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Clustering of functioning and disability profile based on the WHO disability assessment schedule 2.0 - a nationwide databank study.
Conclusion: We converted WHO Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0. functioning domain scores into six-dimensioned radar chart, and demonstrate disability restrictions can be further categorized into clusters according to similarity of functioning impairment. Understanding of disease-related disabilities provides an important basis for designing rehabilitation programs and policies on social welfare and health that reflect the daily-living needs of people according to diagnosis.Implication for RehabilitationThe use of radar charts provided a direct visualization of the scope and severity of disabilities associated with specif...
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - June 10, 2020 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Chen CP, Chen YW, Chang KH, Huang SW, Wu CH, Escorpizo R, Stucki G, Liou TH Tags: Disabil Rehabil Source Type: research

A Medication Combination for the Treatment of Central Post-Stroke Pain (CPSP) via the Adjuvant use of Prednisone with Gabapentin: A Case Report
Publication date: Available online 25 September 2015 Source:PM&R Author(s): Luis Batlle, Ryan Mattie, Robert Irwin Case Description CPSP is a neuropathic pain syndrome that can occur from pathology of the brain. The case presented is of a female with multiple comorbidities and who was found to have an acute infarct in the left middle and anterior cerebral artery territories. She began to complain of worsening diffuse right upper and lower extremity pain, and central post-stroke pain was diagnosed. First-line agents were contraindicated due to medical comorbidities, and chronic kidney disease only permitted the...
Source: PMandR - September 26, 2015 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research