Background: Performing a careful but effective mobilisation of the hemiplegic shoulder is essential for optimal muscle activation and to preserve the passive range of motion (PROM) needed to perform functional tasks.
Anke van Bladel +4 more
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Monitoring retinal changes with optical coherence tomography predicts neuronal loss in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. [PDF]
BACKGROUND:Retinal optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a clinical and research tool in multiple sclerosis, where it has shown significant retinal nerve fiber (RNFL) and ganglion cell (RGC) layer thinning, while postmortem studies have reported RGC loss.
Aktas, Orhan +18 more
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Magnetic resonance spectroscopy in migraine: what have we learned so far? [PDF]
Objective: To summarize and evaluate proton (H-1) and phosphorus (P-31) magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) findings in migraine. Methods: A thorough review of H-1 and/or P-31-MRS studies in any form of migraine published up to September 2011 ...
Achten, Eric +2 more
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Intraoperative neuromonitoring in thyroid and parathyroid surgery: indications and method
Intraoperative neuromonitoring finds widespread application in thyroid and parathyroid surgery, as a preventive method against laryngeal nerves injuries. Today it is possible to monitor the laryngeal nerve function in real time during an operation.
Viktor A. Makarin +10 more
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Transcriptome profiling reveals significant changes in the gastric muscularis externa with obesity that partially overlap those that occur with idiopathic gastroparesis [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Gastric emptying is impaired in patients with gastroparesis whereas it is either unchanged or accelerated in obese individuals. The goal of the current study was to identify changes in gene expression in the stomach muscularis that may be ...
Chen, Meng +7 more
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THE EFFICIENCY OF PHYSICAL THERAPY IN A CHILD WITH FACIAL PARESIS [PDF]
Paralysis is a disorder of the voluntary motor activity that can occur in quantitative terms by reducing the force, amplitude and speed parameters of the movement.
Marinela RAŢĂ
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IntroductionReaching movements in stroke patients are characterized by decreased amplitudes at the shoulder and elbow joints and greater displacements of the trunk, compared to healthy subjects.
Alicia Cuesta-Gómez +6 more
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Triple valve infective endocarditis - a late diagnosis [PDF]
Behcet\u27s disease is a systemic vasculitis of unknown aetiology with cardiac involvement as well as damage to other organs. Whether the sterile valvular inflammation which occurs in this autoimmune disease predisposes to bacterial adhesion and ...
Barbulescu, Andreea L. +10 more
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The “broken escalator” phenomenon: Vestibular dizziness interferes with locomotor adaptation [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Although vestibular lesions degrade postural control we do not know the relative contributions of the magnitude of the vestibular loss and subjective vestibular symptoms to locomotor adaptation.
Arshad, Q. +13 more
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Tatalaksana Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV) Posterior dengan Paresis Kanal Unilateral
Pendahuluan: Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) posterior dan paresis kanal unilateral merupakan dua kasus yang berbeda. BPPV menyebabkan gangguan keseimbangan perifer yang sering ditandai oleh sensasi pusing berputar dan bersifat sementara ...
Rini Yoan Nita
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