Treadmill training augmented with real-time visualisation feedback and function electrical stimulation for gait rehabilitation after stroke: a feasibility study.

Background: Stroke rehabilitation often uses the motor relearning concept that require patients to perform active practice of skill-specific training and to receive feedback. Treadmill training augmented with real-time visualisation feedback and functional electrical stimulation may have a beneficial synergistic effect on motor recovery. This study aims to determine the feasibility of this kind of enhanced treadmill training for gait rehabilitation among patients after stroke.

Feasibility of a proactive text messaging intervention for smokers in community health centers.

Introduction: Few smokers receive evidence-based cessation services during primary care visits. We aimed to assess the feasibility of a proactive text messaging program for primary care patients who smoke.

Methods: We used electronic health records (EHRs) to identify smokers from two Massachusetts community health centers who had a mobile phone number listed.

Biomedical journals: keeping up and reading critically.

By extrapolation from studies of physicians, knowledge and practice of laboratory animal medicine and science are expected to become progressively more outdated the longer practitioners are out of school. Keeping up with current literature and practice is a challenge that necessitates the use of many different sources of continuing education. Both veterinarians and physicians consistently list journals as the most beneficial source of new information.

Quantitative sensory testing cannot differentiate simulated sensory loss from sensory neuropathy.

Objective: To differentiate the quantitative sensory testing (QST) results of subjects simulating small and large fiber sensory loss from those of normal subjects and subjects with sensory peripheral neuropathy.

Background: QST is used to measure sensory thresholds in clinical, epidemiologic, and research studies. It is not known whether there are objective test results that characterize the subject seeking to deceive the examiner.