robotic devices for overground gait and balance training

... vestibular nucleus and midline cerebellum contribute to balance control in animals Human patients with damage to these structures have impaired balance with standing and walking Standing balance depends ... of bipedal walking are complex, and the performance is easily compromised by injury at any level Command and control centers in the brainstem, cerebellum, and forebrain modify the action of spinal ... midbrain, and subthalamic region Locomotor synergies are executed through the reticular formation and descending pathways in the ventromedial spinal cord Cerebral control provides a goal and purpose for...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 13:20

... dramatic impact on gait and balance Cerebellar gait ataxia is characterized by a wide base of support, lateral instability of the trunk, erratic foot placement, and decompensation of balance when attempting ... odd, stereotypic gait disorders seen in chronic psychiatric patients Frontal Gait Disorder Frontal gait disorder, sometimes known as "gait apraxia," is common in the elderly and has a variety ... attempting to walk tandem Difficulty maintaining balance when turning is often an early feature Patients are unable to walk tandem heel to toe, and display truncal sway in narrow-based or tandem stance...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 13:20

... urgency and incontinence, particularly in patients with cervical spine disease or hydrocephalus It is always important to review the use of alcohol and medications that affect gait and balance Information ... equilibrium Disorders of balance present with difficulty maintaining posture standing and walking and with a subjective sense of disequilibrium, a form of dizziness The cerebellum and vestibular system ... studies may be informative in patients with an undiagnosed disorder of gait MRI is sensitive for cerebral lesions of vascular or demyelinating disease and is a good screening test for occult hydrocephalus...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 13:20

... when walking, and have difficulty maintaining their balance after a perturbation These patients are often unable to get up after a fall and may be on the floor for an hour or more before help arrives ... the classification of gait disorders, for many of the same reasons Postural control systems are widely distributed, and a number of disease-related abnormalities occur Unlike gait problems that ... evaluation and treatment (Chaps 21 and 363) Table 24-3 Risk Factors for Falls, a Meta-Analysis: Summary of Sixteen Controlled Studies Risk Factor Mean RR (OR) Range Weakness 4.9 1.9–10.3 Balance...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 13:20

... to reduced risk of falls and injury The goal of sensory balance training is to improve balance stability Measurable gains can be achieved in a few weeks of training, and benefits can be maintained ... including improved lighting and the installation of grab bars and nonslip surfaces Rehabilitation interventions attempt to improve muscle strength and balance stability and to make the patient more ... can result in a forward fall Gait freezing can also occur as the patient attempts to turn and change direction Similarly, the patient with Parkinson's disease and festinating gait may find his...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 13:20

... by stiffness in the legs, an imbalance of muscle tone, and a tendency to circumduct and scuff the feet The disorder reflects compromise of corticospinal command and overactivity of spinal reflexes ... Gait The term cautious gait is used to describe the patient who walks with an abbreviated stride and lowered center of mass, as if walking on a slippery surface This disorder is both common and ... higher level gait disturbance Physical therapy often improves walking to the degree that follow-up observation may reveal a more specific underlying disorder Stiff-Legged Gait Spastic gait is characterized...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 13:20

... exercise program and tasks performed Patients commented that they felt comfortable during the home sessions and that they could foresee a need for such training in the future This training program ... sitting and in standing (improving upper limb and shoulder girdle range of motion and endurance while maintaining the predefined positions), (2) transfers (improving sit-to-stand and stand-to-sit ... adjusting and challenging the patient The rational for this training program was based on motor learning paradigms aimed at providing demanding tasks for the patient and allowing knowledge of performance...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... called in to present, and the other groups are ready to watch theirs for the second time Meanwhile the first group to finish will now join wathing the speeches of the second group, and the audience ... increases The fourth and final stage: When everybody is back into the big class group, students are then ready to ask questions, by being encouraged to so or being assigned beforehand, about things ... things they did not fully understand in the other groups video segments and which they find interesting What are the advantages of this technique? First, materials for imprompu speaking are chosen...

Ngày tải lên: 06/09/2013, 10:10

... relate to education, training, and economic growth; Identifies skill gaps and skill standards for targeted occupations; Customizes training for new workers and addresses the training needs of incumbent ... apprenticeship training, adult education, job readiness and dislocated worker training, and other government-subsidized training These include both formal and informal employer-provided training as ... creating content and outcome standards for job training and K-12 education in addition to assessment and certification processes for all major industries As a result, it sent confusing and conflicting...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 03:20

... International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Law and Order Trust Fund–Afghanistan Memorandum of Agreement Memorandum of Understanding North Atlantic Treaty Organization Training Mission– Afghanistan ... 7, 2011 MEMORANDUM FOR DISTRIBUTION SUBJECT: DoD and DOS Need Better Procedures to Monitor and Expend DoD Funds for the Afghan National Police Training Program (Report No D-2011-080 and AUD/CG-11-30) ... evaluate DoD and DOS efforts to transfer contract administration for the ANP training program from DOS to DoD Specifically, we planned to assess the cost, performance measures, and planning efforts...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 04:20

