AIM To explore the relationship between motor cortical and descending motor pathway reorganization, lesion type, and upper limb function in youth with unilateral cerebral palsy (CP). METHODS Twenty participants with unilateral CP (mean age 15 ± 3 years; 11 males) completed a range of upper limb functional measures. Structural MRI, diffusion-weighted, and functional MRI were conducted to deter...

A divided attention task was used with 10 left or right cerebral vascular accident (CVA) subjects who had return of functional movement in the affected extremities. The primary task was one subtest of the Jebson Hand Function Test. The secondary task was a foot press to a series of auditory cues. Four measurements were obtained for each subject at intervals of 1 month, 2 months, and 3 months af...

CONTEXT Upper limb ischemia is not as common as lower limb ischemia but may cause severe impairment or disability if it is misdiagnosed. CASE REPORT A case of a woman with cleidocranial dysostosis resulting in upper right limb ischemia is presented. This uncommon condition is an exceedingly rare cause of vascular compression that gives rise to thrombosis of the axillary-subclavian arteries. O...

Late spontaneous recanalization of internal carotid artery is an unusual event that has received little attention. The authors report a case of a 73-year-old male patient, hypertensive, with previous history of cerebral vascular accident 3 years ago, with sensorimotor sequela in the right upper limb. Duplex scanning and arteriography showed total occlusion of the internal carotid artery. The pa...

The management of posttraumatic vascular injury that presents after 8 h, or "ultra-time vascular injury", is daunting, and inciting recognition of this injury is vital. We retrospectively analyzed 29 patients with ultra-time vascular injuries to determine the patients' demographic characteristics and identify the determinants for amputation and disability. The age distribution of the high-risk ...

Objective- We assessed the effect of change in core isometric strength and endurance on upper limb isometric strength in female athletes. Methods- In this experimental study, 32 female athletes aged 18-25 years were recruited based on the inclusion criteria. (17 cases in the experimental group and 15 cases in the control group). Before and after the core stabilization knockdown protocol, parti...

93 Received August 19, 2013; revised and accepted September 18, 2013. Published online October 5, 2013; doi: 10.1620/tjem.231.93. *These authors are equally contributed to this study. Correspondence: Hwi-young Cho, Department of Physical Therapy, College of Health Science, Gachon University, 191, Hambangmoero, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon 406-799, South Korea. e-mail address: [email protected] Task-R...