Recovery in Stroke Rehabilitation Through the Rotation of Preferred Directions Induced by Bimanual Movements: A Computational Study.
Recovery in Stroke Rehabilitation through the Rotation of Preferred Directions Induced by Bimanual Movements: A Computational Study.
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PLoS One. 2012; 7(5): e37594
Takiyama K, Okada M
Stroke patients recover more effectively when they are rehabilitated with bimanual movement rather than with unimanual movement; however, it remains unclear why bimanual movement is more effective for stroke recovery. Using a computational model of stroke recovery, this study suggests that bimanual movement facilitates the reorganization of a damaged motor cortex because this movement induces rotations in the preferred directions (PDs) of motor cortex neurons. Although the tuning curves of these neurons differ during unimanual and bimanual movement, changes in PD, but not changes in modulation depth, facilitate such reorganization. In addition, this reorganization was facilitated only when encoding PDs are rotated, but decoding PDs are not rotated. Bimanual movement facilitates reorganization because this movement changes neural activities through inter-hemispheric inhibition without changing cortical-spinal-muscle connections. Furthermore, stronger inter-hemispheric inhibition between motor cortices results in more effective reorganization. Thus, this study suggests that bimanual movement is effective for stroke rehabilitation because this movement rotates the encoding PDs of motor cortex neurons.
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What is health and what is positive? The ICF solution.
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World Psychiatry. 2012 Jun; 11(2): 104-5
Linden M
Epicondylectomy versus denervation for lateral humeral epicondylitis.
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Hand (N Y). 2011 Jun; 6(2): 174-8
Berry N, Neumeister MW, Russell RC, Dellon AL
Traditional management of lateral humeral epicondylitis (“tennis elbow”) relies upon antiinflammatory medication, rehabilitation, steroid injection, counterforce splinting, and, finally, surgery to the common extensor origin. The diversity of surgical approaches for lateral humeral epicondylitis (LHE) suggests perhaps that the ideal technique has not been determined. Denervation of the lateral humeral epicondyle is the concept of interrupting the neural pathway that transmits the pain message. Epicondylectomy may accomplish its relief of LHE by denervating the epicondyle.Since it is known that the posterior branch of the posterior cutaneous nerve of the forearm innervates the lateral humeral epicondyle, 30 patients who were treated surgically for refractory LHE were retrospectively evaluated. Group 1 consisted of 17 patients who were treated with epicondylectomy alone, group II consisted of seven patients who were treated with lateral epicondylectomy plus neurectomy, and group III consisted of seven patients treated with lateral denervation alone.Denervation alone gave statistically significantly greater improvement in pain relief (p?HubMed – rehab
Case 2: The clues were in the stools.
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Paediatr Child Health. 2011 Jun; 16(6): 333-5
Langevin M, Zuijdwijk C, Alam M
Second prestigious cancer center in Georgia benefits us all
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The GHSU Cancer Center was designed to meet the growing needs of southeast Georgia for state-of-the art cancer treatment, access to clinical trials and strong community partnership in reducing the burden of cancer through community health outreach and …
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UCSF advances fight against cystic fibrosis
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Taylor, whose family lives in Piedmont, is a patient at UCSF's cystic fibrosis center, where doctors have adopted aggressive treatment protocols for keeping the inherited disease under control. She wears a special vibrating vest for half an hour, …
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How new Michigan law requiring insurers to cover autism treatment is expected …
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“We're excited about it,” said Elyse Wiseman, a behavior analyst at Hope Network's Center for Autism. “Families have been dying to get treatment, but it hasn't been an option.” The long-term effect of the treatment mandate approved by state lawmakers …
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