Showing papers in "Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in 1979"

TL;DR: The authors used the PULSES profile and the Barthel index to measure severity of disability and to monitor rehabilitation progress in a heterogeneous sample of 307 severely disabled persons in 10 comprehensive medical rehabilitation centers, geographically selected.

TL;DR: Functional abilities of stroke patients in a rehabilitation hospital are recorded every 2 weeks using the Barthel index, revealing that an initial score over 40 defines a population with a greater proportion of discharges to home and that patients with initial scores over 60 have a shorter length of stay.

TL;DR: This article analyzes how the shift from the rehabilitation to the IL paradigm is likely to affect the future of disability research.

TL;DR: Application of this device to the thenar eminence of 4 healthy subjects showed that externally applied pressure was approximately twice as effective as shear in reducing pulsatile arteriolar blood flow.

TL;DR: Patients with low level lesions were more willing to exchange a hypothetical chance of recovery and/or loss of reacquired physiologic functions for pain relief than were patients with higher lesions.

TL;DR: The most severe disabilities, institutionalization, dependence in mobility, and dependence in self-care, were the least prevalent and the more frequently documented types of functional deficit were those in which psychosocial and environmental factors are significant determinants.

TL;DR: Energy consumption by indirect calorimetry at rest and during ambulation in 25 unimpaired subjects and in unilateral below-knee (BK) amputee patients indicated several significant differences among the groups.

TL;DR: This study presents 2 additional treatment methods: training in sensory awareness and spatial organization and shows that combined multiple-treatment produces greater generalization than the original single treatment program.

TL;DR: Positional feedback (PF) and electrical stimulation were combined in a new treatment modality for facilitating wrist extension in stroke patients and study patients showed a 280% increase in isometric extension torque at the end of the 4-week program.

TL;DR: Results indicate that differences exist among groups in pressure sore history and psychosocial measures, and quadriplegics as a group (rather than paraplegics) had a history of fewer pressure sores.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that denervation, tenotomy, casting, and inflammation resulted in a greater loss of myofibrillar proteins (content and absolute amounts) than of sarcoplasmic and stromal proteins.

TL;DR: Ten patients with late stage Duchenne muscular dystrophy have been supplied with mechanical aid for ventilatory assistance, and with a caring family, these patients can have a meaningful life, even though they require continuous mechanical Ventilatory aid.

TL;DR: Psychologists' assessment of marriages based on interviews with the spinal cord injured subjects and their spouses revealed that the postin injury marriages were happier than the preinjury marriages.

TL;DR: A case study is used to illustrate a physical approach to the speech rehabilitation of adults with dysarthria that emphasizes the component-by-component analysis of the peripheral speech mechanism, where the selection and sequencing of treatment procedures follow directly from the physiologic nature and severity of involvement in each component.

TL;DR: It was concluded that basic torque measures differed with age and by position in the sport of football and speed of movement altered the force generating capabilities of the muscle and resultant ratios.

TL;DR: In this article, the reliability of quantitative strength measurements was examined in children with normal intelligence and with mild mental retardation using the isokinetic method, and the results showed mean score deviations of 5.3% to 5.8% for different muscle groups within the same test.

TL;DR: Leg strength was maintained during jogging but upper body strength was reduced significantly and Physiologic levels were maintained during the final 8 weeks and showed no differences between the CST and jogging groups.

TL;DR: In a 49-year-old man with ALS, dysarthria and dysphagia progressed from mild to severe forms over 17 months, and a tongue-strengthening program was developed for use with articulation training and to increase extremity strength, physical therapy was initiated.

TL;DR: Energy metabolism data were collected in a series of 8 male paraplegic patients with neurologically complete spinal cord lesions between T4 and T12 (1 patient had complete motor paralysis with incomplete sensory function).

TL;DR: The particular pattern of nerve damage reflected in this case report may be helpful in further elucidating the other, more common, diffuse postoperative brachial plexus palsies.

TL;DR: Lower extremities responded more favorably to training than upper extremities, and the prospects for successful treatments in the upper limb were further diminished when proprioceptive impairments were present.

TL;DR: The data derived from the study tend to quantify what clinicians have long appreciated in a qualitative sense, especially in areas where decubitus ulcers most often occur.

TL;DR: This article demonstrates how attendant care mirrors key independent living values and concepts, partially by evaluating the provisions of attendant care services under titles XIX and XX of the Social Security Act.

TL;DR: In 9 patients with meralgia paresthetica, the sensory nerve condition in the symptomatic nerves was definitely abnormal: nerve potential was absent in 6 and condition velocity was slow in 3, suggesting a possible asymptomatic entrapment neuropathy.

TL;DR: Those with a higher educational status and those who improved their education following injury were more likely to have obtained employment following injury and an intact post-injury marriage was associated with improvement in education.

TL;DR: Intramuscular neutrolysis with phenol has been used for 10 years in the management of spasticity in children but where uninhibited or tonic neck reflexes affect muscle tone, or there is dystonia or athetosis, the procedure is less effective than whereSpasticity alone is present.

TL;DR: The pathologic mechanism of pain production and the anatomic pattern of referral are described, and the early identification of the cervical radicular origin of the pain can promptly help to allay the patient's physical and psychologic discomfort.

TL;DR: Results of CT scanning appear to be associated with degree of functional recovery in patients with cerebral infarction.

TL;DR: A review of the prognosis of patients having neonatal spinal cord injury, findings in 3 patients and 11 case histories from the literature are evaluated as to obstetric complications, clinical and pathologic examinations, and follow-up data from 2 to 12 years, or until death of the child.