background: the sporadic type of hemiplegic migraine (hm) is sometimes observed among migrainous patients (mp) and mimics ischemic strokes. methods: in an evaluation of two-hundred consecutive adult mp in the mackenzie headache clinic, canada during 2004 , 9% of the patients met the criteria established by the international headache society for sporadic hm. female to male sex ratio, family hist...

People with a physical handicap are often not able to engage and embrace the world of music on the same terms as normal functioning people. Traditional musical instruments have been refined over the last centuries, developing highly specialized and powerful interfaces; but nearly all require two functioning hands. In this study we try to enable people with Hemiplegia to play a real electrical g...

RESUMO O objetivo deste estudo é comparar os desempenhos no teste de sentar e levantar a velocidade caminhada indivíduos com hemiplegia crônica decorrente acidente vascular encefálico (AVE) um grupo-controle (GC). Além disso, será investigado se existe associação entre resistência membros inferiores, mensurada partir do levantar, em GC. Por fim, verificado existem diferenças intragrupo para tes...

Our aim in this retrospective study of 52 children with spastic hemiplegia was to determine the factors which affected the amount of residual pelvic rotation after single-event multilevel surgery. The patients were divided into two groups, those who had undergone femoral derotation osteotomy and those who had not. Pelvic rotation improved significantly after surgery in the femoral osteotomy gro...

OBJECTIVES To assess the food intake pattern and the nutritional status of children with cerebral palsy. METHODS Cross-sectional study with 90 children from two to 12.8 years with cerebral palsy in the following forms: hemiplegia, diplegia, and tetraplegia. Nutritional status was assessed by weight, height, and age data. Food intake was verified by the 24-hour recall and food frequency question...

Cognitive impairment is a prominent feature in a range of different movement disorders. Children with Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood are prone to developmental delay, with deficits in cognitive functioning becoming progressively more evident as they grow older. Heterozygous mutations of the ATP1A3 gene, encoding the Na+,K+-ATPase α3 subunit, have been identified as the primary cause of Alt...