Gait Acquisition with a Quadrilateral Socket after Ultra-short Transfemoral Amputation because of Staphylococcal Toxic Shock Syndrome.

Background: Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS) is a notifiable disease under Japan's Infectious Disease Control Law and has become a pandemic following COVID-19. STSS often leads to necrotizing fasciitis, with a mortality rate exceeding 30%. Even in surviving patients, limb amputations are common.

Inhibitory transcranial direct current stimulation enhances weak beta event-related synchronization after foot motor imagery in patients with lower limb amputation.

Purpose: Sensorimotor rhythm patterns in patients with lower limb amputations might be altered because of reorganization of the sensorimotor cortices. The authors evaluated the sensorimotor rhythm of motor imagery (MI) in healthy subjects and patients with lower limb amputations. In addition, the authors investigated whether transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) could modulate sensorimotor rhythm control.

Development of involuntary movements after ventriculoperitoneal shunting for normal pressure hydrocephalus in a patient with chronic-phase thalamic haemorrhage.

Background: Delayed-onset involuntary movements have been described after thalamic stroke.

Methods: We treated a patient with involuntary movements that increased after ventriculoperitoneal shunting (VPS) for normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) following thalamic haemorrage. One and one-half years after right thalamic and intraventricular haemorrhage, NPH suggested clinical evaluation and neuroimaging studies in a 56-year-old man.

Long-term effect of low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation over the unaffected posterior parietal cortex in patients with unilateral spatial neglect.

Objective: To explore long-term effects on unilateral spatial neglect of low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) over the unaffected posterior parietal cortex.

Design: Uncontrolled pilot study.

Subjects: Two chronic-phase patients with left-sided unilateral spatial neglect from cerebral infarction.