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Le ortesi sono dispositivi finalizzati al recupero di una funzione corporea in quanto migliorano la biomeccanica, la funzionalità e la performance. Distinguiamo Corsetti dinamici, semirigidi e rigidi. Importante sottolineare che l'uso dei corsetti deve essere limitato soltanto nella fase acuta.

BACKGROUND: The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) Generic-30 Set (previously referred to as Rehabilitation Set) is a minimal set of ICF categories for reporting and assessing functioning and disability in clinical populations with different health conditions along the continuum of care. Recently, the Italian Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (SIMFER) developed an Italian modification of the simple and intuitive descriptions (SID) of these categories. This study was the first one to implement the use of the SID in practice. AIM: The main aims of this study are: 1) to implement the use of the ICF in clinical practice and research among Italian Residents in PRM, and 2) to verify if the SID made the application of ICF Generic 30 Set more user-friendly than the original descriptions; 3) to examine the prevalence of functioning problems of patients accessing Rehabilitation Services to serve as reference for the development of an ICF-based clinical data collection tool. DESIGN: Multicenter cross-sectional study. SETTING: Italian Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PRM) outpatient rehabilitation services. POPULATION: Patients referring to Italian PRM outpatient rehabilitation services and Italian Residents in PRM. METHODS: Each School of Specialization involved, randomly, received the ICF Generic-30 Set with the original descriptions or with the SID. Residents collected over a 4-month period (April-July 2016) patients data related to the ICF Generic-30 Set categories. Moreover, the residents self-assessed their difficulty in using the ICF Generic-30 Set with the original descriptions or with the SID, through a Numeric Rating Scale (NRS). RESULTS: Ninety-three residents collected functioning data of 864 patients (mean aged 57.7±19.3) with ICF Generic-30 Set: 304 with the original descriptions and 560 with SID. The difficulty in using the ICF Generic-30 Set with SID was rated as lower than using the original descriptions (NRS 2.8±2.5 vs. 3.5±3.1; P

GIACOMO SERPOTTA AND THE “EQUALIZATION OF THE ARTS”: DECORATION OF THE ORATORIES BETWEEN VITALISTIC MANIPULATION AND CLASSICIST VOCATION Ettore Sessa The value of the whole of Giacomo Serpotta's artistic vision in the orchestration of the figu¬rative apparatuses of his oratories was certainly one of the principal primers of his historical-critical raising in the modernist period. In 1901 Mauceri and in 1911 Ricci and Basile heighten a profile of it, however synthetic, of angling and above all of different breath from the rediscovery realized in positivist age. Classifiable, in fact, among the eighteenth century precedents of Gesamtkunstwerk aesthetical plant (according to a rather diffused custom within the artistic historiography of modernist culturaI area or of decadentist origin, as in different formalistic demonstrations of the wealthiest society Belle Époque) the progress of Serpottas artistic way towards tangible expressions of the idea of «the whole work of art» has a unmistakable im¬print of his and, at the same time, a feasibility thanks to the plasticism of gestures and to the uni¬tary multiplicity of his modeled. In his oratories arrangements the "realist" component, not exempted from hedonistic sensual witty remarks, acts on a foundation of Hellenic taste (also in the use of profiles and architectural elements). With wise modulation and with dosing diversified for intensity, according the nature of the subjects, combines history (see the «teatrini» with perspective sceneries, among which the Lepanto battle), micro history (from feminine allegorical subjects, to attractive dames modernly adorned with ends and brocades, to "picciotti" proudly ragged and to the anecdotal of the daily life), mysticism (from the devotional subjects to the allegories of the virtues), obscurity (from numerological components to philosophical attributes) and, finally, mythology (from the allegorical correspondences between Christianity and paganism to classical simbology). Despite the actual halving of this group of oratories (was destroyed by traumatic events as earthquakes and war actions, or by villainous demolitions big part of Serpottas works, among which the SS. Sacrament oratories to Kalsa and those of Saint Maria del Ponticello), the comparison among the palermitan examples reached us entire allows the individualization of the characters of originality typical of the generaI composition, over that of those figurative unanimously accredited among the most valid of the late- Baroque European sculpture. The typical scheme of these oratories, places with a strong secular imprint (predisposed as for cultural reunions how as for the preclusive congregational assemblies, to which the only ones not admitted affiliate were the artists), has as constants: the hall with a rectangular plant; the skiff or pavilion vault with plaster decorations dissimulating the constructive geometry; the sculptural wall register above of a high plinth; windows on the greatest sides (in number of three); two doors in the counterfacade, originally with desk for the assemblies in central position, below the principal devotional allegorical composition. The first oratory to which Giacomo Serpotta imposes an unitary imprint, except the cappellone only defined between 1717 and the following year) is that of SS. Rosary in S. Cita; he has worked since 1685 to 1688 on behalf of SS. Rosary Company. Serpotta is twenty nine, but already since almost ten years, after the apprenticeship with subordinate roles, he showed himself almost beginning in mute with the decorations of Madonna of the Pity church in Monreale, where he operated like Procopio De' Ferrari's collaborator, and perhaps with his interventions in 1678 in the lateral walls of S. Mercurio oratory, to which follow the 1679 decoration works in the Charity oratory in St. Bartholomeo of the Incurable people (no more existing), perhaps S. Pietro and S. Paolo statues dating back to 1680 for the greatest altar in Gancia church, the marble model for Charles H's equestrian monument for Messina (then realized in 1684) and during the two years 1683-1684 the scenic decorations for the transept altars of Carmine Maggiore church (where he collaborates with his brother Giuseppe and realizes the couples of twisted columns gilded and commented by a theory of plaster miniature scenes disposed according to a spiral development). Immediately after S. Cita oratory he realized, between 1688 and 1691, the decorative apparatuses of the Sacrament oratory in S. Nicolò to Kalsa (destroyed because of 1823 earthquake). Only eight years after the completion of this work (about which it was hypothesized that it were an advancement in comparison to the intervention in S. Cita) Giacomo Serpotta is entrusted by S. Francesco from Assisi and S. Lorenzo Companies to realize the complex allegorical and explanatory cycle of the plasters of S. Lorenzo orato¬ry. He worked partly on Giacomo Amato's sketches (to which are probably owed the reform interventions that confer to this oratory a great architectural "squaring" in comparison to others), completing the presbytery within 1706, while already from 1701 he is busy in the definition of the walls. In 1703 he began the counter facade with the monumental wall framework and high-relief representation of St. Lorenzo Martyrdom.

