A 35-year-old female patient with spasmodic dysphonia underwent massage and vocal training. Chinese manipulation was administered to Tiantu (CV 22) and Lianquan (CV 23), the convergent acupoints of the conception ...A 35-year-old female patient with spasmodic dysphonia underwent massage and vocal training. Chinese manipulation was administered to Tiantu (CV 22) and Lianquan (CV 23), the convergent acupoints of the conception meridian and Yin link vessel, Yamen (GV 15) and Fengfu (GV 16), the convergent acupoints of Du meridian and Yang link vessel, as well as large intestine channel of hand Yangming Hegu (LI 4), by gently pressing and rubbing for stimulation. In addition, throat muscle massage therapy and vocal training were performed. Results were evaluated using acoustic measurements in combination with a single statistical method. A comprehensive treatment combining vocal training and face-neck massage was shown to relieve dystonia of facial-cervical muscles in patients, as well as improve voice quality while providing a safe treatment method.展开更多
Hemiplegia after stroke has become a major cause of the world's high disabilities,and it is vital to enhance our understanding of post-stroke neuroplasticity to develop e±cient rehabilitation programs.This st...Hemiplegia after stroke has become a major cause of the world's high disabilities,and it is vital to enhance our understanding of post-stroke neuroplasticity to develop e±cient rehabilitation programs.This study aimed to explore the brain activation and network reorganization of the motor cortex(MC)with functional near-infrared spectroscopy(fNIRS).The MC hemodynamic signals were gained from 22 stroke patients and 14 healthy subjects during a shoulder-touching task with the right hand.The MC activation pattern and network attributes analyzed with the graph theory were compared between the two groups.The results revealed that healthy controls presented dominant activation in the left MC while stroke patients exhibited dominant activation in the bilateral hemispheres MC.The MC networks for the two groups had small-world properties.Compared with healthy controls,patients had higher transitivity and lower global e±ciency(GE),mean connectivity,and long connections(LCs)in the left MC.In addition,both MC activation and network attributes were correlated with patient's upper limb motor function.The results showed the stronger compensation of the unaffected motor area,the better recovery of the upper limb motor function for patients.Moreover,the MC network possessed high clustering and relatively sparse inter-regional connections during recovery for patients.Our results promote the understanding of MC reorganization during recovery and indicate that MC activation and network could provide clinical assessment signi¯cance in stroke patients.Given the advantages of fNIRS,it shows great application potential in the assessment and rehabilitation of motor function after stroke.展开更多
Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a major cause of disability. A serious consequence of SCI is the loss or partialloss of motor control. A number of therapies are currently being developed for restoring motor function in ...Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a major cause of disability. A serious consequence of SCI is the loss or partialloss of motor control. A number of therapies are currently being developed for restoring motor function in SCI patients. However, such approaches generally require intact neural motor systems for driving limb movements. There is evidence that SCI can generate such conditions in the brain,展开更多
基金the Third Phase College Education High Land Construction Project of Shanghai Munici-pality,the Fourth Phase Characteristic Speciality Construction Project in High Education Institutes by the Ministry of Education,No. TS11404
文摘A 35-year-old female patient with spasmodic dysphonia underwent massage and vocal training. Chinese manipulation was administered to Tiantu (CV 22) and Lianquan (CV 23), the convergent acupoints of the conception meridian and Yin link vessel, Yamen (GV 15) and Fengfu (GV 16), the convergent acupoints of Du meridian and Yang link vessel, as well as large intestine channel of hand Yangming Hegu (LI 4), by gently pressing and rubbing for stimulation. In addition, throat muscle massage therapy and vocal training were performed. Results were evaluated using acoustic measurements in combination with a single statistical method. A comprehensive treatment combining vocal training and face-neck massage was shown to relieve dystonia of facial-cervical muscles in patients, as well as improve voice quality while providing a safe treatment method.
基金was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Nos.2020YFC2004300,2020YFC2004303 and 2020YFC2004302)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.32000980 and 82171533)+1 种基金the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation(Nos.2022A1515140142,2019A1515110427 and 2020B1515120014)the Key Laboratory Program of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes(No.2020KSYS001)。
文摘Hemiplegia after stroke has become a major cause of the world's high disabilities,and it is vital to enhance our understanding of post-stroke neuroplasticity to develop e±cient rehabilitation programs.This study aimed to explore the brain activation and network reorganization of the motor cortex(MC)with functional near-infrared spectroscopy(fNIRS).The MC hemodynamic signals were gained from 22 stroke patients and 14 healthy subjects during a shoulder-touching task with the right hand.The MC activation pattern and network attributes analyzed with the graph theory were compared between the two groups.The results revealed that healthy controls presented dominant activation in the left MC while stroke patients exhibited dominant activation in the bilateral hemispheres MC.The MC networks for the two groups had small-world properties.Compared with healthy controls,patients had higher transitivity and lower global e±ciency(GE),mean connectivity,and long connections(LCs)in the left MC.In addition,both MC activation and network attributes were correlated with patient's upper limb motor function.The results showed the stronger compensation of the unaffected motor area,the better recovery of the upper limb motor function for patients.Moreover,the MC network possessed high clustering and relatively sparse inter-regional connections during recovery for patients.Our results promote the understanding of MC reorganization during recovery and indicate that MC activation and network could provide clinical assessment signi¯cance in stroke patients.Given the advantages of fNIRS,it shows great application potential in the assessment and rehabilitation of motor function after stroke.
文摘Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a major cause of disability. A serious consequence of SCI is the loss or partialloss of motor control. A number of therapies are currently being developed for restoring motor function in SCI patients. However, such approaches generally require intact neural motor systems for driving limb movements. There is evidence that SCI can generate such conditions in the brain,