Showing papers in "Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in 2007"

TL;DR: The Functional Ambulation Category (FAC) in hemiparetic patients after stroke has excellent reliability, good concurrent and predictive validity, and good responsiveness in patients with hemiparesis after stroke.

TL;DR: The findings indicate that lingual exercise enables acute and chronic dysphagic stroke patients to increase lingual strength with associated improvements in swallowing pressures, airway protection, and lingual volume.

TL;DR: Step length asymmetry is related to propulsive force generation during hemiparetic walking and one of the mechanisms for the longer paretic step may be the relatively greater compensatory nonparetic leg propulsion.

TL;DR: Patients who received robotic therapy in addition to conventional therapy showed greater reductions in motor impairment and improvements in functional abilities, andRobotic therapy may effectively complement standard rehabilitation from the start, by providing therapeutic support for patients with poststroke plegic and paretic upper limb.

TL;DR: T theoretical and conceptual distinctions building on response shift theory and other current developments in HRQOL research are presented and a set of suggested directions for future measurement development in populations with disabilities are submitted.

TL;DR: The higher prevalence of GTPS in women and in adults with ITB pain or knee OA indicates that altered lower-limb biomechanics may be related to GTPS, and slower functional performance in those with GTPS suggests that the study of targeted rehabilitation may be useful.

TL;DR: Improved understanding of the factors that predict ambulatory function may assist the design of individualized rehabilitation strategies across the spectrum of gait deficit severity in those with hemiparetic stroke.

TL;DR: The results show the potential to enhance gait rhythmicity in patients with PD and suggest that a progressive and intensive treadmill training program can be used to minimize impairments in gait, reduce fall risk, and increase QOL in these patients.

TL;DR: Mirror therapy combined with a conventional stroke rehabilitation program enhances lower-extremity motor recovery and motor functioning in subacute stroke patients.

TL;DR: For this cohort of participants with spastic diplegia CP who ambulated with or without an assistive device, strength was highly related to function and explained far more of the variance than spasticity.

TL;DR: The study population showed improved performance when negotiating stairs and hills, reduced frequency of stumbling and falling, and a preference for the microprocessor control C-Leg as compared with the mechanical control prosthetic knee.

TL;DR: Parent perceptions of environmental barriers to recreational, community, and school participation for children with physical disabilities are described, providing valuable information about the environmental factors that support or hinder participation while showing the complexity of these issues.

TL;DR: People with SCI were found to have lowered quality of life (QOL) compared with the Australian general population and rehabilitation strategies may need to concentrate on improving QOL by targeting factors like low self-efficacy.

TL;DR: Isokinetic concentric and eccentric knee extensor and flexor strength variables are reliable when measured by the same examiner in asymptomatic subjects.

TL;DR: This review summarizes key factors that must be considered to support this critical clinical transition and sets the foundation for future research to apply prospective study designs to evaluate transition interventions and determine long-term health outcomes.

TL;DR: The DGI showed high reliability and showed evidence of concurrent validity with other balance and mobility scales and is a useful clinical tool for evaluating dynamic balance in ambulatory people with chronic stroke.

TL;DR: The findings of this study would indicate that multiple baseline measures are desirable for the more challenging conditions, and a composite change of greater than 8 points would indicate change due to rehabilitation.

TL;DR: The SCPT is a clinically relevant measure of leg power impairments and is meaningfully associated with mobility performance, making it suitable for clinical settings in which impairment-mobility relationships are of interest.

TL;DR: Changing instructions while maintaining the same cognitive and motor tasks on WWT in older adults result in task prioritization effects.

TL;DR: This analysis provides further evidence for the validity of the FPI-6 as a clinical instrument for use in screening studies and shows that it has the potential to be analyzed using parametric strategies.

TL;DR: There seems to be no mechanical rationale for using an abdominal hollow, or the transversus abdominis, to enhance stability, and repeated-measures analysis of variance found that braces creates patterns that better enhance stability.

TL;DR: Elevated levels of circulating proinflammatory cytokines and autoantibodies are present in the serum of SCI subjects without medical complications, and are further elevated inSCI subjects with neuropathic pain, UTI, or pressure ulcers, relative to healthy, able-bodied control subjects.

TL;DR: After familiarization practice, training under the effects of PNS reduced JTHFT time by 10% beyond the post-familiarization plateau, accompanied by a specific reduction in GABAergically mediated intracortical inhibition in the motor cortex.

TL;DR: TBI subjects who received social communication skills training had improved communication skills that were maintained on follow-up, and overall life satisfaction for participants was improved.

TL;DR: Amitriptyline is more efficacious in relieving neuropathic pain than diphenhydramine at or below the level of spinal cord injury in people who have considerable depressive symptomatology.

TL;DR: Executive function deficits are common in stroke patients and limitations in information processing due to these deficits may require environmental and procedural accommodations to increase rehabilitation benefit.

TL;DR: Cognitive function, nutritional status, preinjury functional level, and depression were the most important prognostic factors associated with rehabilitation success of older patients with proximal hip fracture.

TL;DR: The available evidence is limited, but relevant for clinicians and future studies should be preferably multicentered, and use an international classification of the variables of exercise therapy and an ICF core set for NMD in order to improve comparability of results.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that MRE can quantitate asymmetries in muscle tone that could previously only be identified subjectively by examination.

TL;DR: The attentional strategy and the combination of a rhythmic auditory cue with an Attentional strategy were equally effective, and improved walking speed and step amplitude significantly during both single and dual tasks.