Effect of Baseline Spastic Hemiparesis on Recovery of Upper-Limb Function Following Botulinum Toxin Type A Injections and Postinjection Therapy

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 90, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1462-1468

  Chang, Chia Lin ^a   Munin, Michael C ^a   Skidmore, Elizabeth R ^b   Niyonkuru, Christian ^a   Huber, Lynne M ^d   Weber, Douglas J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Botulinum toxin type A; Electric stimulation therapy; Muscle spasticity; Recovery of function; Rehabilitation; Stroke; Upper extremity

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN A;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; HAND FUNCTION; HAND MOVEMENT; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; BOTULINUM TOXINS, TYPE A; HAND; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; NEUROMUSCULAR AGENTS; PARESIS; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STROKE; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 69549124332     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2009.03.008     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Nakayama H., Jorgensen H.S., Raaschou H.O., and Olsen T.S. Recovery of upper extremity function in stroke patients: the Copenhagen Stroke Study. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 75 (1994) 394-398
2. Olsen T.S. Arm and leg paresis as outcome predictors in stroke rehabilitation. Stroke 21 (1990) 247-251
3. Wolf S.L., Blanton S., Baer H., Breshears J., and Butler A.J. Repetitive task practice: a critical review of constraint-induced movement therapy in stroke. Neurologist 8 (2002) 325-338
4. Woldag H., and Hummelsheim H. Evidence-based physiotherapeutic concepts for improving arm and hand function in stroke patients: a review. J Neurol 249 (2002) 518-528
5. van der Lee J.H., Kwakkel G., Lankhorst G.J., Bouter L.M., Woldag H., and Hummelsheim H. Evidence-based physiotherapeutic concepts for improving arm and hand function in stroke patients: a review. J Neurol 249 (2002) 518-528 [Letter] J Neurol 2003;250(1):119
6. Taub E., Uswatte G., and Pidikiti R. Constraint-induced movement therapy: a new family of techniques with broad application to physical rehabilitation-a clinical review. J Rehabil Res Dev 36 (1999) 237-251
7. Blanton S., and Wolf S.L. An application of upper-extremity constraint-induced movement therapy in a patient with subacute stroke. Phys Ther 79 (1999) 847-853
8. Miltner W.H., Bauder H., Sommer M., Dettmers C., and Taub E. Effects of constraint-induced movement therapy on patients with chronic motor deficits after stroke: a replication. Stroke 30 (1999) 586-592
9. Dettmers C., Teske U., Hamzei F., Uswatte G., Taub E., and Weiller C. Distributed form of constraint-induced movement therapy improves functional outcome and quality of life after stroke. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 86 (2005) 204-209
10. Kwakkel G., Rietberg M., and van Wegen E. Constraint-induced movement therapy improves upper extremity motor function after stroke. Aust J Physiother 53 (2007) 132
11. Wolf S.L., Winstein C.J., Miller J.P., et al. Retention of upper limb function in stroke survivors who have received constraint-induced movement therapy: the EXCITE randomised trial. Lancet Neurol 7 (2008) 33-40
12. Brashear A., Gordon M.F., Elovic E., et al. Intramuscular injection of botulinum toxin for the treatment of wrist and finger spasticity after a stroke. N Engl J Med 347 (2002) 395-400
13. Yablon S.A., Brashear A., Gordon M.F., et al. Formation of neutralizing antibodies in patients receiving botulinum toxin type A for treatment of poststroke spasticity: a pooled-data analysis of three clinical trials. Clin Ther 29 (2007) 683-690
14. Yablon S.A., Agana B.T., Ivanhoe C.B., and Boake C. Botulinum toxin in severe upper extremity spasticity among patients with traumatic brain injury: an open-labeled trial. Neurology 47 (1996) 939-944
15. Bakheit A.M., Thilmann A.F., Ward A.B., et al. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, dose-ranging study to compare the efficacy and safety of three doses of botulinum toxin type A (Dysport) with placebo in upper limb spasticity after stroke. Stroke 31 (2000) 2402-2406
