abstract：BACKGROUND:Current knowledge regarding the time course of aphasia recovery is based on observations limited to the first years after stroke. OBJECTIVE:The authors studied long-term outcome (25 years) of language in a patient with global aphasia. METHODS:A 37-year-old man with global aphasia from a large ischemic lesi...

journal_title：Neurorehabilitation and neural repair

authors： Smania N,Gandolfi M,Aglioti SM,Girardi P,Fiaschi A,Girardi F

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Autologous bone marrow mesenchymal cells that include stem cells (MSCs) are a clinically attractive cellular therapy option to try to treat severe spinal cord injury (SCI). OBJECTIVE:To study the possible value of MSCs injected intrathecally to enhance rehabilitation. METHODS:This case control, convenience...

journal_title：Neurorehabilitation and neural repair

authors： Kishk NA,Gabr H,Hamdy S,Afifi L,Abokresha N,Mahmoud H,Wafaie A,Bilal D

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:A variety of rehabilitation strategies have been tried in patients with chronic hemianopia and quadrantanopia. The authors compared 2 approaches of blind field exploration in those with recent onset of disease. METHODS:A total of 20 patients with visual field defects were studied between 3 and 24 weeks prima...

journal_title：Neurorehabilitation and neural repair

authors： Keller I,Lefin-Rank G

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:There are indications that perilesional and remote peripheral motor axons may degenerate after spinal cord injury (SCI). The authors investigated the magnitude and dependence on severity of SCI of this degeneration as well as whether motor axons so affected can recover. METHODS:The function of the peripheral...

journal_title：Neurorehabilitation and neural repair

authors： Van De Meent H,Hosman AJ,Hendriks J,Zwarts M,EM-SCI Study Group.,Schubert M

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) of the muscles underlying the pharynx and faucial pillars affects the excitability of corticobulbar projections in a frequency- and duration-specific manner. The anterior hyomandibular (submental) muscles are primary targets for the clinical application of NMES to ...

journal_title：Neurorehabilitation and neural repair

authors： Doeltgen SH,Dalrymple-Alford J,Ridding MC,Huckabee ML

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dual tasking can interfere with activity after stroke. OBJECTIVE:The authors examined the interactions between 3 different cognitive tasks and the swing and double-limb support (DLS) components of the gait cycle in community-dwelling individuals poststroke. METHODS:Acquisition of cognitive and gait data we...

journal_title：Neurorehabilitation and neural repair

authors： Plummer-D'Amato P,Altmann LJ,Behrman AL,Marsiske M

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Stroke patients manifest steering difficulties during walking, which may arise from an altered perception of visual motion. OBJECTIVE:To examine the ability of stroke patients to control their heading direction while walking in a virtual environment (VE) describing translational optic flows (OFs) expanding ...

journal_title：Neurorehabilitation and neural repair

authors： Lamontagne A,Fung J,McFadyen B,Faubert J,Paquette C

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study was to establish the minimal detectable change (MDC) and clinically important differences (CIDs) of the physical domains of the Stroke Impact Scale (SIS) and to assess the proportions of patients' change scores exceeding the MDC and CIDs after stroke rehabilitation. METHODS:Seventy...

journal_title：Neurorehabilitation and neural repair

authors： Lin KC,Fu T,Wu CY,Wang YH,Liu JS,Hsieh CJ,Lin SF

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hemiparetic gait following stroke requires substantial energy consumption, which would promote deconditioning and disability. Optimal modalities for decreasing this energy cost remain challenging. Excessive energy consumption, however, seems to be mainly due to extra positive muscle work to substantially lif...

journal_title：Neurorehabilitation and neural repair

authors： Massaad F,Lejeune TM,Detrembleur C

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Individuals with stroke often sustain bone loss on the hemiparetic side and are prone to fragility fractures. Exercise training may be a viable way to promote bone mineral density (BMD) and geometry in this population. OBJECTIVE:This was a pilot study to evaluate the effects of a 6-month treadmill exercise ...

