Publications by authors named "Jacques Pelissier"

Acetabular cup orientation (inclination and anteversion) is a fundamental topic in orthopaedics and depends on pelvis tilt (positional parameter) emphasising the notion of a safe range of pelvis tilt. The hypothesis was that pelvic incidence (morphologic parameter) could yield a more accurate and reliable assessment than pelvis tilt. The aim was to find out a predictive equation of acetabular 3D orientation parameters which were determined by pelvic incidence to include in the model.

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Chronic diseases are diseases of long duration and slow progression. Major NCDs (cardiovascular diseases, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases, diabetes, rheumatologic diseases and mental health) represent the predominant health problem of the Century. The prevention and control of NCDs are the priority of the World Health Organization 2008 Action Plan, the United Nations 2010 Resolution and the European Union 2010 Council.

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Objective: Although 40 assessment tools are described in the literature, very few of them have been correctly validated. The Standardized Index of Shoulder Function (FI2S) encompasses pain, mobility, strength and function. The aim of this work is to describe the FI2S and to study its construct validity, reliability and responsiveness to change.

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The objective is to define as early as possible appropriate criteria for managing patients who have had a cerebrovascular accident (CVA), or stroke, beginning in the Neurovascular and Acute Care Services, in order to facilitate the patient's return home (or the equivalent of home) or continuing care in the most appropriate health care facility.

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Objective: To assess the sensitivity to change of two depression scales for stroke patients: the Aphasic Depression Rating Scale (ADRS), which is a 9-item external assessment, and the Visual Analog Mood Scale (VAMS), which is a visual self-assessment scale.

Patients: Forty-nine stroke patients admitted to two rehabilitation units.

Methods: Symptoms of depression were assessed twice at a one-month interval (D0-D30) using the ADRS, the VAMS, and by a trained psychologist (PSY).

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There is still conflicting evidence about the influence of fatigue on trunk reflex activity. The aim of this study was to measure response latency and amplitude changes of lumbar and abdominal muscles after heavy external force perturbation applied to the trunk in the sagittal plane before and after back muscle fatigue, in expected and unexpected conditions. Ten healthy subjects in a semi-seated position, torso upright in a specific apparatus performed an intermittent back muscle fatigue protocol.

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Camptocormia is an abnormal posture with marked flexion of thoracolumbar spine that abates in the recumbent position. Camptocormia has been described in various neurological (Parkinsonism), muscular (myopathy), psychogenic or orthopedic disorders. There are several hypotheses that can explain this impaired posture but they are usually related to the concomitant pathologies.

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Background Context: There is little information about the simultaneous changes of intramuscular pressure (IMP) and oxygen saturation (StO(2)) of the paraspinal muscle under various conditions of posture and load.

Purpose: To measure simultaneously and compare IMP and StO(2) across a range of static trunk postures commonly observed during normal work tasks.

Study Design: A prospective study using a repeated-measure design in clinical setting.

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Article Synopsis
  • - This study aimed to explore how the pelvic incidence angle relates to pelvic floor disorders, suggesting that a larger pelvic incidence may predict perineal descent in women.
  • - Researchers analyzed 197 women using defecography to measure perineal descent at rest and during straining, establishing that a higher pelvic incidence angle (64 degrees) correlated with pelvic floor descent compared to those without it.
  • - The findings indicate that a pelvic incidence angle greater than 62 degrees could serve as a predictive factor for perineal descent, highlighting its potential role in understanding pelvic floor integrity before other issues arise.
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Objectives: To assess the reproducibility and the effects of the subjects' characteristics on the reproducibility of transcutaneous oxygen pressure (TcPO2) measurements in the sacral area in persons with spinal cord injury during loading in the supine position.

Design: Test-retest study.

Setting: Physical medicine and rehabilitation center.

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Muscle spasticity causes pain, disability, and difficulties in the rehabilitation of patients with cerebrovascular lesions, head, brain or spine trauma, coma, or neurologic diseases such as multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or cerebral palsy. Regional blocks have a threefold use in patients with painful spasticity: diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic. Blocks are feasible on an outpatient or day-hospital basis.

