Notarstefano, Chiara Bertolucci, Federica Miccoli, Mario Posteraro, Federico
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Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences
Purpose This study aims to describe the functional status of a cohort of subacute COVID-19 patients treated in a dedicated rehabilitation unit and to compare functional outcomes between patients previously hospitalized in the intensive care unit (ICU group) and patients assisted in the medical care unit (MCU group). Materials and methods Clinical a...
Cohn, Brian A. Valero-Cuevas, Francisco J.
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Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences
Animals must control numerous muscles to produce forces and movements with their limbs. Current theories of motor optimization and synergistic control are predicated on the assumption that there are multiple highly diverse feasible activations for any motor task (“muscle redundancy”). Here, we demonstrate that the dimensionality of the neuromuscula...
Hlayisi, Vera-Genevey Sekoto, Lieketseng Victoria
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Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences
Introduction The provision of holistic person and family-centered care in the audiological rehabilitation of adolescents and young adults (AYA) requires in-depth consideration of identity construction. The purpose of this research study was to describe the lived experience of identity construction among deaf AYA. The thoughts, perceptions, and feel...
Bolbocean, Corneliu
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Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences
Neto, Ricardo Bezerra Duarte Reis, Luis Felipe Fonseca Ferreira, Arthur de Sá Alexandre, Dângelo José de Andrade Almeida, Renato Santos de
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Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences
Background The acute clinical repercussions of SARS-CoV-2 infection have been widely studied. However, the possible late repercussions of long COVID have not yet been well defined in the literature.Objectives To identify the presence of pain and musculoskeletal disability in patients with Long COVID and also to identify predictive factors for pain ...
Tang, Ada Leung, Ada W. S.
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Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences
Hinckley, Jacqueline Jayes, Mark
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Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences
Shared decision-making is a fundamental aspect of person-centered care, and can and should be part of many different aspects of the rehabilitation process. Communication disabilities like aphasia, which affects people's ability to use and understand spoken and written language, can make shared decision-making especially challenging to the resources...
Pereira, Carla S. Klauznicer, Jasenko Maree, Dustin McAuliffe, Sean Farooq, Abdulaziz Whiteley, Rod Finni, Taija
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Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences
Introduction Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries cause knee instability, knee pain, weight-bearing adjustments, and functional deficits but their association to patellar tendon quality is unknown. Our purpose was to investigate quadriceps strength, patellar tendon quality, relative load exposure, perceived knee stability, knee pain, extension...
Omar, Zaliha Binti Kagaya, Hitoshi Mac Donell, Christine
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Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences
Arnold, Dirk Thielker, Jovanna Klingner, Carsten M. Guntinas-Lichius, Orlando Volk, Gerd Fabian
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Introduction Although many different treatments were developed for facial palsy, only a few therapeutic options are available for facial synkinesis. Electrical stimulation of specific muscles via implants could be useful in restoring facial symmetry in synkinetic patients. A challenge in developing stimulation devices is finding the right stimulati...
