Wednesday 31 May 2023

Effects of Rehabilitative Therapy in Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease | Chapter 9 | New Advances in Medicine and Medical Science Vol. 4

 Background: Charcot-Marie-Tooth ailment is not yet correctable. Symptoms are treated with splints/ orthoses or accompanying physical exercise healing. So this chapter aims to present the existent methods and their effectivity.Methods: The existing reviews and meta-studies are summarized and their judgments (only RCTs) are shown as patterned mean differences SMD in forest plots, sifted by symptoms.Results: Effect sizes range from SMD = 0.19 on walks, favoring control group (persistence training) to SMD = 0.80 on gait, rewarding experimental group (balance preparation).Conclusions: Strengthening and endurance training only show narrow effects on Charcot-Marie-Tooth manifestations. Balance training appears to be the most active.

Author(s) Details:

Andrea Dincher,
Institute for Sports Sciences, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany and Sports Sciences Institute, Saarland University, Germany.

Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/NAMMS-V4/article/view/10712

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