Study Design: Survey study.
Objectives: People living with spinal cord injury (SCI) are major healthcare and rehabilitation services consumers and have unmet healthcare needs. This study aimed to describe the socioeconomic characteristics of people living with SCI in Spain and to determine the level of use and satisfaction with the public healthcare system.
Rehabilitacion (Madr)
May 2022
Background And Objective: We aimed to perform a cross-cultural adaptation of the Wisconsin Gait Scale (WGS) to Spanish and ensure its reliability, validity and sensitivity.
Material And Method: A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in patients with stroke between September 2017 and March 2019. We developed the Spanish version through the translation-back-translation method, and reached a consensus on the problematic items.
BMC Urol
July 2013
Background: Patients with non-acute spinal cord injury that carry indwelling urinary catheters have an increased risk of urinary tract infection (UTIs). Antiseptic Silver Alloy-Coated Silicone Urinary Catheters seems to be a promising intervention to reduce UTIs; however, actual evidence cannot be extrapolated to spinal cord injured patients. The aim of this trial is to make a comparison between the use of antiseptic silver alloy-coated silicone urinary catheters and the use of standard urinary catheters in spinal cord injured patients to prevent UTIs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Pompe's disease is a metabolic myopathy caused by a deficiency of the enzyme alpha-glucosidase. Patients with late-onset Pompe's disease have progressive muscle weakness, which also affects pulmonary function. Since the advent of specific treatment for Pompe's disease, enzyme replacement therapy with alpha-glucosidase, the prognosis of the disease has changed.
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