Reproducibility and responsiveness of heart rate indexes to assess wheeling efficiency in patients with spinal cord injuries.

Study Design: Cross-sectional study.

Objectives: To measure the reproducibility and responsiveness of heart rate indexes in measuring energy expenditure during wheelchair locomotion of adults with spinal cord injury (SCI).

Setting: SARAH Rehabilitation Hospital Network-Brasilia, Brazil.

Effectiveness of prefabricated and customized foot orthoses made from low-cost foam for noncomplicated plantar fasciitis: a randomized controlled trial.

Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness of prefabricated and customized foot orthoses made from low-cost foam (ethylene vinyl acetate [EVA]) in plantar fasciitis.

Design: Double-blinded randomized controlled trial.

Setting: Public rehabilitation referral medical center.

Psychometric attributes of the SCOPA-COG Brazilian version.

Cross-cultural adaptation and independent psychometric assessment of the Scales for Outcomes in Parkinson's disease-Cognition (SCOPA-COG), Brazilian version was performed. Parkinson's disease (PD) patients were evaluated by means of the SCOPA-Motor scale, Hoehn and Yahr staging (HY), Clinical Impression of Severity Index-PD (CISI-PD), Parkinson Psychosis Rating Scale, and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale. Cognition was evaluated using the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire (SPMSQ), and SCOPA-COG.