A stroke is a global healthcare problem. Yearly, millions of people around the globe suffer from stroke and its consequences. Most post-stroke patients have upper extremity impairment. Several systems for upper limb rehabilitation exist on the market and with the advances in technology, new rehabilitation approaches were introduced, including some ...
Published in Medicine
Background: Oropharyngeal dysphagia is a common disorder after stroke. Physical therapy has been widely used in the rehabilitation of patients with dysphagia after stroke. Due to the lack of randomized trials directly comparing the efficacy of various physical therapies directly, the relative efficacy of these methods is difficult to determined. Th...
Published in Medicine
Background: Post-stroke dysphagia (PSD) requires effective treatment as it may cause aspiration pneumonia, dehydration, or malnutritution, which can increase the length of hospital stay as well as mortality. In the field of stroke, electroacupuncture (EA) has been widely used, and a number of clinical research papers have been published regarding i...
Published in Medicine
Background: Urinary incontinence (UI) is still a persistent challenge in many stroke survivors, affecting the quality of life and emotional being of these individuals. Numerous studies have demonstrated the curative effect of electroacupuncture on post-stroke incontinence, however they were mired with questionable quality and inconsistencies in saf...
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Background: Stroke is the primary cause of adult disability in China, which causes serious personal, family, and social burden. “Central peripheral central” closed-loop rehabilitation theory is proved to be an effective neural rehabilitation model. Based on this theory, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) combined with magnetic stim...
Published in Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open
Background Although strokes are rare in trauma patients, they are associated with worse functional and cognitive outcomes and decreased mobility. Blunt cerebrovascular injury (BCVI)–related strokes and mortality have decreased, likely due to refined screening and treatment algorithms in trauma literature; however, there is a paucity of research add...
Published in Cureus
Objectives To determine the neurological manifestations in AIDS patients with a recent diagnosis. Materials and methods A descriptive, retrospective study was carried out on 82 patients, admitted to the University Hospital in Curitiba for a period of 30 months, with positive serology for HIV, using the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) met...
Published in BMJ open
Cervical artery dissection, including carotid and vertebral artery dissection, is an important cause of stroke in the young. Risk of developing cervical artery dissection has been associated with physical activity in various forms and has been presumed to be related to minor trauma and mechanical stretching of the cervical arteries. This systematic...
Published in BMJ open
Stroke is one of the common causes of mortality, morbidity and years of life lost worldwide. Baseline research on stroke epidemiology, prevention, acute and rehabilitative interventions in Africa is necessary to approach specific contexts and regional circumstances. Most studies on stroke have been conducted in high-income countries. This protocol ...
Uvod: Možganska kap predstavlja eno od najpomembnejših epidemioloških težav razvitega sveta, ki iz leta v leto narašča. Je še vedno med glavnimi vzroki smrtonosnosti, predvsem pa trajne prizadetosti pri odraslih. Za uspešno rehabilitacijo pacientov po možganski kapi je pomembno dobro sodelovanje zdravstvenih strokovnjakov, pacienta in njegove druži...
