Publications by authors named "Paolo Casillo"
Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of cognitive rehabilitation in a group of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients.
Methods: Thirty-four patients were included in this study and randomly allocated either to treatment with multidisciplinary rehabilitation plus cognitive training or to treatment with multidisciplinary rehabilitation alone.
Results: After 3 months of cognitive treatment, the patients assigned to the rehabilitation plus cognitive training group displayed an improvement in the cognitive test of executive function and a marked improvement in quality of life (QoL).
Background: Robotic training is commonly used to assist walking training in patients affected by multiple sclerosis (MS) with non-conclusive results.
Objective: To compare the effect of robot-assisted gait training (RAGT) with that of conventional walking training (CWT) on gait competencies, global ability, fatigue and spasticity in a group of severely affected patients with MS.
Methods: A pilot, single-blind randomized controlled trial was conducted in 43 severe (Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) score of 6-7.
Background: Lower thermal and discomfort thresholds may predispose multiple sclerosis (MS) patients to chronic pain, but a possible effect of fibromyalgia (FM) comorbidity has never been investigated. Aims were to investigate the thermal and discomfort thresholds in the evaluation of pain intensity between MS patients with FM (PFM+) and MS patients with pain not associated to FM (PFM-).
Methods: One hundred thirty three MS patients were investigated for chronic pain.
Article Synopsis
- A study looked at how common chronic pain and fibromyalgia (FM) is in people with multiple sclerosis (MS) and how it affects their lives.
- Out of 133 MS patients, 66.2% had chronic pain, and 17.3% of those were diagnosed with FM, which is higher than in regular people.
- Patients with FM had more severe depression and poorer quality of life compared to those without pain or FM, showing that chronic pain can seriously affect health and happiness.
Background: Epidemiological and radiological studies have previously been performed to identify the possible causes of hemiplegic shoulder pain (HSP). Many different etiologies have been postulated, though no clear correlations have emerged, and a multifactorial pathogenesis of HSP has been proposed. Recently, two MRI-based studies have described different shoulder findings as possible causes of pain in chronic stroke survivors.
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