BACKGROUND Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, immune-mediated, inflammatory disease that leads to fatigue, pain, and spasticity, as well as other sensorimotor and cognitive changes. Often traditional medical approaches are ineffective in alleviating these disruptive symptoms. Although about one-third of surveyed individuals report they use massage therapy (MT) as an adjunct to medical treatm...

Case Report A 67-year-old right-handed male who had suffered an ischemic left basal ganglia stroke with right hemiparesis was evaluated for post-stroke rehabilitation therapies. He had undergone comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation six months earlier. When he was discharged home, he required supervision for upper and lower body dressing but was at a “modified independent” level for ambulation...

Primary lateral sclerosis is a disorder categorized by insidious onset of progressive upper motor neuron dysfunction without lower involvement. PLS often presents with gradual-onset, extremity stiffness and pain due to muscle spasticity. Intrathecal Baclofen pumps (ITB) have been used effectively treat spasticity in several neurologic conditions including MS spinal cord injury. This study aimed...

conclusions: the results obtained from this study support the idea that the timi and modified timi risk scores might be valuable tools that could be used to stratify the risk of patients with atypical chest pain in the emergency department. results: no significant difference could be observed between both groups regarding demographic characteristics, ejection fraction, left ventricle hypertroph...

Purpose: To develop a continuous passive motion (CPM) device for the passive motion of the paretic ankle-foot and investigate the effect of continuous passive motion of bedridden, hemiparetic acute stroke patients. Methods: 49 patients with stroke were investigated. Results in stroke patients (device group) were compared with those of 15 control subjects (manual group) also with stroke but not ...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between mobility assessed by the Modified Rivermead Mobility Index and variables associated with physical function in stroke patients. [Subjects and Methods] One hundred stroke patients (35 males and 65 females; age 58.60 ± 13.91 years) participated in this study. Modified Rivermead Mobility Index, muscle strength (manual m...

Aim: The comparison of the efficiency Classical Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation (CPTR), Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS), Electromyographic Biofeedback (EMG-BF) Robotic (RR) on tibialis anterior (mTA) muscle activation functions hemiplegic patients was aimed.Materials Methods: Thirty aged 40-86 years were participated. range motion (ROM), 10 meters walk test, Modified Ashworth Scale (MAS...