The prevalence of developmental delay (DD) in children worldwide is still on the rise, and its causes are complex and diverse, causing varying degrees of impact on the development of the sensory nervous system in the brain of children. Sensory integration training is a treatment method that applies sensory stimulation and comprehensive activities. It is currently widely used in children with DD. This therapy can effectively improve the development and integration of the sensory system in children with DD. It also enhances the individual’s ability to adapt to external stimuli, promoting their development in language, motor, and cognitive functions. This article explores the relevant mechanisms of sensory integration training and DD, as well as the current status and effects of its application in DD children, in order to promote the development and progress of related research fields.
Objective To explore whether the effect of cloud rehabilitation system on motor dysfunction and activities of daily living (ADL) of stroke patients is not inferior to hemiplegia manual treatment. Methods This study adopted a multicenter randomized controlled trial design. A total of 118 stroke patients were enrolled from 5 hospitals in China between April 2018 and April 2019, and they were randomly divided into a trial group and a control group, with 59 patients in each group. The trial group adopted hemiplegia manual treatment (≥30 min per time, once a day) and cloud rehabilitation training (30 min per time, once a day), and the control group adopted hemiplegia manual treatment alone (≥30 min per time, twice a day). All patients received continuous treatment for 2 weeks, and followed up for 2 weeks after that. The Brunnstrom stage (BRS), IK exercise stage, and Modified Barthel Index (MBI) were used to evaluate the motor function and ADL before and 4 weeks after treatment. Results There was no significant difference in gender, age, course, hemiplegia side, source (inpatient/outpatient) or hospital grade between the two groups (P>0.05), which were comparable. Compared with those before treatment, there were significant improvements in the BRS (upper and lower extremities), IK exercise stages (upper and lower extremities), and MBI scores in both groups 4 weeks after treatment (P<0.05). The four-week improvements in motor function indicators (BRS and IK) of the trial group were not inferior to those of the control group (P<0.05), and there was no significant difference in MBI score between the two groups 4 weeks after treatment (F=1.498, P>0.05). Conclusion The cloud rehabilitation system is not inferior to hemiplegia manual treatment in improving the limb motor function or ADL of patients .
Post-stroke cognitive dysfunction is a common complication of stroke, and active rehabilitation therapy can effectively promote the recovery of patients. As a new treatment method, telecognitive rehabilitation is used in rehabilitation treatment of cognitive disorders. Its main technologies include computer-assisted cognitive rehabilitation, virtual reality technology, and artificial intelligence technology. It can use the Internet platform to provide homogeneous treatment, make patients more convenient for cognitive rehabilitation treatment, help to ensure the continuity of rehabilitation treatment, and save medical costs. This article describes the definition of cognitive telerehabilitation, the development and application of cognitive telerehabilitation technology, and summarizes the existing problems. The purpose is to provide a reference for the clinical application of cognitive telerehabilitation in China and future research directions.
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the results of limb function and the methods of bone and soft tissue reconstruction of patients treated with allografting. METHODS: From May 1992 to January 1999, 90 patients suffered from bone malignant tumor were treated with allografting in different methods of internal fixations. The average follow-up was 37.5 months. The limb postoperative function, complications related to different surgical methods were compared according to Enneking evaluation system. RESULTS: Skin necrosis, infection, non-union, fracture of allograft were the main complications which affect patients’ limb postoperative functions. Of the 90 fresh-frozen allografting procedures, the final results of operation showed that hip joints and knee joints were better than the shoulder joints. More than 80% of the patients treated with interlocked intramedullary nail and allograft-prosthesis combination led to an over-all result that was excellent and good. Interlocked intermedullary nail was of recommended method of internal fixation. Early exercises of operative limbs could promote function recovery. CONCLUSION: Using of interlocked intramedullary nail and allograft-prosthesis combination are of recommended operation method and can be applied with better results, and early exercises of operative limbs will lead to better functions.
Brain–computer interface (BCI) technology enable humans to interact with external devices by decoding their brain signals. Despite it has made some significant breakthroughs in recent years, there are still many obstacles in its applications and extensions. The current used BCI control signals are generally derived from the brain areas involved in primary sensory- or motor-related processing. However, these signals only reflect a limited range of limb movement intention. Therefore, additional sources of brain signals for controlling BCI systems need to be explored. Brain signals derived from the cognitive brain areas are more intuitive and effective. These signals can be used for expand the brain signal sources as a new approach. This paper reviewed the research status of cognitive BCI based on the single brain area and multiple hybrid brain areas, and summarized its applications in the rehabilitation medicine. It’s believed that cognitive BCI technologies would become a possible breakthrough for future BCI rehabilitation applications.
