BACKGROUND Poststroke cavovarus foot greatly affects patients' activities of daily life and raises the risks of falls and consequent fractures. Acupuncture appears to be safe and effective in promoting motor functions and enhancing the activities of daily life among patients with poststroke cavovarus foot. The current study aims to study the biomechanical effect of acupuncture for poststroke ca...

Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease is the most prevalent peripheral inherited neuropathy (1/2500 to 10 000; 2.8/10 000 in Spain), and the mean age at onset is 16 years (range 2 to 50 years, but presentation in the early infancy and as late as the 80's has been reported). Patients present with motor and sensory polyneuropathic semiology (distal lower limb weakness and atrophy, gait abnormalities ...

Introduction. The valosin-containing protein (VCP) regulates several distinct cellular processes. Consistent with this, VCP mutations manifest variable clinical phenotypes among and within families and are a diagnostic challenge. Methods. A 60-year-old man who played ice hockey into his 50's was evaluated by electrodiagnostics, muscle biopsy, and molecular genetics. Results. With long-standing ...

The 50 patients in this survey were classified by a panel of neurologists into 4 clinical sub-groups: Group Ia ("typical" Friedreich's ataxia, complete picture), Group Ib ("typical" Friedreich's ataxia, incomplete picture), Group IIa ("atypical" Frriedreich's ataxia, possible recessive Roussy-Levy syndrome), Group IIb (heterogeneous ataxias). The clinical symptoms and signs were analyzed for ea...

CONTEXT Medial impingement syndrome of the ankle is common in the athletic population. A marginal osteophyte on the leading edge of the medial talar facet and a corresponding "kissing" osteophyte on the tibia, in front of the medial malleolus, may abut and cause pain and limited dorsiflexion. BACKGROUND Palpation of the talar osteophyte and standard imaging-especially, the oblique view of the...

Hereditary scapular winging is an important clue for neuromuscular differential diagnosis. We report a case of a family with a novel phenotype of isolated scapular winging due to a mutation in Transient Receptor Potential Vallinoid 4 (TRPV4). We believe this report may broaden the differential diagnosis of patients with scapular winging. Phenotypes associated with mutations in this gene have be...

The study was conducted on fruit trees where bands of corrugated cardboard were attached around the trunks of the trees, which were used to catch the larvae of overwintering generation of the rufous-tipped swammerdamia moth, Swammerdamia pyrella (Villers) (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutidae). Twenty-five species of parasitic Hymenoptera have been described from S. pyrella in Poland including the report...

Kallmann syndrome (KS) is a disease clinically characterized by the association of hypogonadotropic hypogonadism and anosmia or hyposmia, for which three modes of transmission have been described: X-linked, autosomal recessive and autosomal dominant. The KAL-1 gene, responsible for the X-linked form of the disease, has been isolated and its intron-exon organization determined. In this study, tw...