著者

Megumi Takato Tomoki Nanto Masaru Kanamori Yuta Nakao Kohei Horikawa Kazuki Eimoto Kaho Toyota Kohei Marumoto Satoshi Kaku Yuki Uchiyama Kazuhisa Domen

出版者

The Japanese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine

雑誌

Progress in Rehabilitation Medicine (ISSN:24321354)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.7, pp.20220060, 2022 (Released:2022-11-23)

参考文献数

24

被引用文献数

1

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Background: Constraint-induced aphasia therapy (CIAT) has been reported as a short-term, intensive language training program for improving language function in patients with chronic aphasia. We report the recovery of language function in a patient with chronic aphasia who was evaluated in the baseline assessment as having reached a plateau.Case: The patient with subcortical aphasia was a 62-year-old, right-handed man. At 192 days after left putamen hemorrhage, he visited our hospital to begin CIAT. The patient’s language and speech abilities were evaluated 1 month before and immediately before the start of CIAT. To evaluate the training effect, language function was assessed immediately after, 1 month after, 3 months after, and 6 months after the end of CIAT. The Western Aphasia Battery (WAB), the single-word-naming task in the Test of Lexical Processing in Aphasia (TLPA), and the Verbal Activity Log (VAL) were used to assess his language function and the amount of spoken language. From 1 month before CIAT to 6 months after CIAT, the WAB Aphasia Quotient increased by 6.1 points. Compared with before therapy, the errors of apraxia of speech in the TLPA disappeared from immediately after to 6 months after CIAT. Although the VAL score at 3 months after CIAT was higher than that before the start of CIAT, the score decreased after 6 months because of reduced opportunities for communication with friends.Discussion: CIAT improved the word-naming ability and amount of spontaneous, real-world spoken language in a patient with chronic aphasia.

著者

Midori Mochizuki Yuki Uchiyama Kazuhisa Domen Tetsuo Koyama

出版者

The Japanese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine

雑誌

Progress in Rehabilitation Medicine (ISSN:24321354)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.8, pp.20230041, 2023 (Released:2023-11-22)

参考文献数

34

被引用文献数

1

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Background: Aphasia is a common disorder among stroke patients. Assessment of aphasia is essential for scheduling appropriate rehabilitative treatment. Although this is conventionally accomplished using neuropsychological test batteries, these tests are not always accessible because of attention and/or consciousness disturbances during acute care. To overcome this issue, we have introduced a newly developed automated tractography known as XTRACT.Cases: Diffusion-tensor images were acquired from three patients on days 10–14. Brain images were processed by XTRACT, which automatically extracts neural tracts using standardized protocols. Fractional anisotropy (FA) values were then bilaterally evaluated in the following neural tracts associated with aphasia: arcuate fasciculus, inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus, middle longitudinal fasciculus, inferior longitudinal fasciculus, and uncinate fasciculus. Case 1 had word-finding difficulty on admission. FA values in the lesioned left hemisphere were not decreased in all tracts and this patient fully recovered during acute care. Case 2 had reduced spontaneous speech and a low FA value in the left arcuate fasciculus. Rehabilitative treatment was scheduled to improve the verbal output of sentences and word recall. Case 3 could not complete the conventional aphasia test battery because of attention disturbance. He had low FA values in all tracts in the left hemisphere. Rehabilitative treatment was designed to focus on both speaking and auditory comprehension.Discussion: Automated tractography enables quantitative assessment of the neural damage associated with aphasia, even in patients with attention and/or consciousness disturbances. This modality can aid in the assessment of aphasia and allows the planning of appropriate rehabilitative treatment.

著者

Koichiro Sota Yuki Uchiyama Katsuji Kaida Tatsushi Wakasugi Daiki Takemura Naoki Sasanuma Kazuhiro Ikegame Kazuhisa Domen

出版者

The Japanese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine

雑誌

Progress in Rehabilitation Medicine (ISSN:24321354)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.8, pp.20230003, 2023 (Released:2023-02-08)

参考文献数

47

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Objectives: This study compared the balance function in patients after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) with their balance function after subsequent training sessions with a Balance Exercise Assist Robot (BEAR).Methods: In this prospective observational study, inpatients who underwent allo-HSCT from human leukocyte antigen-mismatched relatives were enrolled from December 2015 to October 2017. Patients were allowed to leave their clean room after allo-HSCT and underwent balance exercise training using the BEAR. Sessions (20–40 min) were performed 5 days per week and consisted of three games that were performed four times each. A total of 15 sessions were performed by each patient. Patient balance function was assessed before BEAR therapy according to the mini-balance evaluation systems test (mini-BESTest), and patients were divided into two groups (Low and High) based on a 70% cut-off value for the total mini-BESTest score. Patient balance was also assessed after BEAR therapy.Results: Fourteen patients providing written informed consent fulfilled the protocol: six patients in the Low group, and eight patients in the High group. In the Low group, there was a statistically significant difference between pre- and post-evaluations in postural response, which a sub-item of the mini-BESTest. In the High group, there was no significant difference between pre- and post-evaluations in the mini-BESTest.Conclusions: BEAR sessions improve balance function in patients undergoing allo-HSCT.

著者

Naoki Sasanuma Keiko Takahashi Ai Yanagida Yohei Miyagi Seiya Yamakawa Tetsu Seo Yuki Uchiyama Norihiko Kodama Kazuhisa Domen

出版者

The Japanese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine

雑誌

Progress in Rehabilitation Medicine (ISSN:24321354)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.8, pp.20230032, 2023 (Released:2023-09-26)

参考文献数

30

被引用文献数

1

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Objectives: Coronavirus infection 2019 (COVID-19) is an indication for rehabilitation medicine, especially in severe cases. However, there has been no system analysis of safe and continuous provision of medical rehabilitation for COVID-19 patients. The aim of this study was to confirm the effectiveness of rehabilitation for severe COVID-19 and to analyze the optimization of the medical rehabilitation system using the Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM).Methods: The subject of the analysis was the medical rehabilitation system itself, which had been implemented by the Rehabilitation Center of our hospital in response to the increased number of COVID-19 patients. In the FRAM analysis, Functions were identified, and their relationships were examined. Functions were established using a hierarchical cross-check by the authors. Patient outcomes resulting from optimization of the rehabilitation system were length of hospital stay, patient independence in daily living, and rehabilitation-related medical costs, and these were statistically validated.Results: In repeated optimizations of the rehabilitation system, the main issues were “handling of infected patients and isolation of usual clinical practice,” “staff rotation,” and “remote consultation”. The modification of the medical rehabilitation system was associated with shorter hospital stays, shorter periods of time without prescription, faster improvement in independence of daily living, and lower rehabilitation-related medical costs.Conclusions: Optimization at each stage of medical rehabilitation resulted in positive effects on patient outcomes. FRAM is useful for identifying and the optimization of key functions.