OBJECTIVE To compare the effect of exercise regimes with focus on either motor control training or endurance/strength training for patients with whiplash-associated disorders in subacute phase. DESIGN Randomized controlled trial. SETTING An outpatient spine clinic in Norway. PARTICIPANTS Twenty-five subjects with a whiplash-associated disorder still having symptoms or disability six weeks...

Previously, we published a video-based objective rating scale of tics that met reliability and validity criteria for measurement of five domains of tic disability. In the original form, the scale's metric properties did not permit internal comparison of each of the five domains of impairment and did not provide a total score for use as a primary outcome measure. In this study, we retained the o...

abstract   background: low back pain (lbp) is still a medical problem in 21 st century. having back pain and being disabled by it are not the same thing. it is common to come across with patients who have simple back pain but surprisingly totally disabled and vice versa. in clinical practice, it is important to have a proper evaluation of disability and making a clear distinction between pain a...

Stroke is the leading cause of serious, long-term disability among American adults. Each year over 700,000 people suffer a new or recurrent stroke, and nearly 500,000 (71%) survive with some form of enduring neurological disability. Upper extremity (UE) motor impairment is a common consequence of stroke and often produces significant challenges for patients as they engage in everyday instrument...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that CD8+ T cells directly mediate motor disability and axon injury in the demyelinated central nervous system. We have previously observed that genetic deletion of the CD8+ T cell effector molecule perforin leads to preservation of motor function and preservation of spinal axons in chronically demyelinated mice. METHODOLOGY/PR...

CONTEXT Therapeutic exercises are frequently prescribed to patients with low back pain. Numerous exercise programs for patients with low back pain have been described. Many of these treatment programs are based on 1 of 2 popular rehabilitation strategies: a motor control exercise approach or a general exercise approach. DATA SOURCES PubMed clinical queries from 1966 to March 2013 for keyword ...