Effects of a 6-month self-rehabilitation programme in addition to botulinum toxin injections and conventional physiotherapy on limitations of patients with spastic hemiparesis following stroke (ADJU-TOX): protocol study for a randomised controlled, investigator blinded study.

Introduction: Home-based self-rehabilitation programmes combined with botulinum toxin injections (BTIs) appear to be a relevant approach to increase the recommended intensive rehabilitation of patients with spasticity following a stroke. The literature highlights a lack of evidence of beneficial effects of this adjuvant therapy to reduce limitations of patients with stroke. The aim of this study is to assess the effects of a 6-month self-rehabilitation programme in adjunction to BTI, in comparison with BTI alone, to reduce limitations of patients with spasticity following a stroke.

Braun's flexor tendons transfer in disabled hands by central nervous system lesions.

Introduction: Since Braun's article, the nonfunctional hand of brain-injured patients has not been the subject of many publications. The objective of surgical treatment is to open the hand for hygiene and cosmetic reasons. The technique consists in lengthening the extrinsic flexor tendons group.

[A rare cause of constipation: neurinoma of the fourth lumbar nerve. Case report and review of the literature ].

Constipation is a symptom not to be neglected, especially if the complaint is recent. We report a case where this symptom was the only clinical manifestation of a voluminous retroperitoneal tumor. The tumor was found to be a neurilemmoma of the fourth right lumbar roots, confirmed at pathological examination.