prevalence of gait problems among older adults

... a single cause of a gait disturbance can often be pinpointed Older adults often have multiple deficits that may contribute to or exacerbate the gait disorder Many older adults often have multiple ... Falls in Older Adults 63 James A Ashton-Miller I Prevalence of Gait Problems Among Older Adults 63 II Age-Related Changes in Biomechanical Capacities 63 III Gait on Level ... assessment of gait disorders and fall risk In Section III, experts describe the current state -of- the-art of management of gait disorders in general and offer a guide to the management of certain...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 23:20

... analysis of the importance of the R2 TATA-box in vivo using the R2-luciferase reporter genes showed that a mutation of the R2 TATA-box only resulted in a limited decrease of the Ó FEBS 2003 Role of ... TATA-box, and also as a repressor of transcription, as a deletion or a mutation of this sequence or addition of TAFII135 antibodies leads to a three- to fivefold up-regulation of transcription from the ... Solution structure of a TBP-TAF (II), 230 complex: protein mimicry of the minor groove surface of the TATA box unwound by TBP Cell 94, 573–583 34 Weissman, J.D., Brown, J.A., Howcroft, T.K., Hwang,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 02:20

... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2002, 99(Suppl 1):2466-2472 25 Lawton MP, Brody EM: Assessment of older people: self maintaining of older people; ... measure of system complexity Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1991, 88:2297-2301 19 Dingwell JB, Cusumano JP: Nonlinear time series analysis of normal ... percentiles of the sample The line in the middle of the box is the sample median The vertical lines extending above and below the box show the extent of the rest of the data Lamoth et al Journal of NeuroEngineering...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... duration of the APAs was determined as the time between the onset of the signal of interest and the onset of the footswitch sensor (end of the APA) The Figure exemplifies this method of detection ... mass Furthermore, the absence of wires enables us to obtain measurements with minimal disruption of the natural movement of the subjects Page of 10 Figure Placement of sensors ML stands for mediolateral, ... calculated using the SD of the baseline during the first s of standing, multiplied a factor (F) The end of the APA was calculated for each signal and each combination of factors and cut-off frequencies...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... development of a potentially stand-alone portable system, that may act as a “virtual gait trainer” with the potentials of providing a summary score of walking ability in terms of gait Tura et ... training, and, possibly, of alerting the therapist or the patient in the case of worsening of these gait features (biofeedback approach) The system could then be used even out of the clinics or rehabilitation ... Variability of step kinematics in young and older adults Gait Post 2004, 20:26-29 21 Sadeghi H, Allard P, Prince F, Labelle H: Symmetry and limb dominance in able-bodied gait: a review Gait Post...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... of the healthy older adults to walking in near darkness also parallels the effects of an attention demanding task on the gait of healthy young and older adults [35,36] When healthy young or older ... of those studied had a normal gait, 69 percent had a gait disorder due to known disease, and about 11 percent of the subjects had an idiopathic "senile gait disorder", i.e., a gait disorder of ... inadequate lighting, but the effects of vision and lighting have not been studied in older adults with a HLGD To more fully characterize the gait of older adults with a HLGD and their reliance...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... further analyses Effect of the numbers of replicates on data variability gene expression experiments Average coefficient of variation with increasing number of replicates of gene expression experiments ... from a total of four paws of two arthritic animals When the number of replicates is low and the distribution of data in the general population is basically unknown, the applicability of Student's ... importance of cell adhesion and cytoskeleton remodeling during the initiation phase of arthritis Expression patterns of early arthritis genes R203 Hierarchical clustering of a large number of phase-specific...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22

... studied the association of ATI, infusion-related reactions and maintenance of infliximab Page of accordance with the guidelines of the French Society of Rheumatology for the use of infliximab [8,9] ... infliximab Our results are similar to those of previous studies reporting ATI in 43% of RA patients and 29% of SpA Page of patients in the first year of treatment [5,6] We found that immunisation ... detected ATI in half of the ATIpos patients before a median of 3.7 months of treatment Immunogenicity of biopharmaceuticals is not restricted to chimeric mAb In a large cohort study of RA patients...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 17:22

