Objective Post-stroke medical management, defined by national and international guidelines, involves many professionals, allowing optimal secondary prevention. The general practitioner is as a major player in this management. The improved…
Objective Stroke is a leading cause of adult long-term disability. The functional outcomes have been much studied but the impact on quality of life (QOL) is little known especially in…
Objective The purpose of this study was to examine the accuracy of severals accelorometers commonly used in post stroke studies to estimate the total energy expenditure (TEE) over activities of…
Objective Physical activity (PA) and exercise are two successful approaches to reduce sedentary behavior and risk managing in stroke patients. The aims of the study are to evaluate PA and…
Objective To explore changes in muscle architectural parameters of the muscle-tendon unit of soleus and medial gastrocnemius (GM) in patients with chronic hemiparesis, after 1 year of rehabilitation. Material/Patients and methods…
Objective The positive effects on motor cortical excitability of stimulating proprioception with tendon vibration therapy have previously been reported in healthy individuals and in chronic stroke patient (Marconi et al.,…
Objective In spastic hemiparesis, quantify agonist recruitment of tibialis anterior and triceps surae spastic cocontraction during swing phase of gait. Material/Patients and methods Thirty-seven subjects with chronic hemiparesis (49 ±…
Objective The sensori-motor impairment of upper limb (UL) affects more than 50% of patients after stroke. The objective of this work was to study the efficiency of isokinetic muscle strengthening…
Objective The aim of this study was to compare the analgesic effectiveness of 1 month injection after botulinum toxin in the pectoralis major muscle or subscapularis. Material/Patients and methods In this…
Objective It is well known that people with hemiparesis after stroke have asymmetric weight bearing (WB) when standing and during sit-to-stand (STS). However, few studies have quantified the WB perception…
