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Effective combined assessments of weight bearing ratio and four square step test in predicting falls in discharged stroke patients - Yoshimoto Y, Tanaka M, Sakamoto A.
BACKGROUND: We aimed to determine whether combined assessments of single movement tasks could predict falls in community dwelling people with stroke and it was more precision than the berg balance Scale consists of 14 movements. METHODS: This pro...
Source: SafetyLit - January 4, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Falls Source Type: news
Incidence of recurrent exertional heat stroke in a warm-weather road race - Stearns RL, Hosokawa Y, Adams WM, Belval LN, Huggins RA, Jardine JF, Katch RK, Davis RJ, Casa DJ.
Background and Objectives: Exertional heat stroke (EHS) survivors may be more susceptible to subsequent EHS; however, the occurrence of survivors with subsequent EHS episodes is limited. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to evaluate the incidence ...
Source: SafetyLit - December 31, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Environmental Issues, Climate, Geophysics Source Type: news
Blunt cerebrovascular injuries: early recognition and stroke prevention in the emergency department - Cadena R.
Blunt cerebrovascular injuries include cervical carotid dissections and vertebral artery dissections that are due to blunt trauma. Although the overall incidence is low, dissections remain a common cause of stroke in children, young adults, and trauma pati...
Source: SafetyLit - December 21, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Common challenges in returning to work after brain injury - Yeates G, Salter M, Hillier M.
Returning to work following an acquired brain injury (ABI, e.g. traumatic brain injury, stroke, infection, hypoxia) is a key aim for many survivors and is a marker of return to normality. For their managers and colleagues at work, there is also good will t...
Source: SafetyLit - December 21, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Readiness to change is related to real-world walking and depressive symptoms in chronic stroke - Miller A, Wright T, Wright H, Thompson E, Pohlig RT, Reisman DS.
This study aims to apply the transtheoretical model in understanding a person with stroke's readiness to ch...
Source: SafetyLit - December 17, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news
Delayed vertebral artery dissection after mild trauma in a motor vehicle collision - Kacprzynski G, Bucher J.
We present the case of a 42-year-old patient who presented to the emergency department with diaphoresis and a comp...
Source: SafetyLit - December 16, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Effects of walking with talus-stabilizing taping on passive range of motion, timed up and go, temporal parameters of gait, and fall risk in individuals with chronic stroke: a cross-sectional study - Park D, Cynn HS.
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of walking with talus-stabilizing taping on ankle dorsiflexion passive range of motion, the timed up-and-go test, temporal parameters of gait, and fall risk in individuals with chronic strok...
Source: SafetyLit - December 3, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news
Development of the Spanish version of the Wisconsin Gait Scale. Reliability and consistency analysis of spatial and temporal parameters with gait assessment in stroke patients - Murciano Casas MP, Zarco Peri ñán MJ, Corral López I, Álamo Vera V, Ferrand Ferri P, Barrera Chacón JM.
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: We aimed to perform a cross-cultural adaptation of the Wisconsin Gait Scale (WGS) to Spanish and ensure its reliability, validity and sensitivity.
MATERIAL AND METHOD: A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in patie...
Source: SafetyLit - December 1, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news
Early depression independently of other neuropsychiatric conditions, influences disability and mortality after stroke (research study-part of PROPOLIS Study) - Kowalska K, Krzywosza ński, Droś J, Pasińska P, Wilk A, Klimkowicz-Mrowiec A.
Post-stroke depression (PSD) is the most frequent neuropsychiatric consequence of stroke. The nature of the relationship between PSD and mortality still remains unknown. One hypothesis is that PSD could be more frequent in those patients who are more vulne...
Source: SafetyLit - November 28, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Effects of walking distance over robot-assisted training on walking ability in chronic stroke patients - Nankaku M, Tanaka H, Ikeguchi R, Kikuchi T, Miyamoto S, Matsuda S.
An understanding of the dose-response during training is important to identify the rehabilitation programs to obtain the improvement in chronic stroke patients. The purpose of this study was to determine whether distance-dose (distance walked across all se...
Source: SafetyLit - November 28, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Therapeutic effectiveness of a single exercise session combined with WalkAide functional electrical stimulation in post-stroke patients: a crossover design study - Elsner VR, Trevizol L, de Leon I, da Silva M, Weiss T, Braga M, Pochmann D, Blembeel AS, Dani C, Boggio E.
A growing body of evidence has suggested that the imbalance of epigenetic markers and oxidative stress appears to be involved in the pathophysiology and progression of stroke. Thus, strategies that modulate these biomarkers might be considered targets for ...
Source: SafetyLit - November 28, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news
Age- and sex-based differences in exertional heat stroke incidence in a 7-mile road race - Belval LN, Giersch GEW, Adams WM, Hosokawa Y, Jardine JF, Katch RK, Stearns RL, Casa DJ.
CONTEXT: Sex, age, and wet-bulb globe temperature (WBGT) have been proposed risk factors for exertional heat stroke (EHS) despite conflicting laboratory and epidemiologic evidence.
OBJECTIVE: To examine differences in EHS incidence while accounting for...
Source: SafetyLit - November 14, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Environmental Issues, Climate, Geophysics Source Type: news
Depression comorbid with stroke, traumatic brain injury, Parkinson's disease, and multiple sclerosis: diagnosis and treatment - Conroy SK, Brownlowe KB, McAllister TW.
Depression is common among patients with neurologic disorders, and it has long been considered more difficult to treat than depression in the general population. In this review, the authors consider challenges in the diagnosis and treatment of depression a...
Source: SafetyLit - November 13, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news
Effects of exergames training on postural balance in patients who had a chronic stroke: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial - Bessa NPOS, Lima Filho BF, Medeiros CSP, Ribeiro TS, Campos TF, Cavalcanti FAC.
This study describes a si...
Source: SafetyLit - November 11, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news
Cost-effectiveness of antithrombotic agents for atrial fibrillation in older adults at risk for falls: a mathematical modelling study - Wong EKC, Belza C, Naimark DMJ, Straus SE, Wijeysundera HC.
BACKGROUND: Antithrombotic drugs decrease stroke risk in patients with atrial fibrillation, but they increase bleeding risk, particularly in older adults at high risk for falls. We aimed to determine the most cost-effective antithrombotic therapy in older ...
Source: SafetyLit - November 11, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news
