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PubMed1992

Thalamic hand: a late onset sequela of stroke and its influence on physical function after rehabilitation: two cases report.

Thalamic hemorrhage or infarction is one of the common causes of stroke. People who suffer from this type of cerebrovascular disease may develop thalamic syndrome which includes sensory disturbance, motor deficit and psychological problems. In this report, we introduce two cases of thalamic hemorrhage followed up for more than a half year after stroke. Delayed rigidity and choreodystonic type of involuntary movement over their paretic hand developed gradually. The metacarpophalangeal joints of the affected hand were kept flexed and the proximal and distal interphalangeal joints became extended. Thalamic hand is demonstrated in the appended pictures. Once the patient develops a thalamic hand, activities of daily living will be affected due to poor hand performance despite of high motor recovery stage. Early recognition and proper rehabilitation program for the patients with thalamic hand are emphasized.

Cerebral Hemorrhage↗
PubMed2003

[Criteral for assessing quantitative disability in expert determination of functional physical disorders. Review of the literature].

The assessment of individuals with somatoform disorders seeking payments or compensation is a major challenge for psychiatrists, insurers and the social welfare system. It is difficult to examine these disorders objectively and to quantify the impairment people experience in their work or private life. In order to develop more rational criteria for the assessment of these patients, we first reviewed the relevant literature and extracted the criteria mentioned by the respective authors. We then grouped these criteria in clinically plausible dimensions in order to develop a list of parameters that could help psychiatric experts to analyse the impairment more objectively and to help institutions in evaluating the assessments.

Activities of Daily Living↗
PubMed2003

School-year employment among high school students: effects on academic, social, and physical functioning.

This study describes the effects of different weekly work intensity levels on adolescent functioning in a sample of 3,083 high school students in rural South Texas, where economically disadvantaged and Hispanic youth are heavily represented. Anonymous surveys were conducted in 10th- and 12th-grade students' classrooms in 1995. The following effects were associated with long hours of weekly employment during the school year: (1) decreased performance/engagement in school and satisfaction with amount of leisure time, and (2) increased health risk behaviors and psychological stress. The effects of school-year work on academic factors and health behaviors differed by grade, but not by race/ethnicity, parent education, or race/ethnicity and parent education considered together. It was concluded that parents and professionals should continue to monitor the number of weekly hours that students work during the school year.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1990

[The standard hip--evaluation of physical function and health care utilization following hip fracture].

All 441 cases of hip fracture admitted to Sahlgrenska sjukhuset, Göteborg, during a one-year period were followed in accordance with a form developed by the Swedish Medical Research Council. Osteosynthesis was the method used in over 97 per cent of the cases. There were 336 women, mean age 80.0 (+/- 9.9) years, and 105 men, mean age 77.1 (+/- 11.8). A rehabilitation programme for non-institutionalised patients (68 per cent of the total of 441) reduced the length of stay at the orthopaedic department from 22 days to an average of 15 days in 1986, and the proportion of patients able to return home was increased from 81 per cent in 1982 to 90 per cent in 1987-88. Thus, the use of rehabilitation or nursing home facilities was reduced, and the length of stay there was reduced. The findings of the study also showed the rehabilitation to be time-consuming, and that few hip fracture patients ever regain complete pre-fracture function. Therefore it is suggested that the follow-up should be extended to cover a longer period than four months. Otherwise, the form is well designed, and its use improves the comparability of different studies.

Activities of Daily Living↗
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A study of social health and physical function of government retirees in Delhi.

Education and income-wise retirees were better than an average Indian. However they had still to fulfil certain financial obligations involving heavy expenditures. Family setting continued to play important part in their daily lives. Their perceived level of utility towards society (95.32%) was high and drug habits were not a problem. Functionally majority had productive capacity. As a strategy to keep dependent population at low levels, it was very much possible to utilise their services as not only they were functionally capable but they were also educated and had work experience. The existing family set up should be encouraged and maintained by all possible means and trends seen in developed countries prevented so as to keep our elderly socially, psychologically and emotionally healthy. This will reduce the need for geriatric institutions.

Aged↗
PubMed1987

Impact of cataract surgery with lens implantation on vision and physical function in elderly patients.

We conducted a prospective study of 293 elderly patients undergoing cataract surgery with intraocular lens implantation to determine the impact of the surgery on vision and on subjective and objective measures of patient function. Visual acuity in the surgical eye improved from a mean of 20/100 before surgery to 20/40 four months after surgery; improvement was maintained at one year. Positive changes occurred in some subjective measures of patient function, such as reported activities of daily living and patient report of vision-dependent activities, but these changes were modest. The most marked changes in patient function occurred in objective measures of function. Mental status had improved not quite significantly at four months but significantly at one year. Timed manual performance improved dramatically and significantly at four months and one year. Cataract surgery was associated with improved vision and improved objective function in most patients by four months after surgery, and these improvements were maintained at one year.

Activities of Daily Living↗