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Scandalis TA, Bosak A, Berliner JC, Helman LL, Wells MR: Resistance training and gait function in patients with Parkinson’s disease.Am J Phys Med Rehabil2001;80:38–43.ObjectiveTo determine whether patients with Parkinson’s disease who are enrolled in a resistance training program can gain strength similar to that of normal control subjects and whether these gains in strength would improve their gait function.DesignSubjects included 14 patients with mild-to-moderate Parkinson’s disease of either gender and six normal control subjects of similar age. The training consisted of an 8-wk course of resistance training twice per week, focused primarily on the lower limbs. The primary outcome measures consisted of exercise performance monitoring and quantitative gait analysis before and after the training course.ResultsBoth the patients with Parkinson’s disease and normal control subjects significantly increased their performance with resistance training. Subjects with Parkinson’s disease had gains in strength similar to those of normal elderly adults. Patients with Parkinson’s disease also had significant gains in stride length, walking velocity, and postural angles compared with pretreatment values.ConclusionsPatients with mild-to-moderate Parkinson’s disease can obtain increases in performance or strength similar to that of normal adults of the same age in a resistance training program. Resistance training can produce functional improvements in gait and may, therefore, be useful as part of a physical rehabilitation and/or health maintenance program for patients with Parkinson’s disease.

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年代:2001

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ISSN:0894-9115    

出版商:OVID    

年代:2001

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Kevorkian CG, Rintala DH, Hart KA: Evaluation and promotion of the clinician-educator: the faculty viewpoint.Am J Phys Med Rehabil2001;80:47–55.Changes in healthcare management and reimbursement have contributed to alterations in the traditional culture of academic medical centers and the roles and responsibilities of their physician faculty, including clinician-educators. Questions concerning the appropriate evaluation methodology and criteria for promotion of such clinical faculty have been raised. In our survey of a large university-based physical medicine and rehabilitation department, only minimal differences were related to age, gender, and academic rank, and these are discussed.

ISSN:0894-9115    

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年代:2001

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ISSN:0894-9115    

出版商:OVID    

年代:2001

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ISSN:0894-9115    

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We describe a patient with ankylosing spondylitis who had severe pain in the thoracic spine area owing to a destructive arthropathy of a costovertebral joint. A computed tomographic scan revealed severe osteolysis of the head of the right eleventh rib, with hypertrophic sclerotic arthropathy of the joint as the source of the patient’s pain. Costovertebral arthropathy should be considered in ankylosing spondylitis patients with severe thoracic pain.

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Kelley GA, Kelley KS, Tran ZV: Resistance training and bone mineral density in women: a meta-analysis of controlled trials.Am J Phys Med Rehabil2001;80:65–77.The purpose of this study was to use meta-analysis to examine the effects of resistance training on bone mineral density at the femur, lumbar spine, and radius in pre- and postmenopausal women. Resistance training had a positive effect on bone mineral density at the lumbar spine of all women and at the femur and radius sites for postmenopausal women. It was concluded that resistance training has a positive effect on bone mineral density in women.

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Melvin JL: Outcomes research in rehabilitation: scope and challenges.Am J Phys Med Rehabil2001;80:78–82.

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