Efficacy of RehaCom cognitive rehabilitation software in activities of daily living,attention and response control in chronic stroke patients

BackgroundOur world is unfortunately facing a huge number of stroke. Attention, response control and activities of daily living (ADL) are important cognitive functions affected by stroke. In line with this explanation, we aimed to investigate the effect of RehaCom rehabilitation software on ADL, attention and response control in chronic stroke patients with damage to middle and anterior cerebral arteries.MethodFor selecting participants, among chronic stroke patients who referred to our special rehabilitation clinic for patients with stroke, fifty patients selected. Participants were assigned to control (n = 25) and experimental (n = 25) groups. The experimental group was compared with the control group before and after using RehaCom (ten 45-min sessions in five weeks).ResultsThere is a significant enhancement in ADL, attention and response control scores in the experimental group compared with the control group. In fact, treatment with RehaCom significantly improved the score of all studied variables in chronic stroke patients.ConclusionsIn conclusion, RehaCom cognitive rehabilitation software has improvement effect on ADL, attention and response control in patients with chronic stroke. Our study reveals a new information about the efficacy of computerized training in the rehabilitation of stroke patients.     

Establishment of a novel rehabilitation program for patients with dropped head syndrome: Short and intensive rehabilitation (SHAiR) program

The pathophysiology of dropped head syndrome (DHS) remains unknown, and its treatment algorithm and indication are not standardized. Here, we established a novel rehabilitation program, short and intensive rehabilitation program for DHS (SHAiR program), consisting of cervical paraspinal muscles exercise, range of motion exercise, cervical and thoracic mobilization, deep cervical flexor muscle exercise, hip lift exercise, anterior pelvic tilt exercise, and walking exercise. The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical effectiveness of this program. We reviewed clinical outcomes for five consecutive patients with DHS who underwent the SHAiR program (SHAiR group). The outcomes were compared with those of other five patients with DHS who received exercise instruction (control group). Demographic data, the duration from onset of DHS, the apex of sagittal kyphosis on the lateral radiographs, and clinical outcomes including the ability to maintain normal horizontal gaze, chin brow vertical angle, and numerical rating scale (NRS) were evaluated at the initial visit and final follow-up at 7.5 months. There was no significant difference between the two groups in terms of demographic and radiographic data. The ability of horizontal gaze and NRS of cervical pain improved rapidly for all five patients in the SHAiR group as compared to no improvement for all patients in the control group. Rehabilitation for DHS was considered effective not only for localized rehabilitation such as exercise for training cervical extensor muscle function but also exercises for thoracolumbar posture improvement and the psoas muscle.     

早期康复护理和功能锻炼在骨创伤患者术后的应用效果

目的探究早期康复护理和功能锻炼应用于骨创伤患者术后效果。方法选取2018年1月—12月本院收治的60例骨创伤手术患者,随机分成观察组与对照组,各组30例。对照组患者接受常规护理,观察组患者实施术后康复护理及功能锻炼。对比两组护理效果。结果观察组的骨折愈合时长与住院时长都短于对照组,差异有统计学意义(P<0.05)。干预6个月后的,观察组的焦虑评分、抑郁评分、疼痛评分以及总分都优于对照组,差异有统计学意义(P<0.05)。结论针对骨创伤手术患者,应用术后康复护理与功能锻炼,可以有效加快患者骨折愈合速度,减轻患者的关节疼痛,促进尽快恢复关节功能,效果突出,推动患者尽早恢复健康。     

Description of novel instrumented analysis of the Four Square Step Test with clinical application: A pilot study

BackgroundFalls are a common problem for adults in the United States raising concerns about injuries and the resulting economic burden. As a result, it is critical to develop objective measures to assess dynamic balance and the track progress related to interventions or disease progression over time.Research QuestionAre there differences in balance between individuals in the community, individuals post-stroke, persons with Multiple Sclerosis (MS), and individuals living with Parkinson’s Disease (PD) as measured with a new instrumented Four Square Step Test (i-FSST)?MethodsThe i-FSST was utilized to assess dynamic balance in 41 individuals (11 community dwelling adults and 10 individuals in each group of persons post stroke, with PD, and with MS). Outcome data including the overall duration of the FSST as well unique temporal-spatial stepping patterns through the test, timing of transitions between each quadrant, and the time in each quadrant prior to transitioning.ResultsOne-way ANOVAs were conducted to determine whether i-FSST duration, Over Double Support (ODS), and Changes in Main Support (CMS) differed by participants’ groups. There was a significant difference between groups in test Duration (F = 9.56, P = .000), ODS (F = 15.71, P = .001), and CMS (F = 7.03, P = .001). Further differences in these variables were found between various groups using Bonferroni post-hoc testing.SignificanceThe i-FSST is an innovative and potentially beneficial tool for quantitatively measuring the dynamics that occur in the traditional FSST including a general measure of dynamic balance as well as transition times and stability during the test. This technology can provide objective data on stability, weight shifting, and weight acceptance that may guide interventions and further assessment.     

