rheumatoid arthritis. The purpose of this analysis was to evaluate the ICF Core Sets for rheumatoid arthritis for assessing the functional outcomes of the rheumatoid hand. Design: Prospective cohort. Subjects: A total ...

Objective: To assess the effect of arm motor impairment on actual arm use in the early post-stroke period and explore its association with self-care dependency. Subjects: Thirty-one patients recruited within the 30 first days after stroke. Methods: Motor impairment of the upper extremity was measured with Fugl-Meyer Motor Assessment (FMA) and arm use was measured with accelerometry. Arm moveme ...

Objective: This study examined change in physical activity as a behavioral correlate of short-term disability progression in persons with multiple sclerosis over a 6-month period. Design: Panel design. Subjects: The sample included 292 persons with multiple sclerosis. Methods: Participants wore an accelerometer for 7 days as a measure of physical activity and then provided demographics and c ...

Objective: To profile the demographic, clinical and environmental characteristics of persons with acquired brain injury receiving inpatient rehabilitation services in Canada. Design: This study utilizes data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information’s National Rehabilitation Reporting System, between April 2001 and March 2006. The data were collected from publicly insured institutions ...

Objectives: To evaluate the relationship between religiousness and mental health, hospitalization, pain, disability and quality of life in older adults from an outpatient rehabilitation setting in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Design: Cross-sectional study. Subjects/patients: A total of 110 patients aged 60 years or older were interviewed during attendance at an outpatient rehabilitation service. Metho ...

Objective and design: Long-term consequences of mild traumatic brain injuries were investigated based on a 10-year follow-up of patients from a previously-published randomized controlled study of mild traumatic brain injuries. One aim was to describe changes over time after mild traumatic brain injuries in terms of the extent of persisting post-concussion symptoms, life satisfaction, perceived hea ...

Objective: To evaluate the activity and participation levels of adults with spastic diplegia 17–26 years after selective dorsal rhizotomy; to investigate relationships between subjects’ functioning and age, socio-economic-status, level of satisfaction and their perceptions of the post-operative outcomes. Design: Observational follow-up study. Patients: Thirty-one subjects with spastic dipl ...

Objective: This study aimed to assess short-term effects of botulinum toxin A in ambulant adults with spastic cerebral palsy. Design: A single-centre double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trial. Subjects: Patients were recruited through advertisements. Inclusion criteria were: spastic cerebral palsy, age 18–65 years, decreased walking, walking without aids for minimum 20 m, a ...

Objective: To assess the likelihood of clinical tests for postural balance, walking and motor skills, performed during the first week after stroke, identifying the risk of falling. Design: Prospective study. Subjects: Patients with first stroke. Methods: Assessments were carried out during the first week, and the occurrence of falls was recorded 3, 6 and 12 months after stroke onset. The tes ...

Background: Stroke rehabilitation is moving towards more intense therapy models that incorporate technologies such as robotics and computer games. It is unclear how acceptable these changes will be to stroke survivors, as little is known about which aspects of rehabilitation programmes are currently valued. Discrete choice experiments are a potential approach to assessing patient preferences, as t ...

Objective: We developed a home-based rehabilitation exercise system incorporating a powered joystick linked to a computer game, to enable children with arm paresis to participate in independent home exercise. We investigated the feasibility and impact of using the system in the home setting. Methods: Eighteen children with cerebral palsy (median age 7. 5 years, age range 5–16 years) were recru ...

Objective: This pilot study trialled an in-home videoconferencing system to determine the feasibility of delivering rehabilitation services remotely to aged clients. Methods: Patients approved for community-based transition care were prospectively recruited to trial the eHAB™ video­conferencing system. Staff completed patient logs to record reasons for patient exclusion/inclusion. A staff sat ...

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