This content is machine translated Meta-analysis of over 100 studies Tired, weary, exhausted – effective means against fatigue Fatigue often occurs during and after cancer therapy. Above all, exercise can help against this. Psychological measures also have positive effects. Pharmacotherapy, on the other hand, is of little use.…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Return to Sport The long and complex road from sports injury back to the sports field After a serious sports injury, it is not uncommon for one of the first questions asked by the athlete to be the duration of the impending outage. The will to…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Back pain Lumbago “Lumbago” is usually harmless and resolves itself within a few hours/days. Acute pain should be terminated as soon as possible to avoid chronicity. Further diagnostics are only necessary in case…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Ankle injuries Frequent, but not routine Foot sprain or OSG distortion is the most common injury in medicine as well as in sports medicine. Perhaps for this very reason, it is not always taken seriously enough,…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Neurorehabilitation after stroke Remarkable progress in therapy The most important goal of neurorehabilitation is to achieve adapted participation through activity training. Through interdisciplinary collaboration among all treatment groups, realistic therapy goals are continually adjusted. Personal factors and…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Stroke Therapy “Patients benefit from intervention through the vascular system” At the 20th Annual Meeting of the Swiss Cerebrovascular Society SHG, Prof. Jan Gralla, MD, from Inselspital Bern, Switzerland, spoke on “New Approaches in the Intra-arterial Treatment of Acute Stroke.”…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Stroke Unit Long-term effects of treatment in a stroke unit. In the acute treatment of cerebral stroke, in addition to lysis, treatment in a spatially defined stroke unit with an interdisciplinary, specialized team is an important factor in reducing mortality…
View Post 12 min This content is machine translated Overuse-related nerve damage Peripheral nerve lesions due to sports Damage to peripheral nerves caused by sports often remains undetected for a long time, because the neurologist is usually not routinely consulted for sports injuries. As training volumes increase, overuse-related…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Nerve bottleneck syndrome Diagnostic value of nerve sonography in carpal tunnel syndrome Carpal tunnel syndrome is the most common nerve constriction syndrome. The diagnosis can often be made clinically with a focused history and neurologic examination. To assess nerve function as well…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated International Symposium at Ittingen Charterhouse September 2016 Translational research: step by step forward or great leap forward For the first time, four internationally known foundations, all with paraplegia research as their purpose, have organized a meeting together. At the invitation of the International Foundation for Research in…
View Post 16 min This content is machine translated More than drugs Current therapy of Parkinson’s disease Levodopa remains the most effective and well-tolerated medication for Parkinson’s disease. However, half of the patients experience fluctuations in efficacy (wearing-off, dyskinesias) after only a few years. Effective countermeasures are…