... reductions of 0.4 × log10 and 1.1 × log10 after 14 and 28 days of treatment, respectively (Figure 1b) Interestingly, the level of SIV-DNA was not significantly reduced in the lymph nodes and spleen of ... were killed at the end of treatment (21 days pi) Initiation of HAART days after SIV infection conducts to a significant decrease of PVL (a) but non-significant reduction of CVL (b) Viral dissemination ... showed very low diffusion of IDV in the lymph node of macaque after oral administration, the very low level of IDV measured in the spleen and peripheral lymph nodes of treated macaques confirm...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 01:20

... progressive but limited reduction of the area of intersection (Figure 3b) leads to a final cell that retains some of the characteristics of a normal cell but has a number of distinct properties that ... intersection as proportional to the number of shared Analysis of the initiation and progression of cancer cells from natural (normal) cells and the heterogeneity of a cancer population raises two intriguing ... l, m, n} Reductionism seeks to interpret the wide variety of natural phenomena on the basis of the behaviour of a restricted number of basic constituents subject to simple but rigorous laws [8-10]...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:21

... statistics mask higher prevalence of early and high risk sexual activity among certain populations For example, the average age of sexual debut among inner-city youth is thirteen years of age, three years ... indicated in the table, even though the inclusion of the block of rates of change variables increased overall model fit, none of the unique effects of Page of 12 (page number not for citation purposes) ... Initiation To examine the effects of internalizing and externalizing problems in sixth grade and their rate of linear change over the course of middle school on the likelihood of sex- http://www.capmh.com/content/1/1/14...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... patients had negative cultures Among these 59 cases with only organisms identification (SAPS II score on admission of 44 ± 17 and SOFA score of ± at the time of initiation of therapy), therapeutic ... emergencies were reported in 39 (36%) of the 109 cases with negative samples (SAPS II score on admission of 38 ± 17 and SOFA score of ± at the time of initiation of therapy) Montravers et al Critical ... factors of mortality in the population of patients receiving new AT (Tables and 5) Hosmer-Lemshow goodness of fit Chi square was 5.06, P = 0.75 Among the identified risks of mortality, the absence of...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... combination of time-functions of angular positions and velocities of its joint actuators Such time-functions are called trajectories The combination of joint trajectories is known as gait Computing gaits ... stability of internal or ˙ zero dynamics is determined by the locations of the system zeros and the stability of ZD implies global stability of the internal dynamics The study of ZD is a simpler way of ... and waist-link is the hip The biped has twelve DOF Two DOF at ankle, one DOF at knee and three DOF at hip, i.e., six DOF in each leg (Fig 2.1) Each DOF corresponds to an independent actuator tradeoff...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 09:10

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Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 19:15

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Ngày tải lên: 21/12/2013, 04:18

... it is only be a matter of time before the steady improvement of these software platforms will threaten the equipment vendor’s market share of large businesses The Impact of Voice over IP (VoIP) ... inexpensive First, the introduction of multimedia PCs and PC-based software provided the platform for virtual phones, known as softphones These softphones were the beginning of a revolution in voice communications ... LLC All rights reserved Page Comparison of Open-Source Software to Proprietary Software Advantages of Open Source • There is no license fee Proprietary software requires either a per-seat or site...

Ngày tải lên: 17/01/2014, 06:20

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Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 11:20

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Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 12:20

... None of these studies, however, provides conclusive evidence of the effects of aging on the gait patterns of the elderly population because of small sample sizes and limita­ tions in the number of ... characteristics of young and elderly women have emphasized gait intercycle variability4 and the influences of heel height on gait. 5 This study of the linear, temporal, and rotational aspects of the gait ... specific gait characteristics examined Additional comparisons of the gait characteristics of healthy young women and healthy elderly women are necessary be­ cause gait training is a major portion of...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 06:20

... analyses of growing daughter strands A fast increase of the DNA synthesis rate either reflects release of replicon initiations or stimulation of elongation, or both To determine the cause of the ... profile consists of 31 fractions (B) Comparison of the profiles of 15 (m) or 40 (d) reoxygenated cells (same as in Fig 2A) in percentage of total c.p.m ·, Matured 14C-labeled bulk DNA of T24 cells ... after h of hypoxia Nascent daughter DNA chains were pulse-labeled with 10 lCi [3H]ThdÆmL)1 before the end of the respective incubation conditions (A) Comparison of the gradient profiles of normoxic,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 00:20