(1) Post Graduation Program in Dentistry at Piracicaba School of Dentistry, Campinas State University – FOP-UNICAMP, Piracicaba-SP, Brazil. (2) University of Sagrado Coração, Bauru-SP, Brazil. (3) Speech-language pathologist; PhD Professor of the Speech-Language Pathology Department at Bauru School of Dentistry, University of São Paulo FOB-USP, Bauru-SP, Brazil; PhD in Physiopathology in Medica...

Robot-assisted rehabilitation facilitates high-intensity training of the impaired upper limb in neurological rehabilitation. It has been clinically observed that persons with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) have difficulties in sustaining the training intensity during a session due to the development of activity-related muscle fatigue. An experimental observational pilot study was conducted to examine ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Treadmill training with partial body weight support is a new and promising therapy in gait rehabilitation of stroke patients. The study intended to investigate its efficiency compared with gait training within regular physiotherapy in nonambulatory patients with chronic hemiparesis. METHODS An A-B-A single-case study design compared treadmill training plus partial body ...

[Purpose] This observational study provides a retrospective description of changes in motor function of a 10 year old child who suffered from motor weakness caused by Moyamoya disease (MMD) over an approximately 3 year follow-up observation period. [Methods] The child was diagnosed as MMD due to multifocal encephalomalacia in both frontal and parietal cortices. After the ischemic attack, the ch...

OBJECTIVE To identify risk factors and predict falling in stroke patients. To determine the strength of general vs mobility screening for this prediction. DESIGN Prospective study. SUBJECTS Patients in the first 6 months after stroke. METHODS The following assessments were carried out: an interview concerning civil state and fall history, Mini-Mental State Examination, Geriatric Depressio...

OBJECTIVE To compare the effect of cyclic and electromyography (EMG)-triggered electrical stimulation on motor impairment and function of the affected upper extremity in chronic stroke. DESIGN Randomized controlled trial. SETTING Outpatient clinic of a rehabilitation centre. SUBJECTS AND INTERVENTION Twenty-two subjects in the chronic stage after stroke were randomly assigned to receive e...

Although changes in brain gray matter after stroke have been identified in some neuroimaging studies, lesion heterogeneity and individual variability make the detection of potential neuronal reorganization difficult. This study attempted to investigate the potential structural cortical reorganization after sub-cortical stroke using a longitudinal voxel-based gray matter volume (GMV) analysis. E...

BACKGROUND Early prognosis, adequate goal setting, and referral are important for stroke management. OBJECTIVE To investigate if independent gait 6 months poststroke can be accurately predicted within the first 72 hours poststroke, based on simple clinical bedside tests. Reassessment on days 5 and 9 was used to check whether accuracy changed over time. METHODS In 154 first-ever ischemic str...