PURPOSE Multiple sclerosis (MS) manifests itself in a wide range of symptoms. Physiotherapy plays an important role in the treatment of those symptoms connected with mobility. For this therapy to be at its most effective it should be based on a systematic examination that is able to describe and classify damaged clinical functions meaningfully. The purpose of this study was to develop and valid...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The mechanisms underlying motor recovery after stroke are not fully understood. Several studies used functional MRI longitudinally to relate brain activity changes with performance gains of the upper limb after therapy, but research into training-induced recovery of lower limb function has been relatively neglected thus far. METHODS We investigated functional reorganiza...

OBJECTIVES To (1) determine which clinical assessments at admission to an inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) most simply predict discharge walking ability, and (2) identify a clinical decision rule to differentiate household versus community ambulators at discharge from an IRF. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING IRF. PARTICIPANTS Two samples of participants (n=110 and 159) ad...

OBJECTIVES Patients without voluntary finger extension early post-stroke are suggested to have a poor prognosis for regaining upper limb capacity at 6 months. Despite this poor prognosis, a number of patients do regain upper limb capacity. We aimed to determine the time window for return of voluntary finger extension during motor recovery and identify clinical characteristics of patients who, d...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE To study the longitudinal relationship of functional change in walking ability and change in time-dependent covariates and to develop a multivariate regression model to predict longitudinal change of walking ability. METHODS A total of 101 acute stroke patients with first-ever ischemic middle cerebral artery strokes was used as the population. Prospective cohort study b...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Early poststroke depression (PSD) is a frequent and specific entity that impairs the rehabilitation and functional recovery of hemiplegic patients. This trial was designed to study the efficacy and tolerance of fluoxetine (FLX) in the treatment of early PSD. METHODS This was a multicenter, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Recent hemiplegic patients (<3 months) su...

BACKGROUND Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) defines a heterogeneous class of children exhibiting marked impairment in motor coordination as a general group of deficits in fine and gross motricity (subtype mixed group) common to all research studies, and with a variety of other motor disorders that have been little investigated. No consensus about symptoms and etiology has been establis...

Background: keeping data about Ph.D.s of speech pathologists and audiologists updated allows the retrieval of what has been developed in these fields of knowledge, besides giving a dimension of the development of the Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences in our country. Aim: to analyze the educational background of Brazilian speech pathologists and audiologists with Ph.D. within the period of 1...