The Clinical and Sonographic Features of Cervical Muscle Involvement in Patients with Frozen Shoulder: A Retrospective Study.

: Frozen shoulder is a common shoulder disorder that often places limitations on the range of motion of the shoulder. The disease may induce neck pain due to overuse of the neck muscle in an attempt to compensate for lack of shoulder movement. In clinical practice, swelling and inflammation of the scalene and levator scapulae may be detected via sonography in patients with frozen shoulder.

Foot Plantar Pressure Profile Alteration after Microsurgical Great Toe-to-thumb Transfer.

Background: Microsurgical great toe-to-thumb transfer (mGTT) is a widely used procedure when immediate replantation of thumb is not feasible. The aim of this study was to investigate the alteration of plantar pressure profile of the donor foot after mGTT.

Methods: Twenty patients receiving microsurgical great toe-to-hand transfer between 1985 to 2014, and 16 healthy subjects were recruited.

Improvement of Pain and Function by Using Botulinum Toxin Type A Injection in Patients with an Osteoarthritic Knee with Patellar Malalignment: An Electromyographic Study.

Objective: To determine the pain and electromyographic (EMG) amplitude ratio of the vastus medialis oblique (VMO) to the vastus lateralis (VL) after botulinum toxin type A (BTA) was injected in the bilateral osteoarthritic knee of patients with patellar malalignment for analysis. Material and methods: A total of fifteen patients were recruited; the more symptomatic knee of each patient received a BTA injection (BTA side). The other set of patients were left untreated.

The effects of heel-elevated total contact insole on rearfoot pressure reduction in heel injury patients who had neurosensory impairment after receiving reconstructive flap operations.

Objective: To evaluate the effects of a custom-molded heel-elevated total contact insole (TCI) on rearfoot pressure reduction and heel cushion for patients with heel-reconstruction.

Methods: Eleven patients with unilateral heel-reconstruction were recruited in this study. Maximal force and plantar pressures (peak pressure and pressure-time integral) at three different areas (heel Midfoot and forefoot) were measured under 3 randomized conditions (shoe-only flat insole and heel- elevated TCI) after wearing a heel-elevated TCI for 3 months.

Muscle activation features of the osteoarthritic knee with patellar lateral subluxation.

Objective: The aim of the study was to compare the muscle activation feature of vastus medialis obliquus (VMO) and vastus lateralis (VL) between the osteoarthritic knee patients with patellar lateral subluxation (Group 1B) and without patellar lateral subluxation (Group 1A).

Methods: Isokinetic muscle strength of the knee extensor was evaluated using a CYBEX NORM dynamometer with angular velocities of 80, 120 and 240 degrees/second (°/sec) respectively, contraction activities of VMO and VL muscle were recorded with synchronized surface electromyography (sEMG). Age-matched healthy subjects were recruited and served as control group (Group 2).

Anterior knee pain caused by patellofemoral pain syndrome can be relieved by Botulinum toxin type A injection.

Objective: To investigate the therapeutic effects of Botulinum toxin type A (BTA) for anterior knee pain caused by patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS).

Design: Prospective case control study for intervention.

Setting: A tertiary hospital rehabilitation center.

Kinetics features changes before and after intra-articular hyaluronic acid injections in patients with knee osteoarthritis.

Objectives: To examine the kinetic features in patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA) after intra-articular hyaluronic acid (IAHA) injections in different time periods.

Design: A single group repeated measures study.

Setting: Gait laboratory in a tertiary hospital.

Intra-articular intervention by hyaluronic acid for knee osteoarthritis can modify locomotor pattern of muscle activity.

Objective: To evaluate the muscle activation pattern of lower extremities can be modified by intraarticular injection of hyaluronic acid( IAHA).

Material And Method: Twenty-three subjects with knee OA and 14 age-matched non-knee OA control subjects were recruited from an outpatient clinic. Three-dimensional gait analysis with using the MA- 100 EMG system was applied to measure the muscles activities.