Objective: The study assessed the effect of a single session of repetitive peripheral magnetic stimulation (rpMS) combined with manual stretch on wrist and finger flexor muscle spasticity. Methods: Forty chronic patients after CNS lesion with a severe wrist and finger flexor spasticity with a Modified Ashworth Score (MAS, 0-5) of either 2, 3 or 4 participated and formed two groups. A single ses...

Objective: To investigate the impact of BOTOX, along with task-specific training, on focal hand dystonia in post-stroke patients and to determine correlation between quality life motor outcomes upper extremity dystonic patients. Methodology: A quasi-experimental involving 20 patients, study was conducted at Holy Family Hospital (HFH), Chambeli Institute Rehabilitation Rawalpindi, Neurocounsel C...

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[Purpose] The purpose of this case series was to determine the effects of robot-assisted hand rehabilitation with a Gloreha device on skeletal muscle perfusion, spasticity, and motor function in subjects with poststroke hemiparesis. [Subjects and Methods] Seven patients, 2 women and 5 men (mean ± SD age: 60.5 ±6.3 years), with hemiparesis (>6 months poststroke), received passive mobilization of...

This pilot study was designed to examine the effects of short-term (48-hr) upper extremity inhibitive casting, with an encased thermoplastic splint, on problems related to upper motor neuron damage. The subject was an 8 1/2-year-old girl with left upper extremity spasticity. Three different measures were used: (a) rating of videotaped active movements of the child; (b) the Modified Ashworth Sca...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the therapeutic effect of electrical stimulation on plantarflexor spasticity in stroke patients. DESIGN A randomized controlled clinical trial study. SETTING Rehabilitation clinic of Semnan University of Medical Sciences. SUBJECTS Forty stroke patients (aged from 42 to 65 years) with ankle plantarflexor spasticity. INTERVENTION Fifteen minutes of inhibitory Boba...

Literature shows that some health outcomes (e.g., eating, breathing, and speaking) are directly related to posture. Evidence of outcomes mediated by wheelchair seated posture is limited to interface pressure, physical function, and wheelchair skills and safety. This study's purpose was to develop and validate a rapid, low-burden, paper-pencil assessment of wheelchair seated posture for research...

OBJECTIVE This work intended to observe the effect of injecting botolinum toxin type A (BTX-A) for relieving spastic iliopsoas of cerebral palsy on children, and to investigate the improvement of this method for the motor function in these children. PATIENTS AND METHODS From July 2006 to August 2012, 37 children with spastic iliopsoas cerebral palsy were received rehabilitation therapy. The a...

OBJECTIVE To explore the effect of treatment after botulinum toxin type A combined with treatments for the spastic foot. DESIGN Single-blind, randomized trial, with 3-month follow-up. SUBJECTS Twenty-three chronic hemiplegic adult patients with spastic equinus foot. METHODS Following botulinum toxin type A injection at the medial and lateral gastrocnemius, patients were assigned randomly ...

Fetal-type Minamata disease is caused by the exposure to high concentrations of methylmercury in the fetal period and shows cerebral palsy-like clinical features. Relief of spasticity is a major task of rehabilitation to improve their activities of daily living. Here we report the effect of long-term vibration therapy on bilateral lower-limb spasticity in 3 patients with fetal-type Minamata dis...