... National SpinalCordInjury Statistical Center: The SpinalCordInjury Model Systems’ data collection syllabus for the National SpinalCordInjury Database Birmingham, Alabama: National SpinalCordInjury ... Quality of life after spinalcordinjury J Neurol Phys Ther 2005, 29:139-146 17 Hammell KW: Exploring quality of life following high spinalcord injury: a review and critique SpinalCord 2004, 42:491-502 ... Biering-Sorensen F, Baumberger M, Charlifue S, Post MW, Campbell R, Kovindha A, Ring H, Sinnott A, et al: ICF Core Sets for individuals with spinalcordinjuryin the long-term context Spinal Cord...
... reduction in motor command [40], or an increase in motor command noise, can lead to an increase in curvature Any inappropriate increase in mechanical impairments due to spasticity or an increase in ... that increases curvature instroke patients would not be limited to the degradation in trajectory planning Degradation in the internal model [38,39], distortion in the feedback including sensory ... purpose of intensive training to improve finger extension movement through the HANDS therapy [9] These patients (P1-P13) were expected to obtain major improvements inhandfunction (as evaluated using...
... measured for more objective and accurate evaluation ofspinalcord dysfunctions Several investigators have suggested that ambulation after spinalinjury can be predicted by SEPs [11] Spinal trauma ... in cats with spinalcordinjury and found dexamethasone not to be more effective than a placebo in improving neurological outcome [10] Increasing the dose of dexamethasone to less than half of ... suction Spinal canal size was examined with blunt microdissector According to the size ofspinal canal, 15×8×3 ~ 8×5×2 ㎜ size autogenous bone fragment was inserted through the window to compress spinal...
... Feedback on error and correct performance training, constrained induced movement therapy and bilateral arm training [27] Task-oriented training stands for a repetitive training of functional (= ... still not offering training of movement strategies that enable learning of skilled arm -hand performance, as is the purpose of task-oriented training For practical (e.g patient independence for use) ... sensorimotor input during training of upper limb movement Nevertheless, the state -of- the-art robotic upper extremity training instroke patients can play a very important role in alleviating...
... tools for evaluation ofhandfunctionin the said population -0.519* 0.011 Informed consent for publication was obtained from patients or their guardians (in case of minors) during enrollment into ... previous report [17] but this was not evident in our results Sensory deficit was only noted in tetraplegics in the current study Age is an important determinant ofhandfunction Normally, handfunction ... description of upper limb deformity and handfunctionin the present population For practical evaluation ofhandfunctionin cerebral palsy patients, the authors recommend the use of the Melbourne...
... contains a majority of inspiratory axons in its abductor branch (which innervates the posterior cricoarythenoid muscle) [6], it also contains a majority of expiratory axons in its adductor branch, ... unrythmed tracing, without increase during inspiration, 1: rythmed tracing with inspiratory increasing, but poor tracing (neurogen), 2: rythmed tracing with richer activity, 3: rythmed tracing, very ... the abductor branch contains a great majority of inspiratory axons, it can sometimes contain few expiratory axons for the interarytenoid muscle [21] Expiratory activity was poorer in the group...
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... tastes of many individuals in the making of social choices […] Can we find other methods of aggregating individual tastes which imply rational behavior on the part of the community?” In other words, ... autonomy, rationality, and intentional agency nor the ontologies of concordance, harmony, order For critiques of theoretical humanism in the Marxian tradition and in the discipline of economics, see (Althusser, ... those under-performing inefficient agents In this case, the invisible hand materializes in the anthropomorphized handof the selection mechanism.16 15 Throughout the history of neoclassical tradition,...
