Determinants of Quality of Life in Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury Using Structural Equation Modeling.

Objective: The objective of this study is to examine the interdependent associations between International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) domains and their relationship with environmental factors with regard to quality of life (QoL) in individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI).

Design: Survey, cross-sectional study, and model testing using structural equation modeling.

Setting: Two inpatient and outpatient SCI rehabilitation units, Sheba Medical Center and Loewenstein Hospital, Israel.

Detecting muscle activation using ultrasound speed of sound inversion with deep learning.

Functional muscle imaging is essential for diagnostics of a multitude of musculoskeletal afflictions such as degenerative muscle diseases, muscle injuries, muscle atrophy, and neurological related issues such as spasticity. However, there is currently no solution, imaging or otherwise, capable of providing a map of active muscles over a large field of view in dynamic scenarios.In this work, we look at the feasibility of applying longitudinal sound speed measurements to the task of dynamic muscle imaging of contraction or activation.

Assessment of the unmediated relationship between neurological impairment and health-related quality of life following spinal cord injury.

To assess the unmediated association between neurological impairment and quality of life (QoL) among persons with spinal cord injury (SCI), in the context of both early post-acute and long-term rehabilitation settings. An observational prospective cross-sectional study. Two neurological rehabilitation centers, specializing in spinal cord injury, within a university hospital.

Safety and tolerance of the ReWalk™ exoskeleton suit for ambulation by people with complete spinal cord injury: a pilot study.

Objectives: The objective of the study was to evaluate the safety and tolerance of use of the ReWalk™ exoskeleton ambulation system in people with spinal cord injury. Measures of functional ambulation were also assessed and correlated to neurological spinal cord level, age, and duration since injury.

Study Design: Case series observational study.

Bulbocavernosus reflex testing: a preliminary study on the prognostic factors for potency and response to sildenafil citrate after bilateral nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy.

Objective: Erectile dysfunction (ED) following radical prostatectomy is of major concern for both patients and caring physicians. We evaluated the bulbocavernosus reflex latency (BCRL) and amplitude (BCRA) following bilateral nerve-sparing radical retropubic prostatectomy (NS-RRP) to predict the response to sildenafil citrate (SC).

Methods: Patients were recruited in our ED clinic following NS-RRP.

Heterotopic ossification of the vocal cords after spinal cord injury.

Background/objective: To report a rare complication of heterotopic ossification of the vocal cords after spinal cord and multiple organ injuries.

Study Design: Case report.

Setting: Acute rehabilitation in the Department of Neurologic Rehabilitation.

Use of medical technologies in rehabilitation medicine settings in Israel: results of the TECHNO-R 2005 survey.

Background: With the development of computer technology and the high-tech electronic industry over the past 30 years, the technological age is flourishing. New technologies are continually being introduced, and questions regarding the economic viability of these technologies need to be addressed.

Objectives: To identify the medical technologies currently in use in different rehabilitation medicine settings in Israel.

Mini-Mental State Examination, cognitive FIM instrument, and the Loewenstein Occupational Therapy Cognitive Assessment: relation to functional outcome of stroke patients.

Objectives: To compare 3 cognitive tests, used on admission, for predicting discharge functional outcome and to assess the efficacy of these tests in predicting functional outcome at discharge in stroke patients undergoing rehabilitation.

Design: Cohort study.

Setting: Geriatric rehabilitation department of a tertiary care hospital in Israel.