Content - Volume 47, Issue 3

Objective: To systematically review the psychometric properties and clinical utility of cognitive screening tools post-stroke. Data sources: EMBASE, CINAHL, MEDLINE, PsychInfo. Study selection: Studies testing the accuracy of screening tools for cognitive impairment after stroke. Data extraction: Data regarding the participants, selection criteria, criterion/reference measure, cut-off score, ...

Objective: To systematically review the psychometric properties and clinical utility of cognitive screening tools post-stroke. Data sources: EMBASE, CINAHL, MEDLINE, PsychInfo. Study selection: Studies testing the accuracy of screening tools for cognitive impairment after stroke. Data extraction: Data regarding the participants, selection criteria, criterion/reference measure, cut-off score, ...

Objective: To evaluate the effect of mental practice on motor imagery ability and assess the influence of motor imagery on gait rehabilitation in sub-acute stroke. Design: Randomized controlled trial. Subjects: A total of 44 patients with gait dysfunction after first-ever stroke were randomly allocated to a motor imagery training group and a muscle relaxation group. Methods: The motor imager ...

Objective: To investigate the types of coping strategies used by parents of children with acquired brain injury in the chronic phase and the relationship between their coping styles and psychosocial functioning. Design: Cross-sectional study (April–May 2013). Subjects: Parents (n = 42) of 28 children with acquired brain injury (> 6 months post-injury). Methods: Parents co ...

Objective: To examine the subjective understanding of participation and integration of persons with spinal cord injuries from 5 European countries and to compare these findings with the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)’s conceptualization of participation. Methods: Semi-structured interviews with 54 persons with acquired spinal cord injuries and 3 with s ...

Objective: To study the effect of whole-body vibration therapy on bone mass, bone turnover and body composition in severely disabled children. Methods: Nineteen non-ambulatory children aged 5. 1–16. 3 years (6 males, 13 females) with severe motor disabilities participated in an intervention programme with standing exercise on a self-controlled dynamic platform, which included whole-body vibrat ...

Objective: To determine whether participation in a group fitness class for pregnant women can prevent and treat pelvic girdle pain and low back pain. Design: An observer-blinded randomized controlled trial. Participants: A total of 105 sedentary, nulliparous pregnant women, mean age 30. 7 years (standard deviation (SD) 4. 0), mean pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) 23. 8 (SD 4. 3), were assig ...

Objective: To determine whether total knee arthroplasty recipients demonstrating comparatively poor mobility at entry to rehabilitation and who received supervised therapy, had better rehabilitation outcomes than those who received less supervision. Design: Retrospective analysis of randomized trial data. Patients: Total knee arthroplasty participants randomized to supervised (n =  ...

Objective: To explore patients’ experiences of activity, participation and quality of life one year after a rehabilitation programme for chronic pain, and to determine the impact of the programme on their current life situation. Design: Qualitative study with emergent design. Subjects and methods: The 14 informants were patients with chronic pain who had participated in rehabilitation at a p ...

Objectives: To create reference values for the general Finnish population using the Tampa Scale of Kinesiophobia (TSK-FIN), to study gender differences in the TSK-FIN, to assess the internal consistency of the TSK-FIN, to estimate the prevalence of high levels of kinesiophobia in Finnish men and women, and to examine the association between kinesiophobia and leisure-time physical activity and the ...

Objective: Assessing a patient’s ability to walk the distance required for community ambulation (at least 300 m) is important in amputee rehabilitation. During the 2-min walk test, most amputees cannot walk 300 m. Thus, the 6-min walk test may be preferred, but it has not been fully validated in this population. This study examined the convergent and discriminative validity of the 6-min walk tes ...

Objective: To investigate the interaction of seat height and arm position with completion times for the Five Times Sit-To-Stand test (FTSTS) in older women. Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting: University-based rehabilitation centre. Subjects: Thirty-three women (mean age 61. 8 years, standard deviation 5. 3) participated in this cross-sectional study. Methods: Time taken to complete th ...

Objective: The Copenhagen Outpatient ProgrammE – implantable cardioverter defibrillator (COPE-ICD) trial included patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators in a randomized controlled trial of rehabilitation. After 6–12 months significant differences were found in favour of the rehabilitation group for exercise capacity, general and mental health. The aim of this paper is to explore ...

Objective: To develop a video-based system, mounted on a rollator to quantify the step width values of rollator users in the community. Subjects: A total of 5 able-bodied young adults, age range 24–28 years. Methods: A digital video camera system was mounted on the rollator frame to capture the position of the participant’s feet during overground walking. A method of estimating step width ...

Objective: To gather preliminary data on the effectiveness of intensive rehabilitation after hip fracture surgery, as provided in the Transfer Unit (TU) in Leiden, The Netherlands, compared with the effectiveness of rehabilitation in a regular nursing home. Intensive rehabilitation in the TU consists of physical therapy twice daily by dedicated medical staff and aims to shorten hospital stay and d ...

Objective: Serotonin syndrome is a potentially life-threatening condition that can be caused by administration of agents that increase serotonergic activity in the brain. We report here on 2 stroke patients who presented with serotonin syndrome following administration of dopaminergic agents. Case report: Two stroke patients were administered ropinirole (patient 1) and carbidopa/levodopa (patient ...