Managing Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections After Spinal Cord Injury: Practical Approaches and Emerging Concepts.

The majority of individuals with neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction will have complicated urinary tract infections (UTIs) that will qualify as recurrent. Existing inconsistencies and challenges contribute to its subjective diagnosis. Thus, there is a pressing need for a reconceptualization of our understanding of UTI, accompanied by a paradigm shift in diagnosis and treatment approaches.

Validation of inertial measurement units for the assessment of trunk control in subjects with spinal cord injury.

Background: Trunk control (TC) constitutes one of the main objectives in the rehabilitation of people with a spinal cord injury (SCI), but there are few clinically validated tests to assess it. Accelerometers have been proposed as sensitive and suitable procedures to assess TC.

Objective: To evaluate test-retest reliability, construct and criterion validity of accelerometer parameters to assess TC in people with SCI.

Nerve transfer rehabilitation in tetraplegia: Comprehensive assessment and treatment program to improve upper extremity function before and after nerve transfer surgery, a case report.

Context: A 28-year-old male, sustained a traumatic Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) in January 2015, and was classified as AIS A, neurological level of injury (NLI) C4. As an inpatient at the SCI rehabilitation unit, he underwent multidisciplinary assessment involving SCI specialists, peripheral nerve surgeons, psychologists, occupational and physical therapists. Team consensus determined he was a candidate for nerve transfer surgery to improve upper extremity function.

Prognostic validity of a clinical trunk control test for independence and walking in individuals with spinal cord injury.

The objective of the present work was to determine the prognostic validity of the trunk control test for walking and independence in individuals with SCI. A cohort, prospective study was carried out in all individuals with sub-acute SCI. All inpatients at the Mexico City based National Rehabilitation Institute (INR).

Walking speed is not the best outcome to evaluate the effect of robotic assisted gait training in people with motor incomplete Spinal Cord Injury: A Systematic Review with meta-analysis.

Context: While there are previous systematic reviews on the effectiveness of the use of robotic-assisted gait training (RAGT) in people with spinal cord injuries (SCI), as this is a dynamic field, new studies have been produced that are now incorporated on this systematic review (SR) with meta-analysis, updating the available evidence on this area.

Objective: To synthesise the available evidence on the use of RAGT, to improve gait, strength and functioning.

Methods: SR and meta-analysis following the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions were implemented.

[Analysis of maternal deaths in Mexico occurred during 2009].

Background: Mexico reported 955 maternal deaths in 2011, with a ratio of 49 deaths per 100,000 live births. For 2015, the WHO commitment is to reduce the ratio to 22, equivalent to 415 maternal deaths.

Methods: it is a descriptive and retrospective study.

[Analysis of dengue fever deaths in Mexico: 2009].

Objective: to describe the dengue fever mortality.

Methods: a descriptive and retrospective study including 104 files reported deaths caused by dengue fever during 2009 to march 2010, was done.

Results: sixty (58 %) were women and 44 (42 %) men.