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New Evidence for Therapies in Stroke Rehabilitation
A report in Current Atherosclerosis Reports, 05/03/2013 looks at the evidence based in medicine for physical therapy interventions to promote Neurologic rehabilitation post stroke. The report by Dobkin...
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Home therapy to improve arm and hand function after brain injury in New Zealand
Over 30,000 New Zealanders have a traumatic brain injury (TBI) each year. Added to this only 11 per cent of people with stroke receive any rehabilitation therapy after they leave hospital. Because of...
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The impact of rehabilitative services in the lives of adults and children...
What is the impact of rehabilitative services in the lives of adults and children with disabilities and is their a relationship between amount of treatment and functional gains. This question was asked...
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Unraveling the `black box of physical rehabilitation’
How to support professionals to better understand the effective components of inpatient and outpatient physical rehabilitation programmes after acquired brain injury. In addition how out-patient group...
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Rehabilitation of traumatic and non-traumatic spinal cord injuries (SCI)
Kennedy P et al. working at the National Spinal Injuries Centre, Stoke Mandeville Hospital, UK discuss whether patients with traumatic spinal cord injuries and patients with non-traumatic spinal cord...
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Post-stroke spasticity Management
An estimated 16 million people worldwide experience first-time strokes each yea. Of these two-thirds of stroke patients are younger than 70 years of age. Stroke is therefore a leading cause of...
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The contribution of movement activation and inhibition in Parkinson’s Disease
Writing in Journal of Parkinson’s Disease, 05/08/2013 Disbrow EA et al.use functional magnetic resonance imaging (fmri) to look at circuits within the basal ganglia that coordinate activation and...
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Balance and mobility problems in patients with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury MTBI
Reliability, validity, and responsiveness of the High–Level Mobility Assessment Tool (HiMAT) in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury MTBI was looked at in Physical Therapy, 05/08/2013. The research was...
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Central post-stroke pain syndrome (CPSP)
Central post-stroke pain syndrome (CPSP) is described by patients as sharp, stabbing, or burning pain and the experience of hyperpathia – an abnormally exaggerated subjective response to painful...
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Are musculoskeletal problems in Parkinson’s disease neglected
Parkinson’s disease – PD patients do not receive adequate treatment for musculoskeletal problems. This was the conclusion reached by Kim YE et al. from the Department of Neurology and Movement Disorder...
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