therapeutic and functional electrical stimulation

... Switzerland 2Department of Health Sciences and Health Policy, University of Lucerne and SPF, Nottwil, Switzerland 3Seminar for Statistics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland ... relationships, and living conditions The WHOQOL and WHOQOL-BREF were specifically developed for cross-cultural use and are currently available in 36 languages Psychometric Geyh et al Health and Quality ... data, the drafting and revision of the manuscript IK contributed to the acquisition and management of the data and revised the manuscript MP contributed to the conception and design of the study,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:21

... Characteristics of hand path movement Figure shows the initial measurements for hand path, speed, curvature and jerk movement in the patients with a SIAS score of 2, 3, and 4, and in the healthy ... (s) Figure Hand paths, including the speed, curvature, and jerk profiles were evaluated in four representative participants Panels A, B, C and D show the respective hand paths The hand path is ... healthy participants Red, blue, and green thick and dotted lines in panels A and B denotes median (thick lines) and quartile (dotted lines) of MedianL from both initial and final measurements in Experiment...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... uniformly, and objectively regulated and measured, and the electroacupuncture produce a higher and more continuous level of stimulation than can be provided manually [1] In general, weak stimulation ... therapy, injections at acupoints, and moxibustion [1] Electrostimulation is used more frequently in the United States than in Europe and China [13] The electrostimulation is applied with a wide ... waveforms, wave patterns and intervals, different frequencies and amplitudes The amplitude is augmented until muscle twitching and pain is observed In one report, electrostimulation deteriorated...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 17:22

... schedule with frequent rest periods) and random ordering of taskrelated exercises improves performance and learning [3,80] A good interchange between loading and adequate rest intervals are necessary ... patient's hand through a handle that is connected to the end-effector of the robot This robot treatment focuses on shoulder and elbow function The MIME system can work in preprogrammed position and ... rotations) and forearm (no pro- or supination) cause a discrepancy between functional relevance of the exercise that is instructed and the actual movement that is performed Patients and therapists...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... Stereognosis Muscle tone Developmental hand assessment B.O test Chop Sticks Manipulation Test Functional hand assessment Functional Hand Grip Test (FHGT) Functional Independence Measure for children ... presented in terms of rank and percentages Our assessment protocol focused on deformity, sensation, spasticity, motor control and hand function The correlation between hand function and the other parameters ... Spastic Hand Evaluation [15], House Functional Classification [3] and Green Functional Classification [9] Sensory Assessment involved evaluation of static twopoint discrimination (2-pd) and stereognosis...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20

... (denervated group) In GIV and GV, Pes during right phrenic nerve stimulation were lower than in group I (p < 0.05) and not different between GI and GIII During left stimulation, the lowest values ... nerve stimulation, shortenings in groups IV and V were statistically lower than in group I (healthy group), and statistically not different between GI and GIII During bilateral phrenic nerve stimulation, ... Group Figure the right 2and left quiet (EMG score) obtained in the different group, duringhemidiaphragm Global electrical activitybreathing and tracheal occlusion for Global electrical activity (EMG...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 16:20

... arm and hand rehabilitation 23 2.4.2 Robots dedicated to wrist and hand rehabilitation 24 2.4.3 Robots dedicated to hand and fingers rehabilitