Outpatient rehabilitation in post-acute COVID-19 patients: a combined progressive treatment protocol.

Purpose: to investigate the effectiveness of a 4-week combined progressive program on functional abilities, disability status and quality of life (QoL) in COVID-19 recovered patients.

Materials & Methods: 18 COVID-19 recovered patients performed a combined rehabilitation treatment accounting for 12 sessions, including both respiratory and motor training sessions. A careful monitoring of exercise intensity, duration and progression to tailor complexity evolution on patients' competencies was carried out.

Predicting the functional outcome of intensive inpatient rehabilitation after stroke: results from the RIPS Study.

Background: The complexity of stroke sequelae, the heterogeneity of outcome measures and rehabilitation pathways, and the lack of extensively validated prediction models represent a challenge in predicting stroke rehabilitation outcomes.

Aim: To prospectively investigate a multidimensional set of variables collected at admission to inpatient post-stroke rehabilitation as potential predictors of the functional level at discharge.

Design: Multicentric prospective observational study.

Type 2 diabetes mellitus and obesity: The synergistic effects on human locomotor function.

Background: Diabetes Mellitus and obesity represent two chronic multifactorial conditions which may induce modifications in human motion strategy. Our study focused on gaining insight into biomechanical aspects of gait occurring in patients affected by both aforementioned pathologies.

Methods: One hundred subjects were recruited and divided into four groups: 25 obese-diabetic patients with peripheral neuropathy; 25 obese non-diabetic patients; 25 non-obese diabetic patients with peripheral neuropathy; 25 healthy volunteers participated as a control group.

Axonal polineuropathy associated with Sars-CoV 2 infection: a case report.

World healthcare systems are dealing with the pandemic of the severe Coronavirus disease 19 (Covid-19). Covid-19 neurological manifestations affecting both central and peripheral nervous systems have been reported. We describe the case of 44-year-old patient, who was admitted to our Rehabilitation Unit after discharge from intensive care unit for severe Covid-19 related respiratory failure.

Perceived fatigue, lower limb muscle force and performance fatigability after a rehabilitation program in Multiple Sclerosis.

Muscle weakness and fatigue represent frequent disabling symptoms for Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients. We evaluated the effects of an intensive task-oriented circuit training (TOCT) on perceived fatigue, muscle strength and changes in motor performance fatigability in mildly impaired MS patients. Fifteen MS patients performed different functional scales, self-reported questionnaires and instrumental evaluations before (T0) and after (T1) TOCT.