Publications by authors named "Patricia Augusto"
Objectives: to analyze the role of nursing in the establishment of an HIV/AIDS Testing and Counseling Center in a Brazilian municipality.
Methods: a historical study utilizing primary sources, including documents and oral accounts, involving a total of ten participants. The study encompasses the years 1997 and 1998.
Article Synopsis
- Spinal cord injury (SCI) severely affects sensory-motor and autonomic functions, but a new rehabilitation technique shows promise in improving patient outcomes.
- A 28-month, multi-step protocol using non-invasive brain-machine interfaces and assisted locomotion led to significant sensory and motor recovery in seven chronic SCI patients, moving several from complete to partial impairment classifications.
- Patients reported enhanced quality of life, though one patient who stopped training after 12 months showed no continued improvement, emphasizing the importance of ongoing therapy.
Brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) provide a new assistive strategy aimed at restoring mobility in severely paralyzed patients. Yet, no study in animals or in human subjects has indicated that long-term BMI training could induce any type of clinical recovery. Eight chronic (3-13 years) spinal cord injury (SCI) paraplegics were subjected to long-term training (12 months) with a multi-stage BMI-based gait neurorehabilitation paradigm aimed at restoring locomotion.
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