Upper extremity ambulators (UEAs) who require prolonged use of assistive devices for mobility have a high incidence of shoulder pathology secondary to increased stress across the shoulder joint with u...
An institutional review board-approved retrospective chart review was performed in patients who underwent RSA at our institution by the senior author from 2004 to 2019. UEAs were defined as patients w...
A total of 159 RSA procedures (70 UEAs, 89 controls) were performed during the study period. On average, UEA patients had more preoperative pain and less shoulder function than controls, with statisti...
RSA in the UEA population can achieve similar pain and functional outcomes as compared with age-matched controls without a significant increase in complication rates; however, further studies are requ...
The movement of the upper extremities is important for balance control in human walking. However, it is still unknown which mode of arm swing ensures the most stable gait due to the lack of appropriat...
Data of healthy 50 subjects from an external database was used. We used a human gait database for this analysis. All experimental trials were performed in Centre National de Rééducation Fonctionnelle ...
The amplitude of arm swing was greater in gait with self-selected fast speed then in slow walking. Higher walking speeds entailed also the more structured and repetitive movement of the upper extremit...
Our results suggest that choosing the lowest possible walking speed is not the best strategy as the most symmetric arm swing occurs during gait with self-selected speed....
Upper limb (UL) paresis is one of the most common stroke consequences and significantly restricts patients in everyday life. Instruments objectively measuring direct arm use in stroke patients are lac...
Articles were systematically searched in PubMed, Scopus, Cochrane Library, PeDro and LIVIVO through December 12...
Excluding duplicates, the initial search yielded 477 records. In the 34 eligible studies accelerometers was used with a predominance of tri-axial accelerometery (n = 12) and only few with two-axial ap...
Accelerometers can provide reliable data about daily arm use frequency but do not supply information about the movements´ quality and restrictions on everyday activities of stroke patients. Depending ...
One of the main aspects of management for necrotizing soft tissue infection (NSTI) is surgical excision and debridement, which can result in large soft tissue defects. This study examined the reconstr...
A retrospective chart review was performed on patients from a single institution who were diagnosed with an upper extremity NSTI between 2014 and 2019. Patient characteristics, infectious etiology, su...
There were 99 patients included in the study. The median size of the wound from the initial surgical debridement was 100 cm 2 (interquartile range, 300 cm 2 ). The mean number of debridements was 3.4....
Overall, patients with upper extremity NSTIs survive and undergo successful reconstruction of their wounds. Few patients required additional procedures for reconstructive failure or sequela of their w...
» Gunshot injuries to the upper extremity (UE) have high likelihood for causing peripheral nerve injury secondary to the high density of vital structures. Roughly one-fourth of patients sustaining a g...
In the last decade there has been incredible interest and advancement in the surgical care of adult patients with upper motor neuron (UMN) injuries. Spasticity represents a prevalent and debilitating ...
Ipsilesional motor impairments of the arm are common after stroke. Previous studies have suggested that severity of contralesional arm impairment and/or hemisphere of lesion may predict the severity o...
A total of 106 participants with first-time, unilateral stroke completed a unilateral assessment of arm motor impairment (visually guided reaching task) using the Kinarm Exoskeleton. Participants comp...
Robotic assessment of arm motor function revealed a higher incidence of ipsilesional arm impairment than clinical measures immediately post-stroke. The incidence of ipsilesional arm impairments decrea...
Ipsilesional arm impairments were variable. They displayed relationships of varying strength with contralesional impairments and were not well predicted by lesioned hemisphere. With standard clinical ...
Hand and upper extremity (HUE) vascular disorders are encountered frequently by hand surgeons in clinical practice. A wide array of imaging and vascular interventional radiology modalities exists for ...
Melorheostosis is a rare bone disorder with limited literature that describes the effect of this disease on functional and motor abilities. As part of a natural history study, four outcome measures we...
To investigate the relationship between functional engagement, fatigue, and motor ability in patients with melorheostosis....
Cross-sectional data gathered from a longitudinal natural history observational study....
Rehabilitation department within a single institution....
Forty-seven adult volunteers with melorheostosis were enrolled. Two participants were removed for failure to meet diagnosis eligibility. Thirty patients had lower extremity (LE) osteosclerotic bone le...
Not applicable....
Activity Card Sort, Second Edition (ACS); Multi-Dimensional Fatigue Inventory; Lower Extremity Functional Scale; Upper Extremity Functional Index....
On the ACS, high-demand leisure (HDL) activities were the least retained (p < .001). Of the activities rated most important, HDL activities were the most likely to have been given up (27%). General fa...
Patients with melorheostosis experience fatigue and low engagement in HDL activities. The results of this study underscore the importance of acknowledging activity domain, fatigue constructs, and lesi...
NCT02504879....
Upper extremity hemiplegia is a serious problem affecting the lives of many people post-stroke. Motor recovery requires high repetitions and quality of task-specific practice. Sufficient practice cann...
