Construction and feasibility study of the SOFMER Activity Score (SAS), a new assessment of physical and cognitive activity.

Objectives: For hospitalizations in rehabilitation centers (RCs) in France, the quantification of healthcare givers' activity is based on the dependency of the patients, defined as a total or partial inability to perform activities required for daily living without help. The tools currently used to quantify dependency are not sufficiently precise. Here we describe the construction of a new tool, the SOFMER Activity Score (SAS scoring), which allows for a good description of the level of activity of patients hospitalized in RCs, and a feasibility study of the tool.

[Functional outcome of tuberculous arthiritis of the knee in a male Moroccan patient].

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to present a case of tuberculous arthritis of the knee and discuss the importance of early diagnosis and rehabilitatin in management outcome.

Case Report: A 57-year-old Moroccan man with no medical history presented with a mass in the left knee associated with pain and fever. Analysis of aspirated fluid demonstrated sterile inflammatory liquid.

[Rehabilitation of war disabled people in the tropics: example from Colombia].

The purpose of this report is to describe collaboration between the health services of the Colombian and French armed forces. Colombia is a democratic country that has been undergoing a long period of insurrection resulting in a significant number of deaths and injuries. Permanent functional disabilities have taken high toll at both the individual and community level.

Haematoma of pectineus muscle after total hip arthroplasty.

The complications of total hip arthroplasty (THA) during the immediate postoperative period consist mainly in dislocation of the prosthesis, haematomas under antocoagulants, early infections, dismantling of osteotomy, neurological injury, heterotopic ossification and delayed restoration of the range of motion of the hip joint. We present here an infrequently described case of haematoma of the pectineus muscle following THA. Haematomas are not described in literature except in rare cases of compressive haematoma associated with neurological injury.

A 24-year-old patient with paraplegia and acquired urethral diverticulum: a case report.

Urethral diverticulum is a rare pathology in male patients. It is most often encountered in patients with paraplegia due to iterative catheterizations. The diagnosis of a large diverticulum is easy to make when faced with clinical symptoms, such as: repeated urinary tract infections, perineal pain and especially when there is penile swelling.