Physical activity based on daily steps in patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain: evolution and associated factors.

Background: People with chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMSP) often have low physical activity. Various factors can influence the activity level. The aim of this study was to monitor physical activity, assessed by the number of steps per day, over time in people with CMSP and identify factors that could be associated with this activity feature.

Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the French version of the Spinal Cord Injury Pain Instrument (SCIPI).

Study Design: Cross-sectional.

Objectives: To assess the reliability and validity of the French version of the Spinal Cord Injury Pain Instrument (SCIPI) and to determine its performance versus "Douleur Neuropathique 4 questions" (DN4) in diagnosing neuropathic pain (NeuP).

Setting: Clinique romande de réadaptation, spinal cord injury (SCI) center in the French-speaking part of Switzerland.

Postural control in healthy adults: Determinants of trunk sway assessed with a chest-worn accelerometer in 12 quiet standing tasks.

Many diseases and conditions decrease the ability to control balance. In clinical settings, there is therefore a major interest in the assessment of postural control. Trunk accelerometry is an easy, low-cost method used for balance testing and constitutes an alternative method to the posturography using force platforms.

Maximum Lyapunov exponent revisited: Long-term attractor divergence of gait dynamics is highly sensitive to the noise structure of stride intervals.

Background: The local dynamic stability method (maximum Lyapunov exponent) can assess gait stability. Two variants of the method exist: the short-term divergence exponent (DE), and the long-term DE. Only the short-term DE can predict fall risk.

Immediate and short-term effects of kinesiotaping on muscular activity, mobility, strength and pain after rotator cuff surgery: a crossover clinical trial.

Background: Kinesiotape (KT) is widely used in musculoskeletal rehabilitation as an adjuvant to treatment, but minimal evidence supports its use. The aim of this study is to determine the immediate and short-term effects of shoulder KT on muscular activity, mobility, strength and pain after rotator cuff surgery.

Methods: Thirty-nine subjects who underwent shoulder rotator cuff surgery were tested 6 and 12 weeks post-surgery, without tape, with KT and with a sham tape (ST).