OBJECTIVE To assess the balance function of hemiplegic stroke patients and to investigate whether visual feedback rhythmic weight-shift training following acute stroke can decrease falls among patients with hemiplegic stroke. DESIGN A prospective study, using a Balance Master. SETTING Hospital-based rehabilitation units. SUBJECTS Fifty-two hemiplegic stroke patients (28 in the training gr...

Objectives: Ankle Foot Orthoses (AFOs) are widely utilized to improve walking ability in hemiplegic patients. The present study aimed to evaluate the effect of Rocker bar Ankle Foot Orthosis (RAFO) on functional mobility in post-stroke hemiplegic patients. Methods: Fifteen hemiplegic patients (men and women) who were at least 6-months post-stroke and able to walk without an assistive device for...

An experiment was carried out in the key laboratory for Technique Diagnosis and Function Assessment of Winter Sports of China to investigate the differences in gait characteristics between healthy children and children with spastic hemiplegic cerebral palsy. With permission of their parents, 200 healthy children aged 3 to 6 years in the kindergarten of Northeastern University were enrolled in t...

OBJECTIVE To explore the relationship between a number of clinically relevant variables and sonographic imaging data in respect to the level of impairment experienced in the affected and unaffected shoulders of hemiplegic stroke patients. METHOD Fifty-one hemiplegic stroke patients (32 males, 19 females; 29 right-sided hemiplegics, 22 left-sided hemiplegics) participated in this study. A musc...

A 17-year-old boy developed diffuse throbbing headache of 36 hours duration associated with photophobia and phonophobia. Twelve hours later, he developed dysarthria and rightsided weakness. He had a similar episode 5 months ago with resolution of symptoms in 24 hours, following which he was put on prophylactic sodium valproate 300 mg/day. His elder brother had suffered from intermittent diffuse...

OBJECTIVE To assess the intrarater and interrater reliability of the supraspinatus thickness measured by ultrasonography (US) in normal subjects and to identify the relationship between the supraspinatus thickness measured by US and cross sectional area (CSA) of the supraspinatus muscle by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in hemiplegic patients. METHOD We examined 20 shoulders of normal subje...

how to cite this article: kazemi h, speckmann ej, gorji a. familial hemiplegic migraine and spreading depression. iran j child neurol. 2014 summer;8(3): 6-11.   abstract objective familial hemiplegic migraine (fhm) is an autosomal dominantly inherited subtype of migraine with aura, characterized by transient neurological signs and symptoms. typical hemiplegic migraine attacks start in the first...

We report a patient with episodic ataxia (presumably of type 2) who developed cerebral oedema secondary to a common infection (presumably viral). Cerebral oedema may be a part of the clinical spectrum of familial episodic ataxia and argues for an overlap with hemiplegic migraine. It is suggested to consider a diagnosis of episodic ataxia or familial hemiplegic migraine in catastrophic reactions...

This paper describes a system for measuring the temporal parameters of hemiplegic gait. This system uses shoe insoles with sensors, acting as switches, placed under the heel, head of the first metatarsal, head of the fifth metatarsal and the big toe. This system is able to monitor gait for up to 10 min and can be used by the patient over any surface. Parameters for evaluating hemiplegic gait ar...