Clinical rehabilitation
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Clinical rehabilitation · Oct 2011
Randomized Controlled TrialEffects of virtual reality training on functional reaching movements in people with Parkinson's disease: a randomized controlled pilot trial.
To investigate whether practising reaching for virtual moving targets would improve motor performance in people with Parkinson's disease. ⋯ A short virtual reality training programme improved the movement speed of discrete aiming tasks when participants reached for real stationary objects. However, the transfer effect was minimal when reaching for real moving objects.
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Clinical rehabilitation · Sep 2011
Randomized Controlled TrialEffects of myofascial release techniques on pain, physical function, and postural stability in patients with fibromyalgia: a randomized controlled trial.
To determine the effect of myofascial release techniques on pain symptoms, postural stability and physical function in fibromyalgia syndrome. ⋯ The results suggest that myofascial release techniques can be a complementary therapy for pain symptoms, physical function and clinical severity but do not improve postural stability in patients with fibromyalgia syndrome.
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Clinical rehabilitation · Jun 2011
Randomized Controlled TrialCombined transcranial direct current stimulation and robot-assisted gait training in patients with chronic stroke: a preliminary comparison.
To evaluate whether robot-assisted gait training combined with transcranial direct current stimulation is more effective than robot-assisted gait training alone or conventional walking rehabilitation for improving walking ability in stroke patients. ⋯ In the present pilot study transcranial direct current stimulation had no additional effect on robot-assisted gait training in patients with chronic stroke. Larger studies are required to confirm these preliminary findings.
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Clinical rehabilitation · Jan 2011
Randomized Controlled TrialWhich treatment approach is better for hemiplegic shoulder pain in stroke patients: intra-articular steroid or suprascapular nerve block? A randomized controlled trial.
To determine which injection technique was effective for patients with hemiplegic shoulder pain. ⋯ Our results showed that neither injection technique was superior to the other. Both injection procedures are safe and have a similar effect in stroke patients with hemiplegic shoulder pain.
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Clinical rehabilitation · Jan 2011
Randomized Controlled TrialA randomized controlled trial investigating the effects of craniosacral therapy on pain and heart rate variability in fibromyalgia patients.
Fibromyalgia is a prevalent musculoskeletal disorder associated with widespread mechanical tenderness, fatigue, non-refreshing sleep, depressed mood and pervasive dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system: tachycardia, postural intolerance, Raynaud's phenomenon and diarrhoea. ⋯ Craniosacral therapy improved medium-term pain symptoms in patients with fibromyalgia.