Content - Volume 44, Issue 1

Objective: To explore the influence of level of functioning and cognitive status on outcome after rehabilitation for older people with different types of impairment. Design: An inception cohort study. Subjects: A total of 560 older people, mean age 80. 0 years, participating in rehabilitation programmes in the Sydney area. Methods: Level of functioning using the Functional Independence Measu ...

Purpose: To describe and compare the content of instruments that assess environmental factors using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). Methods: A systematic search of PubMed, CINAHL and PEDro databases was conducted using a pre-determined search strategy. The identified instruments were screened independently by two investigators, and meaningful concept ...

Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the reliability and validity of the Disability of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand (DASH) questionnaire in a Swedish rheumatoid arthritis population. Methods: To investigate the concurrent and convergent validity, 67 patients with rheumatoid arthritis completed the DASH, the Health Assessment Questionnaire Disability Index (HAQ) and activity-induced pain. ...

Objective: To evaluate and compare the efficacy of 2 rehabilitation strategies after arthroscopic acromioplasty: supervised physical therapy focusing on strengthening exercises of the rotator cuff and scapula stabilizers (PT-group) vs home-based movement exercises (H-group). Design: A randomized, single-blinded, clinically controlled study. Patients: Thirty-six patients entered the study. Thir ...

Objective: The aims of this study were to examine the ability of patients to return to driving cars and riding motorcycles after lower limb amputation, and to explore the factors that significantly affect such ability. Design: A sample of 90 participants, mean age 55. 2 years (standard deviation 12. 5), were recruited from a tertiary hospital. Inclusion criteria were: age over 18 years; unilater ...

Objective: To explore the influence of level of functioning and cognitive status on outcome after rehabilitation for older people with different types of impairment. Design: An inception cohort study. Subjects: A total of 560 older people, mean age 80. 0 years, participating in rehabilitation programmes in the Sydney area. Methods: Level of functioning using the Functional Independence Measu ...

Objectives: Psychogenic gait is common in patients with medically unexplained neurological symptoms and provides significant challenges to healthcare providers. Clinicians may arrive at a correct diagnosis earlier if distinctive positive signs are identified and acknowledged. This study aims to offer a tool for identifying patterns of psychogenic gait based on positive signs in clinical settings. ...

Objective: To explore and describe factors associated with occupational gaps and to identify factors at 3 months that predict occupational gaps one year post-stroke. A gap, a restriction in participation, is considered to be present when there is a discrepancy between what the individual wants to do and what they actually do in everyday life. Design: Prospective longitudinal study. Subjects: T ...

Objectives: To investigate the effect of walkway length (5, 8 or 10 m) on measurements of comfortable and maximum walking speed. Design: A cross-sectional study. Setting: University-based rehabilitation centre. Subjects: Patients (n = 25) with chronic stroke. Methods: Timed walking with different walkway lengths (5, 8 and 10 m) walkways were recorded using a stop-watch. Resul ...

Objective: To determine the long-term course of social activity after a stroke. Design: Prospective cohort study. Patients: Patients with a first-ever supratentorial stroke were selected in 4 Dutch rehabilitation centres. Methods: Social activity was measured by the Frenchay Activities Index (FAI) at 1 and 3 years post-stroke to determine social activity. Changes in FAI scores ≥  ...

Objective: The aims of this study were: (i) to compare the neuro­prosthetic effect of implantable peroneal nerve stimulation to the orthotic effect of a standard of care intervention (no device, shoe or ankle foot orthosis) on walking, as assessed by spatiotemporal parameters; and (ii) to examine whether there is evidence of an enhanced lower-limb flexion reflex with pe­roneal nerve stimulation ...

Objective: To validate the dimensionality, hierarchical properties, and reliability of the Frenchay Activities Index. Design: Self-report survey of patients with stroke. Patients: A total of 127 patients provided 254 observations before and after treatments. Methods: Multidimensional Rasch model was conducted. Results: The 2-factor model showed the significantly smallest deviance and fitte ...

Objective: To examine the contents of the Mayo-Portland Adaptability Inventory (MPAI-4) by mapping it to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). Methods: Each of the 30 scoreable items in the MPAI-4 was mapped to the most precise ICF categories. Results: All 30 items could be mapped to components and categories in the ICF. A total of 88 meaningful concepts ...

Objective: To describe the proportion of people with spinal cord injury who returned to work 5 years after discharge from inpatient rehabilitation, and to investigate whether return to work is related to wheelchair capacity at discharge from inpatient rehabilitation. Design: Multi-centre prospective cohort study. Subjects: A total of 103 participants with acute spinal cord injury at 8 Dutch re ...

Objective: To compare functional exercise capacity, pulmonary function and respiratory muscle strength in fully ambulatory patients with multiple sclerosis with different disability levels and healthy controls, and to elucidate the determinant factors of functional exercise capacity. Methods: Forty-three fully ambulatory patients with multiple sclerosis and 30 healthy controls were included in t ...

Objective: The aim of this study was to design a trial that could evaluate the effect of acceptance and commitment therapy as a group-intervention for multiple sclerosis patients with psychological distress. Design: Randomized controlled trial with assessment at pretreatment, end of treatment, and at 3-month follow-up. Subjects: Multiple sclerosis outpatients with elevated symptoms of anxiety ...

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