(1) Post Graduation Program in Dentistry at Piracicaba School of Dentistry, Campinas State University – FOP-UNICAMP, Piracicaba-SP, Brazil. (2) University of Sagrado Coração, Bauru-SP, Brazil. (3) Speech-language pathologist; PhD Professor of the Speech-Language Pathology Department at Bauru School of Dentistry, University of São Paulo FOB-USP, Bauru-SP, Brazil; PhD in Physiopathology in Medica...

Background. No strongly clinical evidence about the use of hand robot-assisted therapy in stroke patients was demonstrated. This preliminary observer study was aimed at evaluating the efficacy of intensive robot-assisted therapy in hand function recovery, in the early phase after a stroke onset. Methods. Seven acute ischemic stroke patients at their first-ever stroke were enrolled. Treatment wa...

Objectives: This prospective study was done to assess motor recovery of upper extremity function in post ischemic stroke patients after application of Constraint Induced Movement program in addition to traditional rehabilitation program and to compare between efficacy of this combination and efficacy of traditional rehabilitation program only in reducing upper limb impairment after stroke. Subj...

ABSTRACT No reports about treatments applied by orofacial motricity experts, in craniofacial trauma, were found the specialized literature. However, their knowledge, added to that of aesthetic area, would be useful rehabilitation scars. The aim this work is describe mixed use motor skills, muscle balance massage and scar management a patient with soft tissues facial trauma. During initial evalu...

We attempted to determine whether shoulder subluxation at the early stage of stroke can predict motor outcome in relation to the corticospinal tract (CST) state on diffusion tensor tractography.Fifty-nine stroke patients with severe hemiparesis were recruited. The patients were classified according to the distance of shoulder subluxation (group A: ≥2 cm, group B: <2 cm) and the affected CST on ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Chronic hemiparetic patients often retain the ability to manage activities requiring both hands, either through the use of the affected arm or compensation with the unaffected limb. A measure of this overall ability was developed by adapting and validating the ABILHAND questionnaire through the Rasch measurement model. ABILHAND measures the patient's perceived difficulty ...

INTRODUCTION Haemorrhagic stroke is one of the leading causes of death and the most common cause of long-term adult disability. An accurate estimation of prognosis is very important for haemorrhagic stroke patients. Impairment of motor function caused by pyramidal tract injury is common in these patients. In this study, we performed MR diffusion tensor tractography (DTT) to predict the impairme...