This study on patients who had strokes investigates the relevance of a patient's age, sex, and the side of any symptoms in association with prestroke status, initial signs, initial disability, and recovery during the first six months. Disability was assessed using the Barthel activities of daily...
Stroke If your muscles get weak suddenly, it might be a stroke. Most of the time, muscle weakness related to a stroke will affect one side of your body and not the other. You may also notice: Dizziness Blurred vision Trouble walking or talking Loss of balance and/or coordination Confusion...
In some cases, the muscle weakness may happen suddenly on a side of the body as a stroke. If it comes along with abdominal pain, it may be a sign of botulism. Seek a medical care if you have a sudden change in confusion, vision, loss of consciousness, abdominal pain, paralysis, sever...
Patients were excluded if they were pregnant, aged below 18 years, had a lower-limb amputation, had limb weakness prior to ICU admission, had a primary neuromuscular pathology (such as stroke, lower-limb immobilization from a plaster, neurodegenerative diseases, peripheral neuropathy or muscle ...
Physical examination: T 36.7℃, R 19/min, BP 90/51mmHg (1mmHg=0.133kPa), SaO 2 99%; The patient was thin and had a thoracic kyphosis malformation. No edema, ulcer or rash was found on her skin. She was awake, alert, and able to respond to commands. The left eye was blind and...
Post stroke, we found active posture tasking to be dominated by: 1) muscle weakness and 2) lack of reflex adaptation. This adds to existing doubts on reflex blocking therapy as the sole paradigm to improve active task performance and draws attention to muscle strength and power recovery and th...
In older populations, pre-ICU disability and hearing and visual impairment substantially increase the risk of death and more severe disability following critical illness [6, 7]. Comorbid conditions have a great impact on acute mortality, long-term residual disability, and response to rehabilitation [...
Interleukin-6 receptor (IL-6R); also called IL-6 receptor alpha (IL-6RA): As used herein, “interleukin-6 receptor” (“IL-6R”; also “IL-6 receptor alpha” or “IL-6RA”) encompasses not only the following 468 amino acid sequence available as Swiss-Prot Protein Accession No. P0888...
(enrolled from 2007 to 2011). Based on the dietary consumption information obtained from the brief self-administered diet history questionnaire, we assessed adherence to the Japanese (12-component revised Japanese diet index (rJDI12)) and Mediterranean (alternate Mediterranean diet (aMed) score) ...
Even though AASs are well-known for their effects on increasing muscle mass and physical function, they remain outside the first-line management of sarcopenia. The explanation for the limitation of wider use is mainly their potential adverse effects, such as an increase in blood pressure, ...