abstract：:A standardized method of obtaining distal motor latencies of the medial and lateral plantar nerves over fixed distances with temperature correction in 37 normal subjects is presented. The posterior tibial nerve was supramaximally stimulated 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14cm proximal to the active electrode over the motor point of...

journal_title：Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation

authors： Fu R,DeLisa JA,Kraft GH

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of exercise training on reinnervating rat muscle histochemistry. Adult female Wistar rats in 5 groups (1 control and 4 experimental) underwent bilateral sciatic nerve crush. The 4 experimental groups were exercised on a motorized treadmill at 35% grade and a speed o...

journal_title：Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation

authors： Herbison GJ,Jaweed MM,Ditunno JF

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serial nerve conduction studies were done in 5 patients with Guillain-Barre syndrome, 4 of whom were recovering and 1 who did not recover. In a total of 20 paired studies, the nerve conduction velocity deteriorated in spite of improvement in distal and proximal latencies in 5 cases, and nerve conduction velocity impro...

journal_title：Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation

authors： Kim S

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the use of conventional therapeutic techniques, increasing kyphosis, chest restriction and worsening burn scar hypertrophy occurred in a 9-year-old boy with burn trauma. In an attempt to alleviate these problems a device consisting of a plastizote molded 2-piece body jacket which incorporates a full neck and c...

journal_title：Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation

authors： Becker BE

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This investigation studied the effectiveness of in-hospital, individual counseling on the psychosocial adjustment of patients with newly diagnosed gynecologic malignancies. Levels of psychologic distress, sexual functioning, and return to employment were assessed at 3, 6, and 12 months after counseling. The counseled ...

journal_title：Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation

authors： Capone MA,Good RS,Westie KS,Jacobson AF

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the relationship between isokinetic and isometric torque, maximum voluntary contractions were elicited from 352 male volunteers. Knee extensors, knee flexors, elbow extensors, and elbow flexors were tested isometrically and at isokinetic velocities of 30 degrees/sec, 90 degrees/sec, and 180 degrees/sec on a m...

journal_title：Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation

authors： Knapik JJ,Ramos MU

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the efficacy and function of emg feedback (emgFB) in muscle reeducation, skeletal muscle contractions with and without emgFB were compared under controlled experimental conditions in human subjects with paresis due to brain damage (n=6) or peripheral nervous system damage (n=6). Each subject was instructed...

journal_title：Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation

authors： Middaugh SJ,Miller MC

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The blink reflex may be elicited in the orbicularis oculi following electrical stimulus to the periorbital regions. It consists of a direct early component (R1) and a late component (R2) which is both direct and consensual. The amplitudes of R1 and R2 are reduced and the latencies normal in patients with lesions affec...

journal_title：Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation

authors： Kaplan PE,Kaplan C

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For this study of intractable pain after spinal cord injury (SCI), a questionnaire was developed, pilot-tested and mailed to 356 previously hospitalized SCI patients, 200 (56%) of whom returned the completed questionnaire. Of the respondents, 160 (80%) reported abnormal sensation and 96 (48%) called the discomfort pai...

journal_title：Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation

authors： Nepomuceno C,Fine PR,Richards JS,Gowens H,Stover SL,Rantanuabol U,Houston R

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several nations currently share a major concern for provision of services to severely disabled persons. The focus of this concern has been upon those services which promote maximum integration and independence of severely disabled individuals in the community. Recent efforts in this direction by governments, private c...

journal_title：Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation

authors： Tate DG,Jarvis RL,Juhr GD

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a degenerative neurologic disease having both upper and lower motor neuron signs and symptoms. When the speech musculature is involved, a mixed dysarthria and dysphagia usually result. In a 49-year-old man with ALS, dysarthria and dysphagia progressed from mild to severe forms ov...

journal_title：Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation

authors： Dworkin JP,Hartman DE

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mechanical electrode inserter was used to allow reproducible electromyographic (emg) electrode insertions. The electrical activity provoked by the mechanical insertion was recorded and quantitatively analyzed in the anterior tibialis, the extensor hallucis longus, and the extensor digitorum brevis of unimpaired huma...

journal_title：Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation

authors： Wiechers DO

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighteen women, all of whom had extensive but noninformative breast evaluations, including 10 mammograms and 4 biopies, were successfully treated by cervical traction for chronic breast pain. Each patient had distinct clinical or electromyographic evidence of cervical root compromise. Fifteen had roentgenographic evid...

