Stroke is the leading cause of brain damage and resultant disability. Rehabilitation help to restore lost abilities, improve quality of life, and decrease the long-term economic cost from stroke. Realistic goal setting, the active participation of both the patient and family, and the use of an interdisciplinary team approach are important for stroke rehabilitation. This article discusses not only te recovery patterns of various disabilities caused by stroke but also rehabilitation issues in stroke patients, including motor impairment, activity of daily living, cognition and perception, dysphagia and aspiration, spasticity, shoulder pain, problems of bladder and bowel, falls and deep venous thrombosis.
Accidental Falls ; Brain ; Cognition ; Deglutition Disorders ; Humans ; Muscle Spasticity ; Quality of Life ; Rehabilitation* ; Shoulder Pain ; Stroke* ; Urinary Bladder ; Venous Thrombosis

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Aged* ; Humans

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Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory*

One hundred and ninety-five cases of Orthopedic infection with positive bacteriology were reviewed with respect to their causative organism and sensitivity to antibiotics from Jan. 1974 to Dec. 1978 in Orthopedic Department of Seoul National University Hospital. The results were also compared with previous reports of our Department. The following observations were made ; 1) The identified causative microorganisms were 13 species. The Staphylococcus aureus continues to be the most frequent offender occupying 65.9% of total, which seems slight increasing tendency. 2) The increasing tendency of resistant Staphylococci to variable antibiotics was evident and Penicillin-resistant strains were proved in 82.8% of this series. 3) Of the antibiotics used during past two decades, the least resistant and cheap antibiotics to the Staphylococci were Chloramphenicol and Kanamycin. 4) The Streptococci occupied only 4.7% of total, suggesting decrease in incidence and also suggesting increase in incidence of Gram negative Bacilli. 5) The antibiotic sensitivity of Streptococci and Gram negative Bacilli were not changed significantly as compared with previous reports at our Department.
Anti-Bacterial Agents ; Bacteriology ; Chloramphenicol ; Criminals ; Humans ; Incidence ; Kanamycin ; Orthopedics ; Seoul ; Staphylococcus aureus

Reviewing 31 patients of fractures and dislocations of the cervical spine treated and managed at department of Orthopedic Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital from Jan. 1970 to Dec. 1979. We came to the following conclusions: 1. The incidence of trauma was high in the young men, most frequent in the 3rd decade. 2. Most of injuries were the results of automobile accidents (39%) or of fall (32%) on the head & neck. 3. The most frequent mechanism of injury was flexion-rotation type (46%). 4. The most frequent level of body fracture was C5 and the most frequent dislocation level was C6-7. 5. Mild or severe cord damage signs had developed in 19 of 31 patients (62%) and almost complete recovery was only 4 patients. 6. Improvement ef neurologic signs were related to immediate posttraumatic neurologic signs and there's no significant difference between conservative & operative treatment but early mobilization and prevention of complication was better in operative treatment.
Automobiles ; Dislocations ; Early Ambulation ; Head ; Humans ; Incidence ; Male ; Neck ; Neurologic Manifestations ; Orthopedics ; Seoul ; Spine

It has been known that the obesity is one of the predisposing factors of the primary degenerative arthritis of knee. And nowadays, it seems that the number of obese person increases gradually in Korea. The authors studied 50 cases of the degenerative arthritis of knee clinically and statistically, compared with 50 cases of the control group, in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Seoul National University Hoispital from Jan. to Aug. 1981. The results were as follows: l. Among the degenerative arthritis of knee, the ratio of male: female was 1:9, and the age group with the highest frequency was the 5th. decade (48%). 2. Thirty-two cases (64%) was obese in the degenerative arthritis group, and 7 cases (14%) was obese in the control group. 3. The incidence of obesity in the degenerative arthritis group was 13.5 times higher than that in the control group, and it was highly significant statistically.
Causality ; Female ; Humans ; Incidence ; Knee ; Korea ; Male ; Obesity ; Orthopedics ; Osteoarthritis ; Seoul

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Thoracic Nerves*

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Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory* ; Spinal Stenosis* ; Spine*

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Humans ; Tibial Nerve*

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H-Reflex*