... Table shows queries and mutual information values for Example The highest values are 12.2 for high attachment (mechanism) and for low attachment (System) The algorithm therefore selects high attachment ... the case for PP attachment Due to the good performance of Collins’ parser for even small training sets, the combination is only superior for the two smallest training sets (significant for the ... system performs better than either component by itself However, for PP attachment this only holds for small training set sizes For large training sets, we could only show an improvement for RC attachment...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 12:20

... orthotics, and supplies (DMEPOS) Under Medicare Part B, physicians and suppliers submit both assigned and non-assigned claims for these services and items For assigned claims, physicians and suppliers ... amount for the standard item less 20 percent co-insurance and any outstanding deductible, and the beneficiary would pay the difference between the supplier’s charge for the upgraded item and 80 ... on the options and consequences of assigned and non-assigned claims and purchasing medical equipment and supplies from participating and non-participating suppliers We suggest, for example, that...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 09:20

... interval training and LSD.We perform above a comfortable pace, but not redline the system.Think middle-distance runners Peaking Threshold Training is a combination of interval and threshold training. We ... chest to the floor for a count of and return to the top of the exercise for a count of Push-ups are, therefore, a 2-count exercise 4-count, fore -and- aft jumping jacks From a standing position jump ... 45 Warm-up Fore and aft bends ● Stand upright with hands on hips ● Leaving the knees locked, bend forward at the waist deeply ● Reverse this motion and arch backward as far as comfortable ● That...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... 10 folds: we used the rst one for testing, and the rest for training In all cases, we hold out 5% of our training data to determine when to stop perceptron or MIRA training We ignored one-to-one ... account for all three, but it adheres Algorithm Online discriminative training ÔĂâĂăĐƯƠ ! 1: ÔĂâĂăĐƯƠ 2: 3: ÊĂĐĂ" ÔÊƯƠ #âÊÔ" 4: 5: 6: 7: ÔÊĂÂÂĂ 8: =0 for K iterations over training set for ... each module is trained independently, and the training methods are not aware of the tasks performed later in the pipeline For example, optimal parameters for a phoneme prediction module may vary...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 01:20

... Ultrasound training for non-radiologists Clin Radiol 1995 Sep;50(9):589-92 Watts RW, et al Training, skills and approach to high-risk obstetrics in rural GP obstetricians Australian & New Zealand Journal ... Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the Council on Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics Recommended core educational guidelines for ... colposcopy and treatment modalities in family practice programs Fam Med 1995 May;27(5):310-3 Caudle MR, et al Advanced obstetrical training for family physicians: the future hope for rural obstetrical...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 11:20

... and candidate length If E and E are the reference and the candidate translations respectively, this linear function is given by: Figure 2: Transformation of a hypergraph into a factor graph and ... word tokens mined from the web and other published sources The development and test sets for this task are randomly selected sentences from the web, and contain 5000 and 1000 sentences respectively ... zhen-hier and zhen-samt systems respectively For the multi-language case, we train phrase-based systems and perform lattice MBR for all language pairs We use a scaling factor of 0.7 for all pairs...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 16:21

... annotated with syntactic information We use the standard divisions: Sections through 21 are used for training, section 24 for held-out development, and section 23 for final testing 3.3 North American ... (WSJ) and unlabeled (NANC) out-of-domain data and labeled in-domain data (B ROWN) Unfortunately, lacking a corresponding corpus to NANC for B ROWN, we cannot perform the opposite scenario and adapt ... data Lease and Charniak (2005) use the Charniak parser for biomedical data and find that the use of out-of-domain trees and in-domain vocabulary information can considerably improve performance...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 01:20

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Ngày tải lên: 24/04/2014, 13:16

... Outline I Device specifics and enzyme function II Biocompatability and system integration III Detection of analyte and possible drug delivery systems What makes a good ... i fi /4018B1 01 ht Current Research FILT Lung and Chest Diagnostic Company FILT • Biosensors for measurement of Lactate, Glucose, pH • Biosensor for measurement of Hydrogen Peroxide in low levels ... Highly Variable and Reactive Biggest Problem: Biological Reactions Covers Sensors and Electrodes Sugars can't reach enzymes Reaction becomes oxygen limited Fragments by Microstress and Endocytosis...

Ngày tải lên: 13/05/2014, 14:00

... health training programme and its integration into the public health infrastructure allowed the new resources to strengthen and expand the system for a more rapid and widespread effect Reinforcing ... materials in their field assignments for teaching in provincial and district level courses and in the community, and to provide reference material for provincial and district projects on various ... not for citation purposes) Human Resources for Health 2009, 7:69 Director, ARV Treatment Programme; TB Manager, AIDS and TB Unit; Workplace Officer, AIDS and TB Unit; Training Officer, AIDS and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20