Our findings suggest that multidisciplinary rehabilitative care is useful in changing the course of motor impairment, balance, activities of daily living, and QoL. The effects lasted for at least 1 y after the intervention.

We report on a preliminary longitudinal study on 21 elderly patients to non-invasively quantify rehabilitation outcomes in skeletal muscle after bed-rest by a combined approach based on TD-NIRS (for hemodynamics) and sEMG (for myoelectric recordings).