OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between glycosylated hemoglobin A (HbA1c) and complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) in stroke patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). METHODS A retrospective chart review was performed of stroke patients from January 2012 to December 2013. We reviewed 331 patients and included 200 in the analysis. We divided them into CRPS and non-CRPS groups a...

Background and Purpose—This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of gait training using an electromechanical gait trainer with or without functional electrical stimulation for people with subacute stroke. Methods—This was a nonblinded randomized controlled trial with a 6-month follow-up. Fifty-four subjects were recruited within 6 weeks after stroke onset and were randomly assigned to 1 of 3...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Chronic hemiparetic patients often retain the ability to manage activities requiring both hands, either through the use of the affected arm or compensation with the unaffected limb. A measure of this overall ability was developed by adapting and validating the ABILHAND questionnaire through the Rasch measurement model. ABILHAND measures the patient's perceived difficulty ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of virtual reality on the recovery of cognitive impairment in stroke patients. METHOD Twenty-eight patients (11 males and 17 females, mean age 64.2) with cognitive impairment following stroke were recruited for this study. All patients were randomly assigned to one of two groups, the virtual reality (VR) group (n=15) or the control group (n=13). The VR grou...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to confirm the effect of robot-assisted gait training on the balance and gait ability of stroke patients who were dependent ambulators. [Subjects and Methods] Twenty stroke patients participated in this study. The participants were allocated to either group 1, which received robot-assisted gait training for 4 weeks followed by conventional physical therap...

BACKGROUND: Shoulder subluxation is a frequent complication after stroke causing joint instability, shoulder pain, decreased activities of daily living, and impedance to rehabilitation progress. Electrical stimulation (ES) considered an effective modality reduce in acute stroke. However, few studies have investigated the effect position-triggered ES, which induces active muscle contraction thou...

OBJECTIVES To characterize the stomatognathic system and stomatognathic functions in patients with mucopolysaccharidosis. METHODS Cross-sectional and observational study of patients with mucopolysaccharidosis seen at the outpatient clinic at the Medical Genetics Service of Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre. The inclusion criteria were the existence of a biochemical or molecular diagnosis o...

Case presentation: JRCS, female, started, at 15 years old, dysphagia initially for solids, progressing to liquids, hand dystonia and anarthria after isolated fever. At the time she was admitted another pediatric center diagnostic investigation, with normal brain MRI, EEG ENMG. History of mother undiagnosed psychiatric disorder progressive gait dysfunction. age 16 hospitalized malnutrition assoc...

UNLABELLED The cerebellum, traditionally conceived as a controlling organ of motricity, it is today considered an all-important integration center for both sensitivity and coordination of the various phases of the cognitive process. AIM This paper aims at gather and sort literature information on the cerebellums role in the auditory perception. METHODS We have selected animal studies of bot...

On ophthalmologic examination, head-posturing was evident, chin up and a face turn to the left side when asked to look at a symbol of the LEA Vision Chart Test (Figure 1). In the primary position, a minimal right hypotropia was present, and during ocular motricity examination, a limited elevation in adduction of the right eye was present (Figure 2) . An audible but painless superior nasal click...