journal_title：Neurorehabilitation and neural repair

authors： Pang MY,Lau RW

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Community-dwelling, chronic stroke survivors are at risk of falling during turning and are more likely to sustain a hip fracture when they fall. OBJECTIVE:This study quantifies kinematic differences between stroke survivors (mean +/- SD: 38.3 +/- 31.3 months post-stroke, 59.9 +/- 10.1 years of age), with (n...

journal_title：Neurorehabilitation and neural repair

authors： Hollands KL,Hollands MA,Zietz D,Wing AM,Wright C,van Vliet P

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Partnered tango dance can improve balance and gait in individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD). Partnered dance may allow these individuals to challenge balance more than nonpartnered dance. Alternatively, partnered practice could reduce balance gains because the participant may rely on the partner as a balance aid w...

journal_title：Neurorehabilitation and neural repair

authors： Hackney ME,Earhart GM

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Long-term use of a foot-drop stimulator applying functional electrical stimulation (FES) to the common peroneal nerve improves walking performance even when the stimulator is off. This "therapeutic" effect might result from neuroplastic changes. OBJECTIVE:To determine the effect of long-term use of a foot-d...

journal_title：Neurorehabilitation and neural repair

authors： Everaert DG,Thompson AK,Chong SL,Stein RB

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) is the "gold standard" assessment tool for characterizing impairments in persons with Parkinson's disease (PD); however, this scale's ability to predict functional capabilities across different functional tasks has not been adequately assessed in persons w...

journal_title：Neurorehabilitation and neural repair

authors： Song J,Fisher BE,Petzinger G,Wu A,Gordon J,Salem GJ

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:This study investigated the relative effects of distributed constraint-induced therapy (CIT) and bilateral arm training (BAT) on motor performance, daily function, functional use of the affected arm, and quality of life in patients with hemiparetic stroke. METHODS:A total of 60 patients were r...

journal_title：Neurorehabilitation and neural repair

authors： Lin KC,Chang YF,Wu CY,Chen YA

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:and purpose. Mental practice (MP), which involves cognitive rehearsal of physical movements, is a noninvasive, inexpensive method of enabling repetitive, task-specific practice (RTP). Recent, randomized controlled data suggest that MP, when combined with an RTP therapy program, increases affected arm use and...

journal_title：Neurorehabilitation and neural repair

authors： Page SJ,Szaflarski JP,Eliassen JC,Pan H,Cramer SC

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Selection of patients who are most and least likely to benefit from constraint-induced therapy (CIT) for the upper extremity is uncertain. OBJECTIVE:This study investigated demographic and clinical characteristics that may predict outcomes for a distributed form of CIT. METHODS:A group of 57 patients were ...

journal_title：Neurorehabilitation and neural repair

authors： Lin KC,Huang YH,Hsieh YW,Wu CY

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:. Mental practice through motor imagery improves subsequent motor performance and thus mental training is considered to be a potential tool in neuromotor rehabilitation. OBJECTIVE:. The authors investigated whether a circadian fluctuation of the motor imagery process occurs, which could be relevant in sched...

journal_title：Neurorehabilitation and neural repair

authors： Gueugneau N,Mauvieux B,Papaxanthis C

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent studies have proposed a role for robotic gait training in participants with acquired brain injury, but the effects on the excitability of cortical and spinal neurons even in healthy participants are uncertain. OBJECTIVE:To investigate changes in corticospinal excitability in healthy participants afte...

journal_title：Neurorehabilitation and neural repair

authors： Blicher JU,Nielsen JF

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Functional electrical stimulation (FES) allows active exercises in stroke patients with upper extremity paralysis. OBJECTIVE:To investigate the effect of motor training with FES on motor recovery in acute and subacute stroke patients with severe to complete arm and/or hand paralysis. METHODS:For this pilot...

journal_title：Neurorehabilitation and neural repair

authors： Mangold S,Schuster C,Keller T,Zimmermann-Schlatter A,Ettlin T

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Conventional methods of rehabilitation in patients with chronic, severe motor impairments after stroke usually do not lessen paresis. OBJECTIVE:A novel therapeutic approach (assisted movement with enhanced sensation [AMES]) was employed in a medical device phase I clinical trial to reduce paresis and spasti...

