CONTEXT Hemiparesia changes quality of life of patients with stroke making difficult a normal life. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of Functional Eletric Orthesis (FEO) applied over the paretic leg in the quality of life of stroke patients. METHOD The quality of life of 50 stroke patients of Associacao de Assistencia a Crianca Deficiente (AACD) was evaluated with SF-36 questionnaire before...

Objetivo: el propósito del estudio fue conocer grado de discapacidad y sus determinantes socioeconómicos, clínicos acceso a los servicios salud rehabilitación en personas con hemiplejía o hemiparesia la ciudad Popayán, Cauca. Metodología: descriptivo, correlacional transversal. Participaron 52 mayores edad, hemiplejia hemiparesia. Se aplicó cuestionario evaluación WHODAS 2.0.Resultados: El 100 ...

OBJECTIVE To report a rare case with central-variant posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome due to sulfasalazine. CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND INTERVENTION A 55-year-old female patient presented with seizure and acute-onset hemiparesia. Thirty days earlier, treatment with sulfasalazine was commenced in response to a diagnosis of psoriatic arthritis. Laboratory examinations were normal. Bra...

This article describes ischemic symptoms following post-traumatic vasospasm in a patient with mild traumatic brain injury. A 17-year-old female presented with left hemiparesia, confusion and right mydriasis 14 days after a moderate head injury resulting in brain contusion and basal cisternal sub-arachnoid hemorrhage. Bilateral supraclinoidal internal carotid artery vasospasm and a right anterio...

stroke, though rare in children is among the top 10 causes of death in childhood. incidence of ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke is the same in children .we report a case of hemorrhagic stroke in a two year old girl who presented with a limp, inability to stand on the left leg and left hemiparesia. her complaint began 10 days ago after a bout of left clonic seizure. she had been admitted to the h...