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Finding The Right Connection After Spinal Cord Injury
In a major step in spinal cord injury research, scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have demonstrated that regenerating axons can be guided to their correct targets and re-form connections after spinal cord injury. Their findings were published in the advance online edition of the journal Nature Neuroscience on August 2.
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The Downside Of Microtubule Stability - Study Shows Stalled Microtubules Might Be Responsible For Some Cases Of Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease
Stalled microtubules might be responsible for some cases of the neurological disorder Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease, Tanabe and Takei report in the June 15, 2009 issue of the Journal of Cell Biology. A mutant protein makes the microtubules too stable to perform their jobs, the researchers find.
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Factors That Increase Death In Stroke Patients Ages 15 To 49: Finnish Study
Heavy drinking, being 45 to 49 years old, type 1 diabetes or having a preceding infection are associated with more than twice the risk of death in stroke patients 15 to 49 years old, according to a Finnish study.
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Effectiveness Of Pelvic Floor Exercises, Digital Vaginal Palpation And Interpersonal Support On Stress Urinary Incontinence

UroToday.com - Pelvic floor muscle exercise (PFME) is most appropriate for patients with mild-to-moderate stress urinary incontinence (SUI). To obtain therapeutic efficacy, it is crucial that PFME be performed correctly and consistently. Without appropriate training; however, up to 30% of patients are not aware of how to perform PFME. This was a randomized clinical trial, Pretest-Posttest Control Group Design. The subjects totaled 108. Half were randomly assigned to the experimental group, and the other half were randomized to the control group. The objective of this study is to investigate the relative effects of interpersonal support and digital vaginal palpation (DVP) as part of PFME training as compared to PFME with a printed handout instruction, in a 12-week, individualized training program. To reflect the efficacy of DVP, a 1-h pad test was employed as the primary outcome measure. The decrease in the weight of the 1-h pad test from baseline was significant (p UroToday - the only urology website with original content written by global urology key opinion leaders actively engaged in clinical practice. To access the latest urology news releases from UroToday, go to: www.urotoday.com Copyright © 2009 - UroToday Copyright: Medical News Today Not to be reproduced without permission of Medical News Today


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