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Objective: To develop clinical practice guidelines for the use of foot orthotics (FO) in the treatment of knee and hip osteoarthritis.

Method: The SOFMER (French Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Society) methodology, associating a systematic review of the literature, input from every day clinical practice and external review by a multidisciplinary expert committee, was used. The selected analysis criteria were pain, disability, medications used and X-ray evolution of osteoarthritis.

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Background And Purpose: To analyze the postural behavior of standing stroke patients: (1) To differentiate between postural impairment attributable to the neurological condition (deficits attributable to the cerebral lesion) and postural impairment attributable to new mechanical constraints caused by body weight asymmetry; (2) To assess the involvement of each limb in the postural impairment; (3) To better understand which clinical deficits underlie the postural impairment.

Methods: The posturographic characteristics of each limb in 41 stroke patients (first hemispheric stroke: 16 left, 25 right cerebral lesions) required to stand in their preferred posture were compared to those in 40 matched healthy individuals required to stand asymmetrically.

Results: Compared to normal individuals in a similar asymmetrical posture, stroke patients were more unstable.

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Study Design: Prospective study of self-assessed symptom severity.

Objectives: To carry out a comparative semiological analysis of pain in scoliotic and nonscoliotic adults with low back pain, and to study the factors that correlate with the severity of pain in scoliotic patients.

Summary Of Background Data: Low back pain is a frequent complaint in subjects with adult lumbar scoliosis.

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No pain scale is available for stroke patients due to the presence of language or cognitive disorders. However, the Faces Pain Scale (FPS), which was initially developed for children, has been used with success in adults with cognitive impairments. The aim of this study is to test whether the FPS could be used in left or right hemispheric stroke patients (LHSP, RHSP).

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The aim of this study was to assess pelvic asymmetry (i.e. to determine whether the right iliac bone and the right part of the sacrum are mirror images of the left), both quantitatively and qualitatively, using three-dimensional measurements.

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This study investigated and compared the gait of two patients with spinal muscular atrophy, type II (SMA II) and two patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). These diseases cause a progressive and proximal to distal muscular weakness resulting in the loss of ambulation. The DMD cases had comparable muscle weakness with the SMA II cases on manual muscle testing and patients were assessed using kinematics, kinetics, electromyography and video analysis.

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Background And Purpose: The Aphasic Depression Rating Scale (ADRS) was developed to detect and measure depression in aphasic patients during the subacute stage of stroke.

Methods: Six experts selected an initial sampling of behavioral items from existing depression rating scales. Stroke patients (aphasic and nonaphasic) were assessed with these items by the rehabilitation staff, with the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS) for nonaphasic patients only, by a psychiatrist, and by the rehabilitation staff with Visual Analog Scales (VAS).

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Objective: To investigate whether pusher behavior (ie, a tendency among stroke patients with spatial deficits to actively push away from the nonparalyzed side and to resist any attempt to hold a more upright posture) affects only the trunk, for which gravitational feedback is given by somesthetic information, or the head as well, whose gravitational information is mainly given by the vestibular system (without vision).

Design: Description and measurement of clinical features.

Setting: Rehabilitation center research laboratory.

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Neurolytic blockade is one of the therapeutic possibilities to treat spasticity of various muscles. In patients with spasticity of the adductor thigh muscles, a percutaneous approach to the obturator nerve is often difficult. We describe a new approach to the obturator nerve and we examine its feasibility.

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Objective: To evaluate clinical prognostic factors of complex regional pain syndrome type I (CRPS I) in patients with stroke in an attempt to improve the Perrigot score, which does not include shoulder subluxation, unilateral neglect, or depression.

Design: This was a prospective study. The initial clinical data (first month) included motor index, Ashworth scale, de Bats score for shoulder subluxation, Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale, and sensory disorders evaluation.

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