journal_title：Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation

authors： LaBan MM,Meerschaert JR,Taylor RS

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twelve patients with spinal cord injuries were studied to determine whether the anal sphincter could be used as an index of urethral sphincter activity and to determine the bladder and striated sphincter response to anal and rectal stimulation. Electromyogram (emg) needle electrodes were placed in the external urethra...

journal_title：Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation

authors： Rodriquez AA,Awad E

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Empirical data on attitudes toward sexual behavior of disabled persons were gathered from a written, sentence-completion task in which 110 college students engaged. The task consisted of 36 sentence stubs, 18 of which probed attitudes toward sex. To facilitate expression of attitudes rather than values, respondents we...

journal_title：Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation

authors： Haring M,Meyerson L

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The funiculi of the median nerve at the wrist carrying the motor and sensory fibers innervating the hand were described in 1945 by Sunderland after an extensive anatomic study. In an attempt to confirm clinically the findings of that study, 7 patients with partial median nerve laceration at the wrist are presented. Th...

journal_title：Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation

authors： Perotto AO,Delagi EF

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of 8 weeks of circuit strength training (CST) followed by 8 weeks of jogging and then 8 weeks, of CST or jogging. During the final 8 weeks, the subjects were randomly assigned to either CST or jogging groups. The subjects (n=16, x age = 29 yrs) exercised 3 days/we...

journal_title：Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation

authors： Gettman LR,Ayres JJ,Pollock ML,Durstine JL,Grantham W

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated the effectiveness of the ROHO Balloon Wheelchair Cushion in distributing pressure on the skin over the ischial tuberosities in healthy subjects. Surface skin temperatures over the ischial tuberosities and thighs of the subjects were also measured. Pressure recordings were obtained by placing a pre...

journal_title：Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation

authors： Fisher SV,Kosiak M

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the occurrence of a neurologic verus a vascular component of thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS), ulnar nerve function via the F wave was studied in 16 patients with clinically diagnosed TOS and 38 control subjects. To simplify the procedure the following formula was developed, through multiple regression analysi...

journal_title：Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation

authors： Weber RJ,Piero DL

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eleven subjects reacted to a randomly timed auditory stimulus by extending their right elbows as rapidly as possible under agonist muscle normal state, pretensed and relaxed conditions. Integrated electromyography (emg) was used to validate and quantify muscle state. Total reaction time was divided into premotor react...

journal_title：Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation

authors： Ward T

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As epidurography uses a water-soluble contrast medium in the diagnosis of disc lesions, this procedure can be repeated, unlike conventional myelography which uses an oily contrast medium. Successful employment of epidurography before and after traction in 14 cases of adult prolapsed intervertebral disc syndrome is des...

journal_title：Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation

authors： Gupta RC,Ramarao SV

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An easily performed and reproducible method is described for the antidromic determination of conduction velocity in the saphenous nerve. Eighty nerves were studied in 40 healthy subjects and the mean values obtained were as follows: latency 3.6 +/- 0.4 msec, conduction velocity 41.7 +/- 3.4 m/sec, amplitude 9.0 muV. T...

journal_title：Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation

authors： Wainapel SF,Kim DJ,Ebel A

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following shoulder arthrography to establish the diagnosis of adhesive capsulitis, we injected steroids via the in situ arthrogram needle. Subsequent intraarticular steroids, if needed, were given at the outpatient clinic using landmarks established at the time of arthrography. Out of 18 patients treated, function suf...

journal_title：Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation

authors： Weiss JJ,Ting YM

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since much of medical rehabilitation is actually training which is focused on helping the patient and/or his/her family become active in the patient's daily care, the addition of the educational frame of reference can make rehabilitation professionals more effective. A recommended model for patient-family education ha...

journal_title：Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation

authors： Anderson TP

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient underwent tracheo-esophageal anastomosis following repeated episodes of aspiration pneumonia after the resection of a meningioma at foramen magnum. The surgery eliminated the intractable problem with aspiration. This procedure is reversible, and restoration of the laryngeal function can be accomplished when ...

journal_title：Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation

authors： Hongladarom T,Lindeman RC

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors' philosophy and regimen of treatment, based on experience with 103 pressure ulcers in 75 patients, are presented. This experience illustrates that the problem of pressure ulcers can be managed well by the application of sound surgical principles in a community hospital with a rehabilitation unit. With some...

journal_title：Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation

authors： Herceg SJ,Harding RL

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study attempted to measure whether immediate videotape feedback would improve the degree of motor learning and ambulation performances of amputee patients. Twelve amputee patients were randomly assigned either to a control or to an experimental group. Subjects in the experimental group were videotaped during four...

