AIMS To test the long term cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness of the Sherbrooke model of management of subacute occupational back pain, combining an occupational and a clinical rehabilitation intervention. METHODS A randomised trial design with four arms was used: standard care, occupational arm, clinical arm, and Sherbrooke model arm (combined occupational and clinical interventions). From ...

This paper describes our ongoing project about a new wheelchair-based rehabilitation robotic system for the disabled, called KARES 11 (KAIST Rehabilitation Engineering Service System Io. We shall concentrate on the issues of design and visual servoing of the robotic arm with three human-robot interaction subsystems: an eyemouse, an EMG interface, and a haptic suit interface. First, the specific...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Arm function recovery is notoriously poor in stroke patients. The effect of treatment modalities, particularly those directed at improving upper limb function, has been studied primarily in chronic stroke patients. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of a specific therapeutic intervention on arm function in the acute phase after stroke. METHODS In a ...

introduction: multiple sclerosis (ms) is one of the most common disabling diseases in young adults. common manifestations include fatigue, bladder and bowel disorders, pain, mobility problems, and cognitive impairment. these symptoms seriously affect the activity of daily living (adl) of people with ms. the purpose of this study to investigate relationship between disability severity and adl in...

Nonspecific activity-related arm pain is characterized by an absence of objective physical findings and symptoms that do not correspond with objective pathophysiology. Arm pain without strict diagnosis is often related to activity, work-related activity in particular, and is often seen in patients with physically demanding work. Psychological factors such as catastrophic thinking, symptoms of d...

This retrospective study evaluated patient shoulder function and general health at a minimum of two-years following massive rotator cuff reconstruction using the long head of the triceps brachii muscle. Fourteen patients completed the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder, and Hand scale (DASH), the Shoulder Pain and Disability Index (SPADI), and Medical Outcomes Survey Short Form 36 (SF-36). Five ...

OBJECTIVES Objectives were to 1) compare self-reported function, dexterity, activity performance, quality of life and community integration of the DEKA Arm to conventional prostheses; and 2) examine differences in outcomes by conventional prosthesis type, terminal device type and by DEKA Arm configuration level. METHODS This was a two-part study; Part A consisted of in-laboratory training. Pa...

The Disability of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand (DASH) and the Patient-Rated Wrist Evaluation (PRWE) scores appear most frequently in the literature when assessing functional outcome after distal radius fracture. We aimed to evaluate if the two questionnaires correlate. We reviewed 258 cases of adults who sustained a distal radius fracture over a one year period. At mean follow-up of 17 months the...

OBJECTIVE To compare the efficacy and safety of incobotulinumtoxinA with conventional antispastic therapy for poststroke arm spasticity in routine clinical practice over a 1-year period. DESIGN Prospective, non-interventional, open-label, parallel-group study. SETTING 47 centres in Germany. PARTICIPANTS Patients with poststroke arm spasticity; 108 receiving incobotulinumtoxinA, 110 conven...