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Relevant to Rehabilitation
Supervised exercise therapy versus home-based exercise therapy versus walking advice for intermittent claudication
What is intermittent claudication?
Intermittent claudication is a cramping leg pain that occurs during walking and is relieved by a short period of rest. It is caused by inadequate blood flow to the muscles of the leg due to atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries). Read More..
Interventions for improving modifiable risk factor control
in the secondary prevention of stroke
Is it possible to prevent a second stroke?
Stroke is a rapidly developing neurological deficit of vascular origin that lasts 24 hours and can lead to a neurological dysfunction caused by a focal brain lesion. When the deficit lasts less than 24 hours it is called “transient ischemic attack”. Read More..
Non-invasive brain stimulation techniques for chronic pain
New Publication. The struggle for evidence in physical and rehabilitation medicine: publication rate of randomized controlled trials and systematic reviews is growing more than in other therapeutic fields. American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
The Congress of the Italian Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (SIMFER)was held in September in Ancona, Italy.
Our Director, Prof. Stefano Negrini, and Coordinator, Dr. Carlotte Kiekens, gave an update on Cochrane Rehabilitation activities to our Italian colleagues.
A Memorandum of Understanding was signed with SIMFER President, Prof. Piero Fiore, to increase support for dissemination of Cochrane evidence of Rehabilitation in Italian. Read More..
