The use of prescription stimulants to enhance academic performance among college students in health care programs.

Purpose: Prescription stimulant use as academic performance enhancers is increasingly widespread among college students. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of prescription stimulant use among health care students attending a university in the northeastern United States. The study investigated the specific stimulants being used and the frequency of usage.

Upper limb surgery for tetraplegia: assessment of a 10-point strategy.

Purpose: Palliative motor surgery of the tetraplegic upper limb is well-defined, with relatively precise indications that however vary somewhat from team to team. Our personal indications originated mainly from Zancolli, and were applied by the same surgeon in two independent rehabilitation centers. The goals of this study were to assess the application of these indications with time.

[Satisfaction with technological equipment in individuals with tetraplegia following spinal cord injury].

Objective: To measure the acquisition, use and satisfaction with high technology equipment by spinal cord injured tetraplegic subjects.

Design And Setting: A questionnaire was mailed to 102 tetraplegic subjects who were hospitalised in the rehabilitation center of Kerpape (Ploemeur, France) between 1998 and 2004, and 59 subjects responded. The questionnaire asked about the use of telephones, computers, wheelchairs and environmental controls at home.

[Extensor tenodesis to the retinaculum extensorum: anatomic and biomechanical study].

Introduction: The extensor tenodesis is a direct dynamic tenodesis which is activated by wrist flexion due either to hand weight or flexor carpi radialis. This tenodesis is usually performed to the distal radius, but it is possible to fix EDC (extensor digitorum communis) to the retinaculum extensorum.

Material And Methods: Biomechanical study concerned 12 anatomical subjects (24 wrists).

Tendon transfers as applied to tetraplegia.

The techniques of the tendon transfers that are used primarily for the functional rehabilitation of upper limbs in tetraplegia are described in this article. The restoration of active elbow extension can be obtained either by biceps-to-triceps or by deltoid-to-triceps transfers. Grasp and key grip can be restored either by active or by passive tendon transfers.