Neurorehabilitation News

Survey data provided insight into the symptomatic burden of limb girdle muscular dystrophy, according to study results published in Neuromuscular Disorders.

Questionnaires may help assess global functional outcomes after traumatic brain injury and may provide significant practical advantages vs. interviews, according to results of a cohort study published in JAMA Network Open.

The FDA has designated a novel, noninvasive hypothermic therapy device designed to reduce concussion symptom severity as a breakthrough device, according to a press release.

Small fiber neuropathy appears to have an increasing incidence rate, with greater trends toward obesity, according to study results published in Neurology.

Researchers found rare neurological adverse events related to two COVID-19 vaccines, as well as to infection with the virus itself, but concluded the risks are greater among those who were infected, according to a study in Nature Medicine.

Cognitive impairment occurred relatively often within several months of patients having had COVID-19, according to results of a cross-sectional study published in JAMA Network Open.

Healio Neurology featured some of the major stories from the American Neurological Association Annual Meeting.

Among patients with traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries, cervical spinal cord injury was more severe and led to worse neurological and functional outcomes compared with those with only spinal cord injury, but survival was not affected.

The likelihood that opioid treatment for common neurological conditions was initiated appeared to decrease with greater access to neurologists or other specialists who offered alternative pain treatment.

Use of a transitions of care clinic may reduce 30-day stroke readmissions, according to findings presented at the American Neurological Association annual meeting.