Study Design: A pre-post observational study.
Objectives: To evaluate the safety and feasibility of a new rehabilitation robotic device for assisting individuals with lower extremity motor complete lesions following spinal cord injury (SCI).
Setting: Three hospitals in Sichuan Province, China.
Kaohsiung J Med Sci
November 2012
This study's aim is provide an overview of the patients who suffered spinal cord injury (SCI) after the magnitude 8.0 Wenchuan earthquake, including each patient's demographic and epidemiological characteristics, bladder management status, and quality of life (QOL). We also assessed the relationships between bladder management methods, symptomatic urinary tract infection (SUTI), and QOL.
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February 2007
There are many therapies to treat the trismus, such as durg therapy, occulusal splints, pulsing electromagnetic fields, medical iontophoresis, laser, acupuncture. But there are no objective criterias about the most effective methods. The patient with trismus after extraction was cured by using comprehensive rehabilitation including physical therapy (ultrashort wave electrotherapy, medical iontophoresis, middle frequency electrical therapy), traditional Chinese manipulation, functional training, muscular and joints traction.
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