Objective To review the current state of lung rehabilitation in China and explore the effect of lung rehabilitation on chronic respiratory diseases. Methods Database of CNKI ( 1979-2009) , VIP Chinese Periodical Database ( 1989-2009 ) , and Wanfang Data ( 1982-2009) resources were searched. Studies of lung rehabilitation were collected, and randomized and controlled trials were included. Data were extracted on study population, interfering and evaluating methods. The meta-analyses were performed by using RevMan 4. 2 software. The heterogeneity was analyzed by X2 and P value. Results A total of 3 clinical trials met the inclusion criteria. The study population were all severe and very severe chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases ( COPD) patients. Lung rehabilitation could improve daily activity( WMD:1. 29, 95% CI: 1. 05-1. 54) and dyspnea level ( SMD: - 1. 27, 95% CI: - 1. 67 to - 0. 86) of COPD patients. Conclusion The general level of studies on lung rehabilitation is not satisfied. Meta-analysis comfirmes that lung rehabilitation is beneficial in improving daily activity and dyspnea level of COPD patients.
Since the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), there have been numerous studies confirming that physiotherapy is an essential part of the comprehensive treatment during hospitalization and can facilitate recovery in COVID-19 patients. However, physiotherapy protocols for COVID-19 patients in intensive care units are still lacking. This article reviews the literature and incorporates practical experience around recommendations for the safe protection during physiotherapy, recommendations for evaluation criteria and intervention of physiotherapy, and future work for COVID-19 patients, so as to provide a standardized recommendation for physiotherapists working in intensive care units.
To better evaluate neuromuscular function of patients with stroke related motor dysfunction, we proposed an effective corticomuscular coherence analysis and coherent significant judgment method. Firstly, the related functional frequency bands in the electroencephalogram (EEG) were extracted via wavelet decomposition. Secondly, coherence were analysed between surface electromyography (sEMG) and sub-bands extracted from EEG. Further more, a coherent significant indicator was defined to quantitatively describe the similarity in certain frequency domain and phase lock activity between EEG and sEMG. Through the analysis of corticomuscular coherence during knee flexion-extension of stroke patients and healthy controls, we found that the stroke patients exhibited significantly lower gamma-band corticomuscular coherence in performing the task with their affected leg, and there was no statistically significant difference between their unaffected lag and the healthy controls, but with the rehabilitation training, the bilateral difference of corticomuscular coherence in patients decreased gradually.
ObjectiveTo systematically analyse the application of pulmonary rehabilitation in patients with stroke-associated pneumonia (SAP), in order to provide reference for clinical healthcare professionals to carry out relevant interventions. Methods PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, Cochrane Library, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, Wanfang, Chongqing VIP, and SinoMed were systematically searched, with a search period from database establishment until December 31, 2023. The scoping review method was used to analyze the included studies. Results A total of 16 studies were included, mainly randomized controlled trials and quasi-experimental studies. The research mainly focuses on China and South Korea. The sample size was generally 40-80 cases. The duration of intervention is mostly 2-4 weeks. Six different lung rehabilitation interventions were involved. The main outcome measures included lung function, incidence of SAP, mortality rate, cognitive function, severity of stroke, length of intensive care unit stay, duration of antibiotic use, and daily living activity. Most studies had shown that lung rehabilitation has a significant impact on SAP patients.Conclusions The effectiveness of pulmonary rehabilitation in SAP patients has been preliminarily validated. Future research needs to cover a wider range of regions and larger samples, and conduct long-term tracking studies and multidimensional evaluations to enhance the universality and reliability of the results.
Tinnitus is a common clinical symptom and its occurrence rate is high. It seriously affects life quality of the patients. Scientific researches show that listening some similar and none-repetitive music can relieve tinnitus to some extent. The overall music accorded with self-similarity character by the direct mapping method based on chaos. However, there were often the same tones continuous repeating a few times and tone mutations. To solve the problem, this paper proposes a new method for tinnitus rehabilitation sound synthesis based on pentatonic scale, chaos and musical instrument digital interface (MIDI). Experimental results showed that the tinnitus rehabilitation sounds were not only self-similar and incompletely reduplicate, but also no sudden changes. Thus, it has a referential significance for tinnitus treatment.
