Evaluation of somatosensory bedside testing and neurodynamics of the trigeminal nerve in craniofacial pain: A matched case-control study.

Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate whether trigeminal somatosensory function and mechanosensitivity differ between groups with craniofacial neuropathic pain (CNP), non-neuropathic craniofacial pain (NNP), and healthy controls (HC).

Methods: Thirty-three participants were categorized into these groups, matched for age and sex. The study evaluated pain intensity, the Leeds Assessment of Neuropathic Symptoms and Signs (LANSS), and various trigeminal somatosensory tests, including vibration, pressure pain, thermal detection, cold pain, and neurodynamic tests of the trigeminal nerve.

Less Pain, but no changes in maximal inclination angles during an overhead reach task following local anesthetic in patients with ongoing shoulder pain.

This multicenter observational study aimed to assess how pain reduction, induced by local anesthesia, affects the relative angular contributions of the shoulder girdle and trunk to the maximal angular performance during a semi-constrained overhead reach task in patients with ongoing shoulder pain. Twenty-nine individuals (age 59.0 SD 12.

Meaningful contributions of rehabilitation for people with persistent pain; a reflexive thematic analysis.

Purpose: This study aims to explore the meaningful contributions of rehabilitation for participants living with persistent pain.

Materials And Methods: A phenomenological methodology was used. Thirteen purposefully selected participants, who self-identified as substantially improved from persistent pain due to rehabilitation, were interviewed in-depth.

"It is great what we have learned from each other!" - Bedside teaching in interprofessional small groups using the example of Parkinson's disease.

Background: While patient care often involves interprofessional collaboration, interprofessional teaching formats with participants from medical and physiotherapy fields are still rare. Furthermore, interprofessional education often takes place as separate courses and is not integrated into the clinical curriculum. Therefore, the goal of this project was to develop and implement interprofessional content into bedside teaching.

Does combined individualized orofacial manual therapy, pain neuroscience education, and brain training change orofacial pain, chronic face dysfunction, (facial) body perception and pain? An observational mixed methods case series study.

Background: Orofacial pain is a complex disabling condition. Multimodal physical therapy intervention may be helpful, yet studies of such approaches are not available and are the basis of this study.

Objective: To identify whether combined orofacial manual therapy, pain neuroscience education, graded motor imagery, and face emotional expression training has an impact on orofacial pain and associated features.

Knowledge and attitudes toward musculoskeletal pain neuroscience of manual therapy postgraduate students in the Netherlands.

Background: Health care practitioners' knowledge and attitudes influence patients' beliefs and health outcomes in musculoskeletal (MSK) pain. It is unclear to what extent physiotherapists undertaking a postgraduate master in manual therapy (MT students) possess the knowledge and attitudes toward pain neuroscience to be able to apply the biopsychosocial model in patients with MSK pain.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge and attitudes toward pain neuroscience in MT students.

Assessing future health care practitioners' knowledge and attitudes of musculoskeletal pain; development and measurement properties of a new questionnaire.

Background: Healthcare practitioner beliefs influence patients' beliefs and health outcomes in musculoskeletal (MSK) pain. A validated questionnaire based on modern pain neuroscience assessing Knowledge and Attitudes of Pain (KNAP) was unavailable.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to develop and test measurement properties of KNAP.

Advantages of virtual reality in the rehabilitation of balance and gait: Systematic review.

Background: Virtual reality (VR) has emerged as a therapeutic tool facilitating motor learning for balance and gait rehabilitation. The evidence, however, has not yet resulted in standardized guidelines. The aim of this study was to systematically review the application of VR-based rehabilitation of balance and gait in 6 neurologic cohorts, describing methodologic quality, intervention programs, and reported efficacy.

The Efficacy of Movement Representation Techniques for Treatment of Limb Pain--A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Unlabelled: Relatively new evidence suggests that movement representation techniques (ie, therapies that use the observation and/or imagination of normal pain-free movements, such as mirror therapy, motor imagery, or movement and/or action observation) might be effective in reduction of some types of limb pain. To summarize the evidence regarding the efficacy of those techniques, a systematic review with meta-analysis was performed. We searched Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, AMED, PsychINFO, Physiotherapy Evidence Database, and OT-seeker up to August 2014 and hand-searched further relevant resources for randomized controlled trials that studied the efficacy of movement representation techniques in reduction of limb pain.

Determinants of Concurrent Motor and Language Recovery during Intensive Therapy in Chronic Stroke Patients: Four Single-Case Studies.

Despite intensive research on mechanisms of recovery of function after stroke, surprisingly little is known about determinants of concurrent recovery of language and motor functions in single patients. The alternative hypotheses are that the two functions might either "fight for resources" or use the same mechanisms in the recovery process. Here, we present follow-up data of four exemplary patients with different base levels of motor and language abilities.

Mirror therapy for patients with severe arm paresis after stroke--a randomized controlled trial.

Objective: To evaluate the effects of individual or group mirror therapy on sensorimotor function, activities of daily living, quality of life and visuospatial neglect in patients with a severe arm paresis after stroke.

Design: Randomized controlled trial.

Setting: Inpatient rehabilitation centre.

Reliability and validity of the functional gait assessment (German version) in subacute stroke patients.

Objective: To investigate validity and reliability of the Functional Gait Assessment (FGA) (German version) as a measure for balance abilities during walking in subacute stroke patients.

Design: Cohort study.

Setting: Inpatient rehabilitation center.