A technical concept of a computer game for patients with Parkinson's disease – a new form of PC-based physiotherapy

Background: At present, there are no meaningful and sophisticated computer games that simultaneously allow the treatment of movement disorders such as Parkinson's syndrome. In particular, there are no systems to consider the severity of the disease and the physical skills of the patient.

Methods: A computer game using the Microsoft Kinect as markerless sensor for the 3?D recognition of the patient’s movement was developed to support the rehabilitation. The scenario of a basketball game was created after determining that the movement like throwing a ball and the correct posture of the body are important. A study based on system usability was performed with 15 patients to evaluate the system.

Results: The technical feasibility of a computer-assisted training system for supporting patients with Parkinson‘s disease has been demonstrated. No markers on the patient are required for movement detection and allow a user-friendly handling. Regarding the usability study, the patients were accepting of such a system and its at-home use and symptoms like ‘freezing’ and the Pisa syndrome can be treated.

Conclusions: The physiotherapist can be assisted by the developed rehabilitation system. An objective measurement of the patient’s training progress delivers valuable information to adjust the training sessions for every patient individually. Due to its modular character, the system can also be applied to other diseases or sports injuries and offers the basis for further development.     

早期介入中医传统康复疗法结合现代康复训练治疗脑卒中患者足下垂疗效观察

目的研究康复治疗脑卒中患者足下垂疗效。方法选我院急性脑卒中后足下垂患者60例。随机分2组,对照组常规治疗,实验组联合早期介入中医康复治疗,对比疗效。结果干预后,实验组治疗后Ashworth评分、神经功能缺损的评分及日常生活能力评分、生活质量评分均显著优于对照组,P<0.05。结论对脑卒中后足下垂患者施行早期中医传统治疗联合现代康复训练,康复效果显著。     

Paul Cololian (1869–1956) : membre de la Société Médico-Psychologique (1902) et fondateur de l’Union des Médecins Arméniens de Paris (1920) et de la Croix-Rouge Arménienne de Paris (1922) (Partie I)

Maksoud Boghos Cololian was born December 12, 1869 in Ortakeuy. It was a suburb of Constantinople. The young Maksoud Boghos was sent to the Armenian school of Berberian when he is expected to learn to read and write in. It was here he developed a taste for litterature and the knowledge of the French language thanks to a thorough instruction. When he completed his secondary schooling, he left Armenia for France. In September 1889, he registered at the faculty of medicine of Paris. Extern in 1891 then intern from the asylums of the Seine (1894), he was appointed doctor of medicine in 1898. Cololian acquired a deep knowledge of psychiatry under the direction of great specialists (Taguet, Briand, Magnan, Garnier). Member of the Société Médico-Psychologique in 1902, his happy memories of his non-residential internship in the department of Nicolas Augustin Gilbert (1858–1927) led him to practice general medicine. That is the speciality he dedicated to as a liberal, in Paris rue de Ponthieu, without forgetting his training in psychiatry. In the Rosenwald Book, his speciality was neuropsychiatry. Considering he was a former Ottoman subject and volunteer since the beginning of hostilities in 1914, Cololian became immediately naturalized French with the title of assistant major physician medical. He was appointed head physician of the physiotherapy centers of Versailles (VR 69 and 74), Grignon and the Officers’ Hospital at Versailles. Also, he named himself Paul. He took care of war-wounded and became a precursor in the field of mechano-therapeutic on one hand, and for the measurement of impotence and infirmities one the other hand. In 1918, Cololian was decorated with the Legion of Honor by Raymond Poincaré (1860–1934) himself. Several times laureate of the Academy of Medicine and the Institute, Cololian wrote articles or memories on semiology and psychiatric treatment. He was with P. Garnier the author of a treatise on therapeutics of mental and nervous diseases (1901). Author of chronic hunting in the newspaper “Le Figaro”, medical and scientific popularization in the review “Guérir” and “La Femme et l’Enfant” and too informal written in “Les Annales politiques et littéraires”, Cololian published various articles or analyzes on studies based on morbid psychological constitutions from characters in literature, plays, movies or politics (Emma Bovary, Marie Lafarge, Hitler…). In his psychiatric and psychoanalytic reading of Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Cololian asserted that the creator of Freudianism was Flaubert. Regarding psychoanalysis, he felt Freud's theory had been taken too far by the founder and mostly by his students.