In rehabilitation medicine, attention must be paid to the medication. Among them, antithrombotic drugs are used for the initial treatment and secondary prevention of stroke, so as a basic knowledge, the pharmacological actions, characteristics, indications, and precautions for the use of antithrombotic drugs should be known. Antithrombotic agents are divided into antiplatelet agents and anticoagulants, and the appropriate antithrombotic agent is selected according to the main disease or condition.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To explore efficacy of the "Rey-Osterrieth complex figure (ROCF) tracing task" as a new test to detect unilateral spatial neglect (USN).
Methods: Subjects were 40 healthy control (HC) and 20 right brain-damaged patients with (USN + , n = 10) or without USN (USN - , n = 10). After the ROCF copying task, the tracing task was performed under conditions that did not leave any tracing lines on the sample figure.
Cilostazol is a drug that has both antiplatelet and vasodilatory effects. To examine the effects of cilostazol on cerebral blood flow and rehabilitation following stroke, cilostazol was administered to two patients with chronic atherothrombotic cerebral infarction. In both patients, cilostazol administration effectively increased cerebral blood flow and promoted rehabilitation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Carnitine is a vital human nutrient. Although there are many reports on carnitine deficiency, most studies have been conducted on children, patients with severe mental and physical disabilities, epileptic patients, patients with liver cirrhosis, and dialysis patients. To the best of our knowledge, there are no reports on carnitine administration for disorders of consciousness after stroke.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: This study examined the immediate effects of neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) on the dynamics of oropharyngeal structure and laryngeal vestibular closure (LVC) in healthy subjects.
Methods: Ten healthy male volunteers participated in this controlled, before-and-after, videofluoroscopic swallowing pilot study. The study was conducted in four phases (each performed twice): (1) saliva swallow (SS) before evaluation (BEFORE), (2) NMES while at rest with no SS (NMES AT REST), (3) SS during NMES (DURING NMES), and (4) SS to examine the aftereffects of NMES (AFTER).
Aim: Repetitive facilitative exercise (RFE) is a developed approach to the rehabilitation of hemiplegia. RFE can be integrated with neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES), direct application of vibratory stimulation (DAVS) and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS). The aims of the present study were to retrospectively compare the effects of RFE and NMES, DAVS with those of RFE and rTMS, and to determine the maximal effect of the combination of RFE with NMES, DAVS, rTMS and pharmacological treatments in stroke patients.
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