Abstract Stroke rehabilitation has undergone a revolution over the last three decades. Cohort studies have consistently reinforced the importance of post-stroke rehabilitation to stimulate recovery, but the concepts of empirical…
Abstract Recovery of motor function after stroke occurs largely on the basis of a sustained capacity of the adult brain for plastic changes. This brain plasticity has been validated by…
Abstract In stroke patients with severe persistent neurological deficits, alternative therapeutic modalities are limited. Stem cell therapy might be an opportunity when the safety profile of this approach will be…
Abstract Today, administering rTPA thrombolytic therapy within the first hours of a stroke is the only validated drug therapy for improving the spontaneous – and most of the time incomplete – recovery…
Abstract Being able to predict an individual’s potential for recovery of motor function after stroke may facilitate the use of more effective targeted rehabilitation strategies, and management of patient expectations…
1 English version For a long time we thought all was lost. The 20th century was dominated by Ramon y Cajal dogma: neurogenesis does not occur in the adult mammalian…
Abstract Objective To study the applicability and responsiveness of the motor function measure (total score and sub-scores D1, D2 and D3) in patients with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. Patients and methods Two…
1 English version 1.1 Introduction Associated or not with latissimus dorsi injuries, teres major injuries occur only rarely. Few cases have been described in the literature and they have generally…
1 English version 1.1 Introduction The daytime hospitalization (DH [HDJ, in French]) sectors of specialized follow-up care and rehabilitation (FCR [SSR, in French]) services treat patients requiring the intervention of…
1 English version 1.1 Introduction Though a rare occurrence, epidural lipomatosis (EL) is a possible cause of back pain. It is characterized by an accumulation of normal, unencapsulated fat in…
