[Strength training with elastic bands: measure of its effects in cardiac rehabilitation after coronary diseases].

Objectives: To compare high intensity strength training with weightlifting exercises or with elastic bands.

Setting: Outpatient unit of cardiac rehabilitation. TYPE: Prospective randomised clinical trial.

[Is it necessary to rehabilitate coronary artery disease patients based on ventilatory threshold?].

Purpose: To compare the efficiency of two programs of exercise-based rehabilitation that are different for heart rate (HR) training in patients with coronary artery disease: heart rate (HR) according to Karvonen formula (HR training =70% (max HR -rest HR) +rest HR) or HR recorded at the gas exchange ventilatory threshold (VT). TYPE: Controlled randomised clinical trial.

Setting: Cardiovascular rehabilitation unit.

[Vascular explorations in the diagnosis of algodystrophy].

We applied to a group of 44 patients, clinically affected by algodystrophy, a protocol of vascular explorations (Doppler, capillaroscopy, basal plethysmography, reactive hyperemia test and measurements of the oxygen transcutaneous pressure) in order to analyze their contribution to the detection of such disease, concluding that Doppler, capillaroscopy and plethysmography do not contribute with quantifiable results. On the contrary, the reactive hyperemia test and the measurements of the oxygen transcutaneous pressure showed up as explorations able to quantify the degree of microcirculatory disorder in the algodystrophy and to allow its evolutive follow-up.

[Chemical neurolysis using alcohol (alcoholization) in the treatment of spasticity in the hemiplegic].

Spasticity is a source of disability for the hemiplegic patient. It leads to various disorders influencing the quality of gait: at the lower limb varus equinus foot deformity, toe-claw and/or hip adduction with adductors spasticity. At the upper limb, flexion deformity of the wrist and the hand makes grasp and grip ineffective and spasticity of the Pectoralis Major muscle is considered as a main cause of sympathetic dystrophy.

[Biphotonic absorptiometry of the foot: methodology and application to algodystrophy].

A simple methodology for the evaluation of the bone mineral content of the foot by biphotonic absorptiometry is described. From the study of a test population, a pathological demineralization threshold of 10%, given that the measurement is expressed in g, has been defined at the level of the forepart of the tarsus. This threshold enables the significant distinction between the test population and a population with algodystrophy.