... preserved Next, individualswith stroke walking on ground level with BWS were not compared to a control group such as individualswith stroke walking either with BWS on a treadmill or with no BWS ... Therefore, our hypothesis that six weeks of gait training with BWS during overground walking would improve walking performance of individualswith chronic stroke was partially confirmed with ... treadmill with BWS combined with overground without BWS [41] Our results suggest that training with BWS during overground walking effectively increases walking speed of individualswith chronic...
... Routing forindividualswith multiple special needs Routing forindividualswith multiple special needs: users with cognitive impairments, wheelchair users, and users with low vision Chang et ... wayfinding system for participants with cognitive impairments; (2) use of RFID technology to support wayfinding without a shadow team; and (3) adaptation of a simplified task load index (TLX) for subjective ... wayfinding research forindividualswith cognitive impairments Then, prototype design is presented Implementations and results are shown with follow-up discussions The paper concludes with some final...
... Participants Eight able-bodied participants and two individualswith quadriplegia (one with a C1-C2 incomplete spinal cord injury and the other with severe spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy) participated ... groups that may benefit from this access pathway are people with high level spinal cord injuries resulting in quadriplegia and individualswith spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy or general hypotonia ... processed offline in MATLAB & Simulink (version R2007b) Participants were comfortably seated within a laboratory environment Those with disability remained in their wheelchairs The thermal camera was...
... to participate and for data being used for the purposes of this service evaluation Ethical approval was not required for this service evaluation Practitioners were responsible for recruiting patients ... patients with SMI and what a positive difference the WSP had made to their practice “ it has flagged up a massive deficit within our clients with some having not had physical interventions for a ... patients with SMI is important Although lifestyle risk factors for cardiovascular disease were common in the sample, rates are lower than might be anticipated in a population of patients with SMI For...
... walking at selfselected and comfortable speeds, with and without the use of BWS, forindividualswith chronic stroke We suggest that individualswith stroke walking with BWS on ground level would ... rehabilitation program forindividualswith stroke [1-3] Among the different strategies of gait training for these individuals, the use of treadmill with partial body weight support (BWS) has been ... a possible alternative strategy for gait training Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate individualswith chronic stroke, walking overground with BWS More specifically, we analyzed...
... unable to drive, individualswith this visual acuity rarely suffer significant reductions in their ability to perform other functions and are, therefore, unlikely to be candidates for vision rehabilitation ... blindness” for the purposes of classifying individualswith low vision and blindness because the former terms more accurately reflect the fact that some residual vision remains in patients with these ... eligibility for vision rehabilitations services beyond the ICD-9-CM definitions for low vision and blindness (ICD-9-CM codes beginning with the prefix 3695) Medicare has suggested that individuals with...
... there are many people you can turn to at this time For more about coping with your feelings, see the NCI brochure, Taking Time: Supportfor People With Cancer See page 34 on how to order or download ... You can get information about cancer from many sources Some are listed here You may also want to check for more information from support groups in your community Federal Agencies ■■ For more resources: ... (1-800-633-4227) Online: http://www.medicare.gov (for Medicare information) or http://www.cms.hhs.gov (for other information) ■■ National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)...
... adversely affect HRQoL among individualswith type diabetes mellitus [8] Yet, there is little information on HRQoL among individuals who not have diabetes but are at risk for diabetes While several ... significantly associated with HRQoL after adjusting for sociodemographic factors (Table 3) Compared with type diabetes respondents, the low-risk respondents (9.02 for VAS score and 0.049 for index score; ... (3.18 for VAS score and 0.009 for index score; p = 0.008) reported higher EQ-5D scores The model F statistic was 94.0 for VAS score and 83.6 for index score, and the model r-square was 0.16 for...
... walking speed for someone with post-stroke hemiplegic gait might be facilitated during the BWS condition For instance, since an individual with hemiplegia due to stroke injury walks with a slow ... body weight supportfor these two populations We hypothesized that self selected walking speed for nonimpaired subjects would show a decreasing trend with increasing levels body weight support In ... frequency with which the maximum velocity for each subject occurred at each body weight support level for each subject group Results Nonimpaired subjects When nonimpaired subjects walked 10 m without...
... commonly associated with epilepsy Depression is considered to be the most frequent psychiatric disorder in patients with epilepsy and it is reported that children with epilepsy examined with the Child ... monotherapy with drugs in low doses, without clinical sideeffects Inclusion criteria for patients and controls consisted of: a) age of 9-13 years old b) normal intellectual potential (assessed with ... for x and y, respectively [15] To compute the MS-COH with nonparametric methods, we use the Welch's periodogram smoother, with a non-overlapping Hamming window of 1024 samples length In the formula...