... non-progressive spinalcord injury, with an American SpinalInjury Association (ASIA) impairment scale classification of C or D indicating motor incomplete lesions In addition, the neurological level ofinjury ... impact ofspinalcordinjuryInSpinalCord Injury: Clinical Outcomes from the Model Systems Edited by: Stover SL, DeLisa JA, Whiteneck GG Aspen: Gaithersburg; 1995 Levi AD, Tator CH, Bunge RP: Clinical ... clinical measure of spasticity.) Subjects' modified Ashworth scale scores varied between and Inspinalcord injured subjects with incomplete motor function loss, the sides of the body are often...
... Garber SL, Marino RJ, Stover SL, Tator CH, Waters RL, Wilberger JE, Young W: International Standards for Neurological and Functional Classification ofSpinalCordInjury American SpinalInjury Association ... Test-retest involved recording the action of the drinking task and then removing the markers The entire procedure was repeated from the beginning fifteen minutes later Data processing The recordings ... to the forearm using Euler angle notation and a sequence of ZXY rotations of the trunk, arm and hand, and ZYX rotations of the forearm In each recording, a complete cycle of the drinking task...
... seedling establishment effects diminish further [10] According to Birkas et al [8], this effect is only felt for a single season or less The major cause of the decline is normally cumulative rainfall: ... calculated according to the volume equation infunctionof the individual circumference and the dominant height [12] G: basal stand area, based on the inventory of individual circumferences Understory ... used the Indicator Species Analysis according to Dufrêne and Legendre [14], as available in the PC-ORD package [48] This analysis was performed to determine indicator species for the categorical...
... and cresyl violet stain, H, H1, H2 and H3: Immunofluorescence staining Scale bars = 50 μm Transplantation of ASCs inspinalcordinjury 281 Fig Immunofluorescence staining of ASC group; A1-A3: ... media and green fluorescence was identified in cytoplasm of cells 48 h after transfection with a fluorescent microscope (Fig 2B) Induction ofspinalcordinjurySpinal cords of the experimental ... Development of a functional scoring system in dogs with acute spinalcord injuries Am J Vet Res 2001, 62, 1624-1628 29 Poncelet L, Michaux C, Balligand M Study ofspinalcord evoked injury potential...
... illness; a history ofstrokeor head trauma in the past; a history of alcohol or drug misuse; a mini mental state examination (MMSE) score of less than 28; a history of receiving electro-convulsive ... Patel NR: A network algorithm for performing Fisher's exact test in rxc contingency tables J Am Stat Ass 1983, 78:427-434 Baddeley A: Working memory: looking back and looking forward Nat Rev Neurosci ... might offer the patient a form of practical social and functional rehabilitation The possibility of finding a job in the unorganized sector as street vendors and manual labourers make it easy for...
... residence as an inclusion criterion (Helsinki or its neighboring cities) for participation in a study concerning work-related factors and individual susceptibility in the etiology ofhand OA Of those ... three major determinants of the pattern of polyarticular involvement being symmetry, clustering by row, and clustering by ray (in descending order of importance) While OA in a specific joint (monoarticular ... of the involvement of the VDR polymorphism in the etiology of symmetrical hand OA In addition, our findings suggest a detrimental effect of low dietary calcium intake on OA The findings remain...
... effects of corticosteroid treatment on endothelial functionin patients with chronic inflammatory diseases Interestingly, administration of corticosteroids improves endothelial functionin patients ... endothelial functionin BD depending on the level of inflammatory burden Whether endothelial function during the remission phase of the inflammatory process may deteriorate with chronic corticosteroid ... development of means to achieve early identification is a great challenge in this area None of the patients or control individuals had a history ofstrokeor coronary heart disease Multiple lines of evidence...
... provide autoradiographs of Bmal1 expression in one or more whole coronal sections of the brain, showing expression in the target structure and no expression outside of this structure in brain regions ... laboratories have failed to confirm their findings using overhead passive infrared motion sensors to measure activity either directed at food hoppers or occurring anywhere within the recording ... be physically handled to be aroused is very likely either sick or profoundly hypothermic (or both) In the original text, the authors not report body weight or food intake data In their Reply...