journal_title：Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation

authors： Alexander J,Goodrich R

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data were gathered from interviews conducted by the investigators with 145 spinal cord injured outpatients from the Veterans Administration Hospital, Bronx, NY. The index of Sexual Adjustment was developed based on factors such as adaptation to sexual limitations, partner satisfaction, sexual self-concept, and regular...

journal_title：Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation

authors： Berkman AH,Weissman R,Frielich MH

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this investigation was to assess the relationship among selected physican and cardiorespiratory variables in active men, aged 40-59 years. Thirty-one subjects who had been running for only an average of five years volunteered for treadmill testing, running to volitional exhaustion. For the total group (...

journal_title：Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation

authors： Schmidt MN,Wrenn JP,Vlahov E

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various measures of evoked brain potential abnormality (EPA) were correlated with disability ratings (DR) for 35 brain-damaged patients. EPA data consisted of judgements of abnormality of ipsilateral, contralateral and bilateral responses to auditory and visual stimuli reflecting activity in the brain stem, subcortex ...

journal_title：Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation

authors： Rappaport M,Hall K,Hopkins K,Belleza T,Berrol S,Reynolds G

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of patients with amputations were investigated to determine the effect on gait of increasing the mass of the prosthetic foot. Weights of 113.4 and 226.8 gm (4 and 8 oz) were added and gait parameters observed. No changes were noted as the result of the extra foot mass. ...

journal_title：Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation

authors： Godfrey CM,Brett R,Jousse AT

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine effects of severe muscular dystrophy on the performance of dynamic exercise, cardiorespiratory responses to incremental work on a bicycle ergometer and isokinetic limb strength measurements were compared for 13 dystrophic boys and 13 normal, untrained boys. The dystrophic boys (D) were matched to the norm...

journal_title：Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation

authors： Sockolov R,Irwin B,Dressendorfer RH,Bernauer EM

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine severely depressed spinal cord-injured patients, six quadriplegic and three paraplegis, required psychiatric consultations and were treated with amitriptyline, with particular attention to the speed of response. The degree of depression was rated by using an Emergency Depression Rating Scale for Plegic Patients d...

journal_title：Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation

authors： Kim SP,Davis SW,Sell GH

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The history, physical examination and laboratory data are presented of a patient with multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus erythematosus. The rehabilitation medicine evaluation and course of therapy are reviewed. Other published cases of similar patients are reviewed. ...

journal_title：Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation

authors： Kaplan PE,Betts HB

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred thirteen medical schools which offered full degree programs were identified and surveyed by questionnaires to obtain information which identified the existence, characteristics and involvement of physical medicine or rehabilitation medicine programs. The survey also attempted to identify specific changes w...

journal_title：Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation

authors： Lehmann JF,Feinberg SD,Warren CG

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new above-knee prosthetic mechanism with synchronous motions of the knee and ankle has been designed based on kinematic principles. Knee flexion is synchronized with ankle dorsiflexion by a synchronizer rod and lever. Unlike other above-knee units, the knee joint is aligned about one inch in front of a line between ...

journal_title：Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation

authors： Li WK

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Performance records of 22 extremely obese adult patients undergoing physical rehabilitation in a multi-disciplinary program were used to devise three progressive training protocols to which patients can be individually assigned. These protocols include "fastest pace" walking and jogging and are designed to rehabilitat...

journal_title：Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation

authors： Foss ML,Lampman RM,Schteingart D

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three different kinds of low-level exercise (one arm and two leg exercises) and a low-level treadmill test were designed for patients recovering from acute myocardial infarction; noninvasive circulatory and aerobic responses to these activities were evaluated in healthy subjects. Exercise systolic pressure-rate produc...

journal_title：Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation

authors： Lerman J,Bruce RA,Sivarajan E,Pettet GE,Trimble S

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has not been delineated how a disabled person is viewed when interacting with another person. The present study investigated subject perception of a counselor in a wheelchair who was seen in a video-taped counseling interview. Subject degree of body satisfaction was measured to assess the importance of this variabl...

journal_title：Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation

authors： Mitchell JC

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper outlines a suggested protocol for community exercise programs for the rehabilitation of patients with coronary heart disease. Information presented is based on more than seven years of experience gained by the Cardio-Pulmonary Research Institute through programs in Seattle, Mercer Island, and Yakima, WA, an...

journal_title：Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation

authors： Pyfer HR,Mead WF,Frederick RC,Docne BL

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00