journal_title：Neurorehabilitation and neural repair

authors： Cordo P,Lutsep H,Cordo L,Wright WG,Cacciatore T,Skoss R

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Walking speed is a cardinal indicator of poststroke gait performance; however, no consensus exists regarding the optimal treatment method(s) for its enhancement. The most widely accepted criterion for establishing the contribution of treatment to walking speed is the gain in speed. The actual speed, however, at...

journal_title：Neurorehabilitation and neural repair

authors： Dickstein R

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Recent reports have indicated that bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs) have the potential to improve neurological function when transplanted into models of central nervous system (CNS) disorders, including traumatic spinal cord injury. In this study, the authors aimed to clarify the underlying mechanism through...

journal_title：Neurorehabilitation and neural repair

authors： Shichinohe H,Kuroda S,Tsuji S,Yamaguchi S,Yano S,Lee JB,Kobayashi H,Kikuchi S,Hida K,Iwasaki Y

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Functional neuroimaging studies show adaptive changes in areas adjacent and distant from the stroke. This longitudinal study assessed whether changes in cortical excitability in affected and unaffected motor areas after acute stroke correlates with functional and motor recovery. METHODS:We studied 13 patien...

journal_title：Neurorehabilitation and neural repair

authors： Manganotti P,Acler M,Zanette GP,Smania N,Fiaschi A

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Suppression of activity in the contralesional motor cortex may promote recovery of function after stroke. Furthermore, the known depressant effects of low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) can be increased and prolonged by preceding it with 6-Hz priming stimulation. OBJECTIVE:The...

journal_title：Neurorehabilitation and neural repair

authors： Carey JR,Evans CD,Anderson DC,Bhatt E,Nagpal A,Kimberley TJ,Pascual-Leone A

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The assessment of rehabilitation efficacy in spinal cord injury (SCI) should be based on a combination of neurological and functional outcome measures. The Spinal Cord Independence Measure II (SCIM II) is an independence scale that was specifically developed for subjects with SCI. However, little is known ab...

journal_title：Neurorehabilitation and neural repair

authors： Wirth B,van Hedel HJ,Kometer B,Dietz V,Curt A

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cortical networks underlying motor imagery are functionally close to motor performance networks and can be activated by patients with severe motor disabilities. OBJECTIVE:The aim of the study was to examine the longitudinal effect of progressive motoneuron degeneration on cortical representation of motor im...

journal_title：Neurorehabilitation and neural repair

authors： Lulé D,Diekmann V,Kassubek J,Kurt A,Birbaumer N,Ludolph AC,Kraft E

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A randomized clinical has shown the effectiveness of intramuscular electrical stimulation for the treatment of poststroke shoulder pain. OBJECTIVE:Identify predictors of treatment success and assess the impact of the strongest predictor on outcomes. METHOD:This is a secondary analysis of a multisite random...

journal_title：Neurorehabilitation and neural repair

authors： Chae J,Ng A,Yu DT,Kirsteins A,Elovic EP,Flanagan SR,Harvey RL,Zorowitz RD,Fang ZP

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Research has shown that movement impairments following stroke are typically associated with the limb contralateral to the side of the stroke. Prior studies identified ipsilateral motor declines across a variety of tasks. OBJECTIVE:Two experiments were conducted to better understand the ipsilateral contribut...

journal_title：Neurorehabilitation and neural repair

authors： Ketcham CJ,Rodriguez TM,Zihlman KA

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Stroke survivors can exhibit abnormally elevated oxygen consumption during walking. Therapeutic interventions can improve gait deficits and oxygen consumption. A practical measure of oxygen cost is not available. This study tested the usefulness of an indirect index of oxygen cost, the Physiological Cost Ind...

journal_title：Neurorehabilitation and neural repair

authors： Fredrickson E,Ruff RL,Daly JJ

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine whether cerebral activity during passive movements decreases with time after stroke, and if reduced activity in the representation for the upper extremity can be reversed with training. METHODS:Brain activity was measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during passive wrist flexion...