... considerable variation in PCP preferences for interacting with a collaborative support team Although most PCPs indicate a desire forsupport team members to proceed with assess- patient but instead focuses ... their preferences for communicating and interacting with the collaborative support team (Appendix A) Response options for preferred modes of communication were not exclusive Information on PCP ... significant correlations were found within the survey item responses Preference for cosigning all intervention team notes was positively associated with preference for telephone or pager communication...
... 27], with the highest grade of lesion recorded for each region In case of disagreement, a consensus reading was performed with a musculoskeletal radiologist with 22 years of experience (T.M.L.) For ... reviewed and approved the protocol and consent forms for the Osteoarthritis Initiative study All OAI study participants sign informed consent forms for participation in the study Knee radiographs ... perform the analysis JCG developed the software for T2 mapping quantification and texture analysis LN performed WORMS grading and cartilage segmentations WV performed WORMS grading HA performed...
... Figure shows, for PROWESS [2,11] and ADDRESS [5,12], the effect of therapy on patients grouped by risk of death These subgroup data are not published for the phase II adult trial or for the paediatric ... The Cochrane Collaboration, Oxford, UK) and a conservative random-effects model Pooled estimates confirm no evidence of benefit for DrotAA in low-risk patients For high-APACHE II patients, the ... not statistically significant For high-risk patients defined by multiple organ failure, the two trials are more consistent (p = 0.23 for heterogeneity, I2 = 32%), with the pooled results suggesting...
... strong need for a programme to support parents and carers of young people who have engaged in DSH The SPACE (Supporting Parents and Carers) programme was designed as a support programme for parents ... need forsupport Parents felt that there was a lack of available support and that the opportunity to avail of peer support would be extremely beneficial Another theme which emerged was information ... discussion and exercises the parents are provided with information regarding DSH, support, and the opportunity for communication skills development The topics for each session are drawn from themes which...
... 2.1 for approval documents) Written consent was obtained from all participants before testing (see Appendix 2.2 for information sheet and consent form) Procedures Construction of Preparatory Information ... reliability was tested within a sample of adults without brain injury for the written and oral form The test-retest correlation was found to be 80 for the written SDMT and 76 for the oral SDMT The ... account for changes in attention, and lengthening interaction to provide supportfor slowed processing speed Implications for research and practice The present review presents an initial framework with...
... area of social support have converged on five types of support- intended communication behaviors: informational support, tangible aid, emotional support, network support, and esteem support (Cutrona ... posted to online support groups in order to investigate the nature of social support within online support groups For example, Mo and Coulson (2008) examined social support exchanged within an online ... Level Informational support Tangible support First replying messages (N=86) Social support measurement Social support behavior code Esteem support Network support Emotional support Explanations...
... cure forfood allergy; therefore consumers withfood allergy rely on accurate and detailed information on food labels in order to prevent an adverse reaction Manufacturers cannot guarantee that food ... be more useful forfood allergic consumers This involved a literature review and the development of protocol for a study to inform risk assessments for precautionary labelling for peanut allergic ... within Australia Thanks is also due to Nadine Bertalli for being my savour when it came to Stata, Endnote and submitting papers Thank you for all your help and for not getting upset with me for...
... The raw mean scores for all scales were then transformed on a 0-100 continuum, with higher scores indicating less negative impact or improved HRQL Thus, increasing AIM-C scores for these scales ... compared with those that were receiving Concerta (10.5) or Ritalin LA (8.7), and improvement for girls (16.3) was nearly double the improvement noted for boys Page of 12 (page number not for citation ... Satisfied with frequency of daily dosing Satisfied with ease of use Child rarely missing a dose Satisfied with child's behavior Improvement in child's social interactions Satisfied with how child...
... particular forms of renewable energy in line with national and regional policies In particular, fifteen Member States are using investment support schemes in combination with other support schemes, ... 10.9€c/kWh for large capacity biomass systems and 19€c/kWh for small capacity biomass systems, whereas for hydro systems, the FiT is 7.8€c/kWh for large capacity hydro systems and 12.7€c/kWh for small ... biomass for producing electricity, the FiT is 11.9€c/kWh for any capacity size of biomass system, whereas for hydro systems, the FiT is 6.1€c/kWh for large capacity hydro systems and 15€c/kWh for...