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{ Monthly Archives } December 2006

Esquenazi Garners 2006 Distinguished Clinician Award

The American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation bestows its Distinguished Clinician award yearly on a select few physiatrists who demonstrate outstanding musculoskeletal patient care, exceptional teaching skills and significant contributions to the specialty. Alberto Esquenazi, MD, Chairman, PM&R, MossRehab, and Albert Einstein Medical Center, received the honor this November. He is the most recently [...]

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The pharmacological management of spasticity.

by Saulino M, Jacobs BW.
Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
The spectrum of antispasticity therapies is fairly broad. Familiarity with the various therapies will enable a nurse involved in the care of neurological patients to deliver the effective treatment and minimize adverse events. Referral to specialty care centers may be appropriate [...]

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Improvements in healthcare and cost benefits associated with botulinum toxin treatment of spasticity and muscle overactivity.

by Alberto Esquenazi, MD.Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Spasticity is a widespread, disabling form of muscle overactivity affecting patients with central nervous system damage resulting in upper motor neurone syndrome. There is a range of effective therapies for the treatment of spasticity (e.g. physical, anaesthetic, chemodenervation and neurolytic injections, systemic [...]

Dec 1, 2006 Diseases & Disorders
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Deficits in movement planning and intrinsic coordinate control in ideomotor apraxia.

by Steven A. Jax, PhD, Laurel J. Buxbaum, PsyD, Adrienne D. Moll.
Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Two central issues in the field of motor control are the coordinate frame in which movements are controlled and the distinction between movement planning and online correction. In this study we used these issues [...]

Dec 1, 2006 Diseases & Disorders
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Deficits in movement planning and intrinsic coordinate control in ideomotor apraxia

by Steven A. Jax, PhD; Laurel J. Buxbaum, PsyD; Adrienne D. Moll
Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Philadelphia, PA
Two central issues in the field of motor control are the coordinate frame in which movements are controlled and the distinction between movement planning and online correction. In this study we used these issues to frame several hypotheses [...]

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