Spastic co-contractions of hemiparetic patients: Which rehabilitation to improve gait?

Apr 20, 2017 by in PHYSICAL MEDICINE & REHABILITATION Comments Off on Spastic co-contractions of hemiparetic patients: Which rehabilitation to improve gait?

Objective During rehabilitation of hemiparetic patients, physiotherapists face a discrepancy between motor skills during analytical exercises and functional abilities observed during gait. A muscle recruitment difference in the two situations…

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Evaluation of the Sensewear Armband to assess the total energy expenditure of activities of the daily living in stroke survivors

Apr 20, 2017 by in PHYSICAL MEDICINE & REHABILITATION Comments Off on Evaluation of the Sensewear Armband to assess the total energy expenditure of activities of the daily living in stroke survivors

Objective The accuracy of accelerometers in assessment of the total Energy Expenditure (TEE) in activities of daily living is discuted. Sensewear Armband (SWA) a multi-sensor device appears as the most…

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Effect of visual feedback on speech recovery and language plasticity in patients with post-stroke non-fluent aphasia. Functional MRI assessment

Apr 20, 2017 by in PHYSICAL MEDICINE & REHABILITATION Comments Off on Effect of visual feedback on speech recovery and language plasticity in patients with post-stroke non-fluent aphasia. Functional MRI assessment

Objective To assess the efficiency of Visual Feedback (VF) on language recovery and plasticity in three chronic non-fluent aphasic patients. VF is based on language-action interaction, thus, language skills are…

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Accelerometers are they accurate for the estimation of total energy expenditure over activities of daily living in stroke survivors?

Apr 20, 2017 by in PHYSICAL MEDICINE & REHABILITATION Comments Off on Accelerometers are they accurate for the estimation of total energy expenditure over activities of daily living in stroke survivors?

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…

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