Intramuscular electrical stimulation for shoulder pain in hemiplegia: does time from stroke onset predict treatment success?

Background: A randomized clinical has shown the effectiveness of intramuscular electrical stimulation for the treatment of poststroke shoulder pain.

Objective: Identify predictors of treatment success and assess the impact of the strongest predictor on outcomes.

Method: This is a secondary analysis of a multisite randomized clinical trial of intramuscular electrical stimulation for poststroke shoulder pain.

Poststroke shoulder pain: its relationship to motor impairment, activity limitation, and quality of life.

Objective: To assess the relationship between poststroke shoulder pain, upper-limb motor impairment, activity limitation, and pain-related quality of life (QOL).

Design: Cross-sectional, secondary analysis of baseline data from a multisite clinical trial.

Setting: Outpatient rehabilitation clinics of 7 academic medical centers.

Intramuscular neuromuscular electric stimulation for poststroke shoulder pain: a multicenter randomized clinical trial.

Objective: To assess the effectiveness of intramuscular neuromuscular electric stimulation (NMES) in reducing poststroke shoulder pain.

Design: Multicenter, single-blinded, randomized clinical trial.

Setting: Ambulatory centers of 7 academic rehabilitation centers in the United States.

Stroke rehabilitation. 3. Rehabilitation management.

This self-directed learning module highlights new advances in the treatment of patients after stroke by means of a case study format. It is part of the chapter on stroke rehabilitation in the Self-Directed Physiatric Education Program for practitioners and trainees in physical medicine and rehabilitation. This article discusses both medical and rehabilitation issues that arise in the care of persons with strokes involving the right and left middle cerebral arteries and the vertebral artery.