We assessed the value of stapedius reflex testing as an objective measurement of striated muscle function in four patients with Pompe disease. Common tests of disease severity and efficacy of enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) yield highly variable results that depend on patient cooperation and day-to-day performance, whereas stapedius reflex thresholds improved in seven of eight ears after 2 yea...

BACKGROUND Treatment of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN), which affects approximately 30% to 40% of patients treated with neuropathy-causing agents, is mainly symptomatic. Currently available interventions are of little benefit. STUDY DESIGN This study was conducted as a retrospective analysis of the efficacy of acupuncture and reflexology in alleviating CIPN in breast cancer...

Cutaneous afferent nerve fibres fall into two categories of fibre sizes, group II (6 to 16 ,t) and group III (2 to 3 ,i) (Ranson, Droegemueller, Davenport, and Fisher, 1935). Afferent fibres from the skin, together with high threshold joint afferents and groups II and III muscle afferents, are classed as flexion reflex afferents, part of the nociceptive reflex system of Sherrington (1906) subse...

Foot reflexology has improved numerous physical and psychological symptoms in patients. The researchers this study aimed to investigate the effect of foot on laboratory parameters, intake/output/weight medication regimen after kidney transplant surgery. research was a secondary analysis parallel randomized controlled trial. included patients who were admitted transplantation ward. stratified ra...

A technique is described for the quantitative assessment of peripheral nociceptive C fibre function by measurement of the axon reflex flare. Acetylcholine, introduced by electrophoresis, is used to stimulate a ring of nociceptive C fibre endings at the centre of which the increase in blood flow is measured with a laser Doppler flowmeter. This flare (neurogenic vasodilatation) has been compared ...

sname=15th_International_Congress_of_Immunology_(ICI) Masgutova, S. K., Akhmatova, N. K., & Kiselevsky, M. V. (2008). Clinic-immunological assessment of effect of the therapy program of neuro-sensory-motor integration of reflex patterns at chronic inflammatory diseases of respiratory system. Russian Immunology Journal, 2, 454-463. Masgutova, S. K. & Denis, M. (2012). MNRI® Oral-facial reflex in...

Title: Evidence for strong synaptic coupling between single tactile afferents from the sole of the foot and motoneurones supplying leg muscles Authors: James B Fallon, Leah R Bent, Penelope A McNulty & Vaughan G Macefield Affiliations: Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Sydney, NSW Australia Running Head: Reflex responses from tactile afferents Corresponding Author: James B. Fallon The...

the effect of foot reflexology on the outcomes of labor on primiparous moghimi hanjani s[1]*, mehdizadeh torzani z[2], shoghi m[3], ahmadi g[4] received: 20 may, 2012 accepted: 23aug, 2012 abstractbackground & aims: fear of labor pain is one of the problems that raises the rate of caesarean section in our country. midwifes can use one of the non-pharmacological pain relief methods such as refle...

Background and Objective. Now with more and more published systematic reviews of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) on adult cancer pain, it is necessary to use the methods of overview of systematic review to summarize available evidence, appraise the evidence level, and give suggestions to future research and practice. Methods. A comprehensive search (the Cochrane Library, PubMed, Em...