This paper examines the view of the burden of persuasion as meta argument and elaborates the meta-argumentative aspects of a burden-of-persuasion semantics in argumentation. An argumentation framework composed of a meta level (dealing with the burden) and an object level (dealing with standard arguments) is proposed and discussed, and its equivalence with the burden-of-persuasion model in argumentation is proved. Finally, a computationally-feasible implementation of the meta-argumentation approach is presented.

Le fratture dell'estremo prossimale del femore, da fragilità, i età geriatrica, costituiscono un rilevante problema di salute pubblica destinato a peggiorare nel corso degli anni. E' stata condotta un'analisi retrospettiva su 237 pz osteoporotici (gruppo A) di entrambi i sessi con esiti di frattura laterale di femore sottoposti ad intervento chirurgico di osteosintesi con chiodo endomidollare. Come gruppo di controllo (gruppo B) abbiamo valutato 230 pazienti non andati incontro a ad alcun evento fratturativo. Il nostro studio evidenzia l'importante ruolo giocato dalle comorbilità nel determinare l'aumento del rischio di frattura laterale dell'epifisi prossimale del femore nel paziente anziano con osteoporosi.

I "disordini dell'articolazione temporomandibolare (DTM" rappresentano un eterogeneo e complesso gruppo di patologie del sistema stomatognatico che si manifestano con quadri algici e/o disfunzionali a carico dell'ATM, dei muscoli e delle componenti ad essa correlate. Lo studio è stato condotto su 21 pazienti (16 donne e 5 uomini) di età compresa tra i 41 ed i 65 anni affetti da artrosi dell'ATM (3 presentavano anche una sublussazione) afferiti presso l'U.O.C. di Riabilitazione dell'A.O.U.P. Paolo Giaccone tra gennaio 2012 e marzo 2013. Tutti i pazienti sono stati sottoposti al seguente protocollo riabilitativo: terapia farmacologica con tiocolchicoside, infiltrativa con acido ialuronico e 20 sedute di FKT consistente in ginnastica posturale e rieducazione funzionale dell'ATM. Nella difficile gestione terapeutica dei DTM un protocollo terapeutico che unisca terapia infiltrativa, rieducazione posturale e funzionale e terapia farmacologica con miorilassanti costituisce un'interessante opzione terapeutica esplicando la sua funzione specifica in quel tipo di patologie articolari (intracapsulari) in cui vi sia una componente algica ed una limitazione funzionale ed è dunque meritevole di ulteriori studi di approfondimento.

La spondilite anchilosante è una malattia infiammatoria cronica ad eziologia sconosciuta che colpisce prevalentemente lo scheletro assile ma che può coinvolgere anche le entesi periferiche. Presso l'ambulatorio dell'U.O.C. di Riabilitazione dell'A.U.O.P. "Paolo Giaccone" di Palermo, in diciotto mesi (Aprile 2011-Maggio 2012) sono stati arruolati 24 soggetti (6 donne- 18 uomini). affetti da Spondilite Anchilosante HLA B27 diagnosticata secondo i criteri europei. Il presente studio ha mostrato efficacia nel trattamento di pazienti con SA mediante un progetto-programma riabilitativo mirato e specifico per distretto articolare. Svolgere con regolarità e costanza l'esercizio terapeutico in associazione all'anti-TNFalfa ha permesso di ridurre rapidamente il dolore, mantenere nel tempo un'elasticità funzionale del rachide ed una postura corretta, permettendo così una migliore qualità di vita sociale e professionale.

AS is a chronic and progressive pathology that notably cripples the patient's psyco-physical status, with a remarkable compromising of the relational life. Practising regularly the therapeutic exercise along with the anti-TNF alpha, allowed a quick pain reduction, a long maintenance of the rachis functional elasticity and a correct posture, giving a better social and professional life quality.

An early rehabilitation program, in combination with proper medication, can prevent the worsen of the hand algo-dystrophy towards a permanent framework characterized by muscle-tendon stiffness, contractures and ankylosis of the distal small joints. We can assert, consequently, that synergy between functional rehabilitation, treatment with disodium clodronate, PEMF and Laser Nd-Yag is a main point for therapeutic efficacy