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Clinical scales are important tools for quantitatively evaluating impairments and disabilities related to diseases. Clinical scales are also used in many clinical studies to assess therapeutic effects. Spinal cord disorders...
Outcome measurements are essential to monitor the clinical course or the treatment response of peripheral neuropathy. Even though there are no designated standard scale for peripheral neuropathy currently, several clinical...
The variable predominance of the affected muscle groups and the fluctuating severity and extent of myasthenia gravis (MG) makes it difficult to assess and classify these patients. With new treatments...
Neuropathic pain caused by a lesion or disease of the somatosensory nervous system is underdiagnosed and difficult to treat. Questionnaires based on self-reported symptoms have improved diagnosis and management of...
With the rapid increase in the number of clinical trials in myopathy over the past decade, there is an increasing need for clinical scales to reflect patient’s clinical status. This...
Diabetic neuropathy and chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy are complex disorders affecting different nerve fiber group and remain as major source of morbidity and decreased quality of life of the patients. Given...
Medicine places its ultimate purpose at prolonging people’s healthy lives. Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) has emerged as one of the key measures of medical practice. HRQoL, the most important...
The autonomic nervous system plays an important role in maintaining homeostasis mediated by the parasympathetic, sympathetic and enteric systems. Autonomic failure adversely affects body function and may increase morbidity and...
Motor neuron diseases (MND) are heterogeneous spectra of disorders that that primarily affect the motor neurons (MN) resulting in motor nerve and muscle degeneration. The pathophysiological mechanisms of MN cell...