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Review
. 2019 Mar 24:2019:5613680.
doi: 10.1155/2019/5613680. eCollection 2019.

Is Stiff Person Syndrome Benefited by Physical Therapy Intervention? Summary of Case Reports

Anandh Vaiyapuri  1 , Prashant Kashyap  1 , Nivedita Kashyap  1 , Hariraja Muthusamy  1 , Radhakrishnan Unnikrishnan  1 , Mazen Alqahtani  1
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Is Stiff Person Syndrome Benefited by Physical Therapy Intervention? Summary of Case Reports

Anandh Vaiyapuri et al. Biomed Res Int. .

Abstract

It is interesting to be aware that there is no Randomized Clinical Trials (RCT) research article except a few case-study reports which have been reported about the physical therapy (PT) intervention for stiff person syndrome (SPS). This study was designed to determine the benefits of PT in cases with SPS through analysis of case reports, thereby to raise awareness among physical therapist about the most beneficial PT interventions for SPS. We executed acomputer-based search with a diagnosis of SPS who underwent PT and articles published only in English. We selected case-study reports because of nonavailability of RCT articles to review the complaints, deformities, contractures, precipitating factors, interventions, outcomes, results, disability, and benefits of PT management among SPS. We concluded that PT training is substantiated to be a necessary and beneficial intervention in rehabilitation of patients with SPS.

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