Sarcopenia is a progressive skeletal muscle disorder characterized by reduced strength and quality. Pathophysiological mechanisms, clinical aspects, nutritional points were related to sarcopenia in COVID-19 found during after the disease course, which corroborated development of adverse events. Declining physical activity, insufficient protein intake, worsened proinflammatory response have been...

BACKGROUND In spite of the well-demonstrated benefits for patients with COPD, pulmonary rehabilitation programmes show considerable drop-out and suboptimal attendance rates. The purpose of this prospective study is to examine causes for drop-out and non-attendance during a 12 week multidisciplinary pulmonary rehabilitation programme, and to investigate whether sociodemographic and medical facto...

OBJECTIVE To determine patient-, treatment-, and facility-level characteristics associated with receiving outpatient rehabilitation services after lower extremity amputation within the Veterans Affairs (VA) system. DESIGN Observational study. SETTING All Veterans Affairs Medical Centers (VAMCs). PARTICIPANTS Veterans (N=4165) with lower extremity amputation discharged from VAMCs between O...

CONTEXT Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer amongst women but it has the highest survival rates amongst all cancer. Rehabilitation therapy of post-treatment effects from cancer and its treatment is needed to improve functioning and quality of life. This review investigated the range of methods for improving physical, psychosocial, occupational, and social wellbeing in women with breast c...

BACKGROUND Dietary counseling is an integral part of treating malnutrition. A first step toward improving the management of moderate malnutrition is to evaluate dietary messages in current programs and assess their adequacy and effectiveness. OBJECTIVES To ascertain current recommendations regarding family foods for the treatment of moderate malnutrition and assess whether these are likely to...

Safe removal of tracheal cannula is a major goal in the rehabilitation of tracheostomised patients to achieve progressive independence from mechanical support and reduce the risk of respiratory complications. A tracheal cannula may also cause significant discomfort to the patient, making verbal communication difficult. Particularly when cuffed, tracheal cannula reduces the normal movement of th...

To analyze the relationship between arginine and blood ammonia, nutritional status, immunity, and to explore the regulating function of arginine in cerebral palsy infants with muscle hypotonia. We chose 96 cases with muscle hypotonia cerebral palsy from January 2009 to January 2012 in rehabilitation center of Zhengzhou children hospital as the research object, using the questionnaire survey to ...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition constitutes a public health problem throughout the world and particularly in developing countries. AIMS The objective of the study is to assess the impact of an elementary integrator composed of Spiruline (Spirulina platensis) and Misola (millet, soja, peanut) produced at the Centre Medical St Camille (CMSC) of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on the nutritional status of un...

In a study published in this journal Wakabayashi & Sashika (1) report that a poor rehabilitation outcome for hospital-associated deconditioning in elderly patients is associated with nutritional state, chronic disease-related malnutrition and albumin levels. Hospital-associated deconditioning, described as functional decline related to acute hospitalization, is of particular relevance, as it ha...