A novel telerehabilitation with an educational program for caregivers using telelecture is feasible for fall prevention in elderly people: A case series.

Background: The importance of fall prevention rehabilitations has been well recognized. Recently telerehabilitation was developed, however, there have been no reports on telerehabilitation with direct support from specialists for fall prevention among the elderly. We herein reported telerehabilitation by caregivers educated by our novel educational program.

Hearing profile and MRI myelination of auditory pathway in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease.

Conclusions: This study showed that delayed auditory pathway myelination is common in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (PMD), but this delay does not necessarily indicate poor hearing function.

Objective: PMD is a rare recessively inherited X-linked leukodystrophy characterized by defective central nervous system myelination owing to a mutation in the proteolipid protein gene (PLP). The aims of this study were to evaluate the hearing function and auditory brain response (ABR) findings of patients with PMD and relate these findings to MRI-assessed myelination in the central auditory pathway.

Three young adult patients with Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease who showed only waves I and II in auditory brainstem responses but had good auditory perception.

Three young adult males with Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease have been followed up since childhood. This disease is thought to be a dysmyelinating disorder of the brain during the prenatal period caused by gene mutations. The patients manifested horizontal nystagmus and severe rigidity of the extremities.