| Titre : | Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 2014/11. - 2014 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 01/11/2014 |
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Postacute care costs have doubled over the past decade and now account for 17% of Medicare fee-for-service spending. Costs are forecast to continue to rise, paradoxically in large part in response to federal policies and efforts to control healt[...]
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To investigate the effectiveness of mirror therapy (MT) combined with bilateral arm training and graded activities to improve motor performance in the paretic upper limb after stroke.
Design
Randomized, controlled, assessor-blinded s[...]
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To compare the efficacy of gait training using a single-leg version of the Hybrid Assistive Limb (HAL) on the paretic side with conventional gait training in individuals with subacute stroke.
Design
Randomized open controlled pilot t[...]
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To study the immediate and short-term efficacy of adding transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) to standardized physical therapy on subacute spasticity within 6 months of spinal cord injury.
Design
Randomized controlled t[...]
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To evaluate the effects of whole body vibration (WBV) and local muscle vibration (LMV) on quadriceps function after experimental knee effusion (ie, simulated pathology).
Design
Randomized controlled trial.
Setting
Research laborator[...]
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To (1) determine the long-term trajectory of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) for the dimensions of physical complaints and motor, psychological, and social functioning for groups of individuals with cerebral palsy (CP) aged 1 [...]
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To identify different employment trajectories in individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) after discharge from initial rehabilitation and to determine predictors of different trajectories from demographic, injury, functional, and ps[...]
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To evaluate dysarthria and dysarthria-related quality of life (QOL) and analyze its relations with duration of disease, severity, and general QOL in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS).
Design
Cross-sectional observational study.
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Ya-Chen Lee ;
Wan-Hui Yu ;
Yu-Fen Lin
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To examine the intrarater reliability, interrater reliability, and responsiveness of the Activities of Daily Living Computerized Adaptive Testing system (ADL CAT) in patients with stroke.
Design
One repeated-measures design (at an in[...]
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To develop and validate an English version of the Neuromuscular (NM)-Score, a classification for patients with NM diseases in each of the 3 motor function domains: D1, standing and transfers; D2, axial and proximal motor function; and[...]
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To describe changes in gross motor function and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in adults with cerebral palsy (CP).
Design
An 8-year follow-up survey.
Setting
Participants who completed the baseline survey in 2003 were invite[...]
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To use item response theory (IRT) methods to link scores from 2 recently developed contemporary functional outcome measures, the adult Spinal Cord Injury–Functional Index (SCI-FI) and the Pedi SCI (both the parent version and the chil[...]
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To monitor treatment effects in patients with congenital myopathies and congenital muscular dystrophies, valid outcome measures are necessary. The Motor Function Measure (MFM) was examined for robustness, and changes are proposed for[...]
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To examine the effects of character strengths on psychosocial outcomes after mild complicated to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Design
Prospective study with consecutive enrollment.
Setting
A Midwestern rehabilitation hospital[...]
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To examine person, injury, and treatment characteristics associated with recovery trajectories of people with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) during inpatient rehabilitation.
Design
Observational prospective longitudinal study.
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To determine the most robust dimensional structure of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) categories relevant to spinal cord injury (SCI) across subgroups of lesion level, health care context, [...]
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To report outcomes regarding general and specific physical health-related quality of life of treatment with percutaneous osseointegrated prostheses.
Design
Prospective 2-year case-control study.
Setting
University hospital.
Particip[...]
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To investigate the effects of an automated stride assistance device that assists hip joint flexion and extension movement in energy expenditure during walking in healthy young adults using an expired gas method.
Design
Prospective, s[...]
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To evaluate functional outcome and quality of life 1 year poststroke in a Caribbean population.
Design
Prospective study of patients with a first hemispheric stroke admitted consecutively between December 2010 and February 2011. The [...]
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To examine racial and ethnic differences in self-care and mobility outcomes for persons with a motor complete, traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) at discharge and 1-year follow-up.
Design
Retrospective cohort study.
Setting
Sixteen [...]
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To report the frequency, severity, and types of comorbidities in people with Parkinson disease (PD) using a validated self-report comorbidity screening tool, and to determine the relationship between comorbidity and functional mobili[...]
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To examine the longitudinal effects of race/ethnicity on hospitalization among adults with spinal cord injury (SCI) in the 10-year period after initial injury.
Design
Retrospective analysis of postinjury hospitalizations among non-Hi[...]
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To examine the effects of an anterior ankle-foot orthosis (AAFO) on walking mobility in stroke patients.
Design
Cross-sectional and repeated-measures study design.
Setting
A university's neurologic rehabilitation department.
Partici[...]
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To test the hypothesis that hybrid functional electrical stimulation (FES) row training would improve aerobic capacity but that it would remain strongly linked to level of spinal cord lesion because of limited maximal ventilation.
Design
Longit[...]
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Objective
To examine the effectiveness of gabapentin and pregabalin in diminishing neuropathic pain and other secondary conditions in individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI).
Data Sources
A systematic search was conducted using multiple data[...]
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To evaluate the existing evidence comparing the outcomes of rehabilitation conducted in a group setting and individual therapy for patients receiving rehabilitation.
Data Sources
Electronic databases MEDLINE, CINAHL, EMBASE, PEDro, a[...]
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To review all pharmacological and physiological data available on intrathecal baclofen (ITB) therapy and to evaluate its use in clinical practice and future research.
Data Sources
PubMed was searched for relevant anatomic, physiologi[...]
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The use of brightness-mode ultrasound and Doppler ultrasound in physical medicine and rehabilitation has increased dramatically. The continuing evolution of ultrasound technology has also produced ultrasound elastography, a cutting-edge technolo[...]
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Objective
To examine the effect of 5 measures of team functioning on patient outcomes.
Design
Observational, exploratory, measurement. Team functioning surveys and patient outcomes collected 1 year apart in a clinical trial were analyzed. The [...]
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Approximately 5.3 million Americans live with disabilities related to traumatic brain injury (TBI).1 TBI causes a wide range of impairments; even high-functioning individuals with TBI often have physical impairments that impede their ability to [...]