16. Francisco G.E. Botulinum toxin for post-stroke spastic hypertonia: a review of its efficacy and application in clinical practice. Ann Acad Med Singapore 36 (2007) 22-30
17. Wang H.C., Hsieh L.F., Chi W.C., and Lou S.M. Effect of intramuscular botulinum toxin injection on upper limb spasticity in stroke patients. Am J Phys Med Rehabil 81 (2002) 272-278
18. Rousseaux M., Kozlowski O., and Froger J. Efficacy of botulinum toxin A in upper limb function of hemiplegic patients. J Neurol 249 (2002) 76-84
19. Pandyan A.D., Vuadens P., van Wijck F.M., Stark S., Johnson G.R., and Barnes M.P. Are we underestimating the clinical efficacy of botulinum toxin (type A)?. Quantifying changes in spasticity, strength and upper limb function after injections of Botox to the elbow flexors in a unilateral stroke population. Clin Rehabil 16 (2002) 654-660
20. Barreca S., Wolf S.L., Fasoli S., and Bohannon R. Treatment interventions for the paretic upper limb of stroke survivors: a critical review. Neurorehabil Neural Repair 17 (2003) 220-226
21. Kwakkel G., Kollen B.J., van der Grond J., and Prevo A.J. Probability of regaining dexterity in the flaccid upper limb: impact of severity of paresis and time since onset in acute stroke. Stroke 34 (2003) 2181-2186
22. de Paiva A., Meunier F.A., Molgo J., Aoki K.R., and Dolly J.O. Functional repair of motor endplates after botulinum neurotoxin type A poisoning: biphasic switch of synaptic activity between nerve sprouts and their parent terminals. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 96 (1999) 3200-3205
23. Gowland C., Stratford P., Ward M., et al. Measuring physical impairment and disability with the Chedoke-McMaster Stroke Assessment. Stroke 24 (1993) 58-63
24. Uswatte G., Taub E., Morris D., Light K., and Thompson P.A. The Motor Activity Log-28: assessing daily use of the hemiparetic arm after stroke. Neurology 67 (2006) 1189-1194
25. Platz T., Pinkowski C., van Wijck F., Kim I.H., di Bella P., and Johnson G. Reliability and validity of arm function assessment with standardized guidelines for the Fugl-Meyer Test, Action Research Arm Test and Box and Block Test: a multicentre study. Clin Rehabil 19 (2005) 404-411
26. van der Lee J.H., Beckerman H., Lankhorst G.J., and Bouter L.M. The responsiveness of the Action Research Arm Test and the Fugl-Meyer Assessment Scale in chronic stroke patients. J Rehabil Med 33 (2001) 110-113
27. Bohannon R.W., and Smith M.B. Interrater reliability of a modified Ashworth scale of muscle spasticity. Phys Ther 67 (1987) 206-207
28. Ansari N.N., Naghdi S., Arab T.K., and Jalaie S. The interrater and intrarater reliability of the Modified Ashworth Scale in the assessment of muscle spasticity: limb and muscle group effect. Neurorehabilitation 23 (2008) 231-237
29. Uswatte G., Taub E., Morris D., Vignolo M., and McCulloch K. Reliability and validity of the upper-extremity Motor Activity Log-14 for measuring real-world arm use. Stroke 36 (2005) 2493-2496
30. Brashear A., Zafonte R., Corcoran M., et al. Inter- and intrarater reliability of the Ashworth Scale and the Disability Assessment Scale in patients with upper-limb poststroke spasticity. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 83 (2002) 1349-1354
31. Benjamini Y., and Hochberg Y. Controlling the false discovery rate: a practical and powerful approach to multiple testing. J R Stat Soc Ser B Stat Methodol 57 (1995) 289-300
32. Mirbagheri M.M., and Rymer W.Z. Time-course of changes in arm impairment after stroke: variables predicting motor recovery over 12 months. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 89 (2008) 1507-1513
33. Chang C.L., Kubo M., Buzzi U., and Ulrich B. Early changes in muscle activation patterns of toddlers during walking. Infant Behav Dev 29 (2006) 175-188
34. Naghdi S., Ansari N.N., Azarnia S., and Kazemnejad A. Interrater reliability of the Modified Modified Ashworth Scale (MMAS) for patients with wrist flexor muscle spasticity. Physiother Theory Pract 24 (2008) 372-379