journal_title：Neurorehabilitation and neural repair

authors： Lindberg PG,Schmitz C,Engardt M,Forssberg H,Borg J

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dysphagia diagnosis is limited by our inability to evaluate the underlying neuromuscular pathology of swallowing. A novel approach using pharyngeal surface electromyography (PsEMG) has been reported in the literature. OBJECTIVE:Three exploratory projects were undertaken to provide data toward the validation...

journal_title：Neurorehabilitation and neural repair

authors： Doeltgen SH,Hofmayer A,Gumbley F,Witte U,Moran C,Carroll G,Huckabee ML

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The neural correlates of training-induced improvements of cognitive functions after brain damage remain still scarcely understood. In the specific case of aphasia, although several investigations have addressed the issue of the neural substrates of functional recovery, only a few studies have attempted to as...

journal_title：Neurorehabilitation and neural repair

authors： Vitali P,Abutalebi J,Tettamanti M,Danna M,Ansaldo AI,Perani D,Joanette Y,Cappa SF

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Limited data are available about the effectiveness of early rehabilitation after stroke. OBJECTIVE:This is the 1st randomized controlled trial of constraint-induced movement therapy (CIMT) in subacute stroke to investigate neurophysiologic mechanisms and long-term outcome. METHODS:Within 2 weeks after stro...

journal_title：Neurorehabilitation and neural repair

authors： Boake C,Noser EA,Ro T,Baraniuk S,Gaber M,Johnson R,Salmeron ET,Tran TM,Lai JM,Taub E,Moye LA,Grotta JC,Levin HS

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is growing interest in the use of D-amphetamine (D-AMPH) as a pharmacological treatment to supplement rehabilitative therapy following stroke. Based on the success of earlier animal models, several clinical studies have demonstrated beneficial effects of applying physical rehabilitation while stroke pa...

journal_title：Neurorehabilitation and neural repair

authors： Barbay S,Zoubina EV,Dancause N,Frost SB,Eisner-Janowicz I,Stowe AM,Plautz EJ,Nudo RJ

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In clinical trials, behavioral outcomes and physiological measures of activity-dependent plasticity that evolve with task-oriented therapies may fail to reach statistical significance. When significant, clinical effectiveness may not be robust enough to alter professional practices. OBJECTIVE:Provide the co...

journal_title：Neurorehabilitation and neural repair

authors： Dobkin BH

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Wolf Motor Function Test (WMFT) has been used in rehabilitation studies of chronic stroke patients, but until now its psychometric properties have not been evaluated in patients with subacute stroke. Two hundred twenty-nine participants with subacute stroke (3-9 months postinjury) at 7 research sites met inclusion...

journal_title：Neurorehabilitation and neural repair

authors： Wolf SL,Thompson PA,Morris DM,Rose DK,Winstein CJ,Taub E,Giuliani C,Pearson SL

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Poststroke functional outcome and discharge disposition are influenced by age, lesion location and size, severity of neurological insult, prior functional ability, and social support. The effect of admission ambulation velocity on length of stay and discharge disposition has not been previously r...

journal_title：Neurorehabilitation and neural repair

authors： Rabadi MH,Blau A

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article summarizes the proceedings of an NIH workshop on timing, intensity, and duration of rehabilitation for acute stroke and hip fracture. Participants concentrated on methodological issues facing investigators and suggested priorities for future research in this area. ...

journal_title：Neurorehabilitation and neural repair

authors： Weinrich M,Good DC,Reding M,Roth EJ,Cifu DX,Silver KH,Craik RL,Magaziner J,Terrin M,Schwartz M,Gerber L

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Motor Status Scale (MSS) measures shoulder, elbow (maximum score = 40), wrist, hand, and finger movements (maximum score = 42), and expands the measurement of upper extremity impairment and disability provided by the Fugl-Meyer (FM) score. This work examines the interrater reliability and criterion validity of the...

journal_title：Neurorehabilitation and neural repair

authors： Ferraro M,Demaio JH,Krol J,Trudell C,Rannekleiv K,Edelstein L,Christos P,Aisen M,England J,Fasoli S,Krebs HI,Hogan N,Volpe BT

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00