Writing and drawing tilts after right hemisphere stroke are signs of a wrong verticality representation.

Background: Many signs of spatial dysgraphia and drawing errors after right hemispheric stroke (RHS) have been attributed to spatial neglect or impaired sensory feedback. Counterclockwise (contralesional) tilts of graphomotor productions remained to be explained.

Objective: To test whether graphomotor tilts stem from a tilted representation of verticality transposed to the top/bottom axis of the sheet of paper, using data from the DOBRAS cohort.

Multifactorial interplay on language recovery following left-hemispheric stroke: A retrospective study.

Understanding the relative contribution of various factors influencing initial severity of aphasia and recovery after a stroke is essential for optimising neurorehabilitation programmes. We investigated how various significant sociodemographic, cognitive, clinical, stroke-related and rehabilitation-related factors modulate aphasia severity and language recovery following left-hemispheric stroke. Employing an innovative method, we conducted a retrospective analysis of 96 stroke participants to explore the combined impact of these factors.

Neck muscle vibration and prism adaptation fail to improve balance disturbances after stroke: A multicentre randomised controlled study.

Background: Pilot studies suggest potential effects of neck muscle vibration (NMV) and prism adaptation (PA) on postural balance disturbances related to spatial cognition.

Objectives: To evaluate the effect of 10 sessions of NMV and/or PA on ML deviation. We used the mediolateral centre of pressure position (ML deviation) as a biomarker for spatial cognition perturbation, hypothesising that PA and NMV would improve ML deviation, with a potential synergistic impact when used together.

Bone mineral density in adults with arthrogryposis multiplex congenita: a retrospective cohort analysis.

The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of low femoral and lumbar spine bone mineral density (BMD) in adults with arthrogryposis multiplex congenita (AMC). We performed a retrospective cohort analysis of adults with AMC who were enrolled in the French Reference Center for AMC and in the Pediatric and Adult Registry for Arthrogryposis (PARART, NCT05673265). Patients who had undergone dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) and/or vitamin D testing were included in the analysis.

Improving orientation with respect to gravity enhances balance and gait recovery after stroke: DOBRAS cohort.

Background: Lateropulsion is a deficit in body orientation with respect to gravity, frequent after stroke. Although it is a primary factor affecting mobility, the impact of its attenuation on balance and gait recovery has never been investigated. Moreover, most studies on the lateropulsion time-course focus on severe forms suspected to have a poor recovery, which is not proven.

Discriminative value of different combinations of tests to detect unilateral neglect in patients with right hemisphere damage.

Background And Purpose: This study was undertaken to assess the most sensitive combination of tests to detect peripersonal unilateral neglect (UN) after stroke.

Methods: The present study is a secondary analysis of a previously reported multicentric study of 203 individuals with right hemisphere damage (RHD), mainly subacute stroke, 11 weeks postonset on average, and 307 healthy controls. A battery of seven tests, providing 19 age- and education-adjusted z-scores, were given: the bells test, line bisection, figure copying, clock drawing, overlapping figures test, and reading and writing.

Clinimetric properties of relevant criteria for assessing writing and drawing orientation after right hemisphere stroke.

Background: Writing and drawing orientation is rarely assessed in clinical routine, although it might have a potential value in detecting impaired verticality perception after right hemispheric stroke (RHS). Assessment tools and criteria must be conceived and validated. We therefore explored the clinimetric properties of a set of quantitative writing and drawing orientation criteria, their ranges of normality, and their tilt prevalence in RHS individuals.

Latent disconnectome prediction of long-term cognitive-behavioural symptoms in stroke.

Stroke significantly impacts the quality of life. However, the long-term cognitive evolution in stroke is poorly predictable at the individual level. There is an urgent need to better predict long-term symptoms based on acute clinical neuroimaging data.

Spatial neglect encompasses impaired verticality representation after right hemisphere stroke.

Spatial neglect after right hemisphere stroke (RHS) was recently found to encompass lateropulsion, a deficit in body orientation with respect to gravity caused by altered brain processing of graviception. By analogy, we hypothesized that spatial neglect after RHS might encompass an altered representation of verticality. We also assumed a strong relation between body neglect and impaired postural vertical, both referring to the body.

Global statements to produce and implement evidence in the post-COVID-era provide a path forward for rehabilitation - A joint initiative of Cochrane Rehabilitation and the leading journals in the field.

This article is a simultaneous joint publication in Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, Annals of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Developmental Neurorehabilitation, European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, Musculoskeletal Science & Practice and Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair. The articles are identical except for stylistic changes in keeping with each journal's style. Either version may be used in citing this article.

Determining an optimal posturography dataset to identify standing behaviors in the post-stroke subacute phase. Cross-sectional study.

Background: A key issue for posturography is the expression of robust results, in a simplified way. Most studies of individuals post-stroke concern the chronic phase, with small sample sizes.

Objectives: By reducing the number of posturographic indices, we aimed to determine an optimal dataset and understand typical postural behaviors in the subacute post-stroke phase.