ALLMedicine™ Stroke Center

Dec 3rd, 2021 - Due to language and cultural barriers, people with aphasia from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds are at risk of disadvantage in their access to comprehensive care. They are at higher risk of poorer inpatient outcomes in add...

Dec 3rd, 2021 - Insufficient primary stability of acetabular hip cups is a complication resulting in early cup loosening. Available cup designs vary in terms of wall thickness, potentially affecting implant fixation. This study investigated the influence of diffe...

Dec 3rd, 2021 - Increased cerebral arterial pulsatility is associated with cerebral small vessel disease, recurrent stroke, and dementia despite the best medical treatment. However, no study has identified the rates and determinants of progression of arterial sti...

Dec 3rd, 2021 - Through both backward (Pb) and forward (Pf) wave effects, a lower heart rate (HR) associates with increased central (PPc), beyond brachial pulse pressure (PP). However, the relative contribution to Pf of aortic flow (Q) versus re-reflection of Pb,...

Dec 3rd, 2021 - Recent evidence has shown bilateral transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (Bi-TENS) combined with task-oriented training (TOT) to be superior to unilateral transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (Uni-TENS)+TOT in improving lower limb mo...

Apr 28th, 2021 - Hypertension is a prevalent condition that affects approximately 45% of the adult US population and is the most commonly diagnosed condition at outpatient office visits. Hypertension is a major contributing risk factor for heart failure, myocardia...

Mar 7th, 2021 - Level of ambulation following stroke is a long-term predictor of participation and disability. Decreased lower extremity motor control can impact ambulation and overall mobility. The purpose of this clinical practice guideline (CPG) is to provide ...

Feb 3rd, 2021 - Carotid artery stenosis is atherosclerotic disease that affects extracranial carotid arteries. Asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis refers to stenosis in persons without a history of ischemic stroke, transient ischemic attack, or other neurologic ...

Nov 17th, 2020 - The Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS) atrial fibrillation (AF) guidelines program was developed to aid clinicians in the management of these complex patients, as well as to provide direction to policy makers and health care systems regarding r...

Oct 21st, 2020 - Down syndrome is the most common chromosomal condition, and average life expectancy has increased substantially, from 25 years in 1983 to 60 years in 2020. Despite the unique clinical comorbidities among adults with Down syndrome, there are no cli...

Nov 26th, 2021 - The project is a 6-month prospective Randomized Controlled Trial evaluating the effects of TargEted MAnageMent Intervention (TEAM, N=80) vs. wait-list (WL, N=80) control in African American men who have experienced a stroke or TIA within the past ...

Nov 25th, 2021 - Despite the functional importance, fingertip forces are rarely explicitly addressed with feedback in therapy. This gap in treatment is due to a lack of tools to provide explicit feedback on patients' volitional finger force generation. To address ...

Nov 25th, 2021 - The purpose of the RCT is to investigate the effects of an innovative physiotherapy intervention, called I-CoreDIST when applied in comprehensive rehabilitation after discharge from a stroke unit and throughout the rehabilitation chain.The project...

Nov 25th, 2021 - Portable Neuromodulation Stimulator (PoNS) is non-invasive stimulation device placed on the tongue to stimulate those brain regions understood to be important for maintaining balance. This research study aims to collect evidence that PoNS therapy ...

Nov 25th, 2021 - The prevalence of Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is high in individuals after a stroke. The gold standard treatment for OSA is the use of Positive Airway Pressure, but due to the low adherence to this resource, the multidisciplinary approach for th...

Nov 30th, 2021 - Exercise-induced premature ventricular contractions occurring during recovery were bad news for asymptomatic people. (Journal of the American College of Cardiology) Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) revealed that some COVID-19 long-haulers w...

Nov 24th, 2021 - Post–COVID-19 headache is a common and sometimes persistent problem. It may take the form of new-onset headache, or exacerbations of preexisting headache conditions such as migraine.

Nov 24th, 2021 - Daily aspirin is associated with new onset heart failure independent of other risk factors, according to data derived from a database with follow-up from more than 30,000 patients who did not have HF when they were enrolled. Patrice Wendling/MDedg.

Nov 17th, 2021 - One of the stranger casualties of the COVID pandemic was my inpatient neurology career. Dr.

Nov 17th, 2021 - This transcript has been edited for clarity. Hello. This is Dr JoAnn Manson, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital. I'd like to talk with you about a recent report in Circulation: a meta-analysis of rando...