BACKGROUND Loss of upper limb function affects up to 85 % of acute stroke patients. Recovery of upper limb function requires regular intensive practise of specific upper limb tasks. To enhance intensity of practice interventions are being developed to encourage patients to undertake self-directed exercise practice. Most interventions do not translate well into everyday activities and stroke pat...

QUESTION What is the effect of exercise on reducing impairment and increasing activity in the rehabilitation of people with upper limb fractures? DESIGN Systematic review of controlled trials. PARTICIPANTS Adults following an upper limb fracture. INTERVENTION Any exercise therapy program, including trials where exercise was delivered to both groups providing there was an expectation of di...

Purpose: Recovery of the train-of-four ratio (TOFR) to > 0.9 in the upper limb is commonly used to determine that neuromuscular function has returned to the preoperative level. It is not known whether recovery of neuromuscular function can be determined in the same way using lower limb acceleromyography. We compared measurements of recovery from neuromuscular blockade using upper limb electromy...

BACKGROUND / OBJECTIVES Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is associated with significant pain and deformities, where individuals continue to perform activities with reduced abilities. Fatigue and functional disability ensues with the progressive nature of the disease. The study was designed to observe the correlation between the Functional Ability of the Hand with Upper Limb function and Quality of Lif...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether cutaneous electrical stimulation has a role in the enhancement of sensorimotor function in chronic stroke. SUBJECTS AND SETTING Fifty-nine patients with chronic stroke received cutaneous stimulation during their three-week-long inpatient rehabilitation. Thirty-two received active treatment in the paretic hand and eight received no-current placebo treatment in ...

Objective- We assessed the effect of change in core isometric strength and endurance on upper limb isometric strength in female athletes. Methods- In this experimental study, 32 female athletes aged 18-25 years were recruited based on the inclusion criteria. (17 cases in the experimental group and 15 cases in the control group). Before and after the core stabilization knockdown protocol, parti...

PURPOSE Motor and cognitive impairments are common and often coexist in patients with stroke. Although evidence is emerging about specific relationships between cognitive deficits and upper-limb motor recovery, the practical implication of these relationships for rehabilitation is unclear. Using a structured review and meta-analyses, we examined the nature and strength of the associations betwe...