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Respiratory and muscular effects of a physiotherapy protocol carried out during hemodialysis in individuals with chronic renal failure: preliminary results.

open access: yesMotriz: Revista de Educacao Fisica, 2020
Aim: To analyze whether the proposed physiotherapy protocol during hemodialysis (HD) increases knee extensor muscle strength, palmar grip strength, respiratory muscle strength, lung function, and functional capacity of individuals with Chronic Renal ...
Mayara Simões   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Grip and muscle strength dynamometry in acute burn injury: Evaluation of an updated assessment protocol [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
External stabilization is reported to improve reliability of hand held dynamometry, yet this has not been tested in burns. We aimed to assess the reliability of dynamometry using an external system of stabilization in people with moderate burn injury and
Edgar, Dale W   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Hospital Readmission After Traumatic Brain Injury Hospitalization in Community‐Dwelling Older Adults

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To examine the risk of hospital readmission after an index hospitalization for TBI in older adults. Methods Using data from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study, we used propensity score matching of individuals with an index TBI‐related hospitalization to individuals with (1) non‐TBI hospitalizations (primary analysis)
Rachel Thomas   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sarcopenia defined by the global leadership initiative in sarcopenia (GLIS) consensus predicts adverse postoperative outcomes in patients undergoing radical gastrectomy for gastric cancer: analysis from a prospective cohort study

open access: yesBMC Cancer
Background Global Leadership Initiative in Sarcopenia (GLIS) has recently established a conceptional definition of sarcopenia, which incorporated muscle strength, mass, and muscle-specific strength as three components of sarcopenia.
Gao-Feng Wu   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Is total muscle strength related to pelvic floor muscle strength in young women?

open access: yesABCS Health Sciences
Introduction: The intravaginal examination is an important part of the pelvic floor muscle (PFM) functional assessment. However, women sometimes refuse to submit to this procedure due to being embarrassed.
Thaís Passos de Oliveira   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effect of Gender, Disease Duration and Treatment on Muscle Strength in Myasthenia Gravis. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2016
The aim of this observational, cross-sectional study was to quantify the potential presence of muscle weakness among patients with generalized myasthenia gravis (gMG).
Gülsenay Citirak   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Work of the Alien Property Custodian [PDF]

open access: yes, 1945
The aim of the thesis was to investigate deficits and compensatory strategies after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) in different conditions during gait and quiet standing.
Myron, Paul V.
core   +1 more source

Patients with ALS show highly correlated progression rates in left and right limb muscles. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
ObjectiveAmyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) progresses at different rates between patients, making clinical trial design difficult and dependent on large cohorts of patients.
Allred, Peggy   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Super‐Refractory Status Epilepticus (SRSE) in a Patient With Compound Heterozygous OPA1 Variants: Case Report and Literature Review

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Super‐Refractory Status Epilepticus (SRSE) is a rare, life‐threatening neurological emergency with unclear etiology in many cases. Mitochondrial dysfunction, often due to disease‐causing genetic variants, is increasingly recognized as a cause, with each gene producing distinct pathophysiological mechanisms.
Pouria Mohammadi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

ALS With and Without Upper Motor Neuron Signs: A Comparative Study Supporting the Gold Coast Criteria

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective The Gold Coast criteria permit diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) even without upper motor neuron (UMN) signs. However, whether ALS patients with UMN signs (ALSwUMN) and those without (ALSwoUMN) share similar characteristics and prognoses remains unclear.
Hee‐Jae Jung   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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