Upper limb involvement in cerebral palsy is usually more complex than in lower limb and current clinical evaluation methods do not fully assess the function of upper limbs during simple activities of daily life for cerebral palsy patients. We thus defined a protocol allowing the 3D kinematics and EMG analysis of upper limbs during defined tasks in order to complete the clinical analysis of such...

Studies have shown that improvements in the upper limb function of post-stroke victims tend to be worse than those in the lower limb functions, and there is generally a poorer prognosis for the upper limbs [1]. This is because the upper limbs demand greater involvement of the parietal lobe (surrounding the intraparietal sulcus and the inferior parietal lobule) and the frontal lobe (ventral prem...

Objective Recovery of motor function is important for regaining independence after stroke, but difficult to predict for individual patients. Our aim was to develop an efficient, accurate, and accessible algorithm for use in clinical settings. Clinical, neurophysiological, and neuroimaging biomarkers of corticospinal integrity obtained within days of stroke were combined to predict likely upper ...

BACKGROUND OnabotulinumtoxinA (BoNT-A) can temporarily decrease spasticity following stroke, but whether there is an associated improvement in upper limb function is less clear. This study measured the benefit of adding weekly rehabilitation to a background of BoNT-A treatments for chronic upper limb spasticity following stroke. METHODS This was a multi-center clinical trial. Thirty-one patie...