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Motor and sensory effects of ipsilesional upper extremity hypothermia and contralesional sensory training for chronic stroke patients.
CONCLUSIONS: The use of immersion hypothermia on the ipsilesional UE in association with sensory training of the contralesional UE improved motor function and sensitivity in the contralesional UE of individuals with chronic stroke. Immersion hypothermia of the ipsilesional UE in chronic stroke patients is a safe, practical, inexpensive, and easily applied technique. PMID: 25776120 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation - February 1, 2015 Category: Neurology Authors: Lima NM, Menegatti KC, Yu É, Sacomoto NY, Oberg TD, Honorato DC Tags: Top Stroke Rehabil Source Type: research

Cryotherapy reduces muscle hypertonia, but does not affect lower limb strength or gait kinematics post-stroke: a randomized controlled crossover study.
CONCLUSIONS: The findings of this study suggest that cryotherapy applied to the calf muscles of subjects with chronic hemiparesis reduces muscle hypertonia but does not improve dorsiflexors and plantarflexors performance and gait parameters. PMID: 31012824 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation - April 25, 2019 Category: Neurology Authors: Alcantara CC, Blanco J, De Oliveira LM, Ribeiro PFS, Herrera E, Nakagawa TH, Reisman DS, Michaelsen SM, Garcia LC, Russo TL Tags: Top Stroke Rehabil Source Type: research

Re. Alcantara et al. Cryotherapy reduces muscle hypertonia, but does not affect lower limb strength or gait kinematics post-stroke: a randomized controlled crossover study. Top Stroke Rehabil 2019; 26(4): 267-280.
PMID: 32886572 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation - September 3, 2020 Category: Neurology Authors: Couto MCD Tags: Top Stroke Rehabil Source Type: research

Physical therapy interventions for the correction of equinus foot deformity in post-stroke patients with triceps spasticity: A scoping review
ConclusionsThis scoping review summarized available primary literature based on PT treatments for the correction of EFD. By highlighting the remaining gaps in knowledge, it provides a reference for future studies on this pathology. Further investigations are necessary to pinpoint the best dosage and delivery methods. Future studies should investigate whether early rehabilitation programs started during the acute phase might help prevent or limit the development of secondary deformities.
Source: Frontiers in Neurology - October 28, 2022 Category: Neurology Source Type: research

Cryotherapy Reduces Muscle Spasticity But Does Not Affect Proprioception in Ischemic Stroke: A Randomized Sham-Controlled Crossover Study
Conclusions Cryotherapy (using an ice pack) may reduce plantar flexor spasticity without influencing proprioception.
Source: American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation - December 19, 2018 Category: Rehabilitation Tags: Original Research Articles Source Type: research

Harnessing the Four Elements for Mental Health
DiscussionAs detailed above, the “elements” in both a classical and a contemporary sense have effects on our mental health and are potentially modifiable aspects that can be harnessed as therapeutic interventions. The most robust interventional evidence currently available shows tentative support for several use of the elements via horticultural and nature-exposure therapy, green exercise/physical activity, sauna and heat therapy, balneotherapy, and breathing exercises. It should be noted that, in many cases, these interventions were not studied in definitive diagnosed psychiatric disorders and thus it is pre...
Source: Frontiers in Psychiatry - April 23, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Voodoo Medicine: Time To Stop
The world's most celebrated athlete standing on the podium in Rio in honor of receiving yet another gold medal has something important in common with your lazy uncle throwing back a cold one in his Barcalounger. Yes, swimming powerhouse Michael Phelps, purple-spotted from cupping therapy, and your slovenly relative with a beer gut both share a bond -- a weakness in succumbing to the allure of voodoo medicine. Modern-day snake oil salesmen hawking quick cures and TV doctors peddling the latest diet miracle with blatantly ridiculous claims are everywhere on the tube, social media, the supermarket and old-fashioned billboards...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - August 12, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news

Thermal and hemodynamic response to whole-body cryostimulation in healthy subjects.
In conclusion, the present findings suggest that WBC strongly stimulates the baroreceptor cardiac reflex in response to body fluid changes which sequentially modulate HR and BP control in supine and resting healthy subjects. The study was performed on randomized and homogenic group of young healthy subjects. Our findings are important for WBC safety determination in research and clinical studies. PMID: 23535554 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Cryobiology - May 23, 2013 Category: Biology Authors: Zalewski P, Klawe JJ, Pawlak J, Tafil-Klawe M, Newton J Tags: Cryobiology Source Type: research

Surgical Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation.
This article provides an overview of current surgical strategies for patients with atrial fibrillation and addresses the two main goals in its management. PMID: 26306128 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Methodist DeBakey Cardiovascular Journal - April 1, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Ramlawi B, Abu Saleh WK Tags: Methodist Debakey Cardiovasc J Source Type: research

Cerebral bleeding during a cryotherapy session: A case report.
CONCLUSION: We hypothesize that the whole-body cryotherapy was responsible for this stroke. PMID: 32994067 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Revue de Medecine Interne - October 2, 2020 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: Rev Med Interne Source Type: research