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  1. The association between health service systems and pressure injury problems of individuals with chronic spinal cord injury in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand: a cross-sectional study
    Kammuang-Lue P, Pattanakuhar S, Engkasan JP, Wahyuni LK, Fauzi AA, Chotiyarnwong C, et al.
    Am J Phys Med Rehabil, 2024 Jan 19.
    PMID: 38261764 DOI: 10.1097/PHM.0000000000002437
    OBJECTIVES: To determine whether a health service system is an independent influencing factor of having pressure injury (PI) problems in individuals with chronic spinal cord injury (SCI) living in three countries.

    DESIGN: A cross-sectional study.

    METHODS: Data from the International Spinal Cord Injury Community Survey (InSCI) were analyzed. The PI problems were assessed using the Spinal Cord Injury Secondary Condition Scales (dichotomized to "having problem" and "not having problem". Health service systems were categorized as an inpatient-oriented SCI specialized system and a primary care-oriented system. A directed acyclic graph was applied to create a multivariable logistic regression model to determine the independent influencing factors of PI problems.

    RESULTS: Of 790 included participants, 277 (35%) had PI problems. Being recruited from countries with inpatient-oriented SCI specialized systems (Model 1) and visiting rehabilitation medicine/SCI physicians at least once a year (Model 2) is an independent negative correlating factor of PI problems (odds ratio = 0.569 [95%CI: 0.374-0.866] and 0.591 [95%CI: 0.405-0.864], respectively).

    CONCLUSION: SCI-specialized health service systems might be a protective factor of PI problems in middle-income country contexts. This result suggests the importance of having SCI-specialized services in middle-income countries to reduce the prevalence of PI problems.

  2. Fulltext Early AbobotulinumtoxinA (Dysport®) in Post-Stroke Adult Upper Limb Spasticity: ONTIME Pilot Study
    Rosales RL, Balcaitiene J, Berard H, Maisonobe P, Goh KJ, Kumthornthip W, et al.
    Toxins (Basel), 2018 06 21;10(7).
    PMID: 29933562 DOI: 10.3390/toxins10070253
    The ONTIME study investigated whether early post-stroke abobotulinumtoxinA injection delays appearance or progression of upper limb spasticity (ULS) symptoms. ONTIME (NCT02321436) was a 28-week, exploratory, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study of abobotulinumtoxinA 500U in patients with ULS (Modified Ashworth Scale [MAS] score ≥ 2) 2⁻12 weeks post-stroke. Patients were either symptomatic or asymptomatic (only increased MAS) at baseline. Primary efficacy outcome measure: time between injection and visit at which re-injection criteria were met (MAS ≥ 2 and ≥1, sign of symptomatic spasticity: pain, involuntary movements, impaired active or passive function). Forty-two patients were randomized (abobotulinumtoxinA 500U: n = 28; placebo: n = 14) with median 5.86 weeks since stroke. Median time to reach re-injection criteria was significantly longer for abobotulinumtoxinA (156 days) than placebo (32 days; log-rank: p = 0.0176; Wilcoxon: p = 0.0480). Eleven (39.3%) patients receiving abobotulinumtoxinA did not require re-injection for ≥28 weeks versus two (14.3%) in placebo group. In this exploratory study, early abobotulinumtoxinA treatment significantly delayed time to reach re-injection criteria compared with placebo in patients with post-stroke ULS. These findings suggest an optimal time for post-stroke spasticity management and help determine the design and sample sizes for larger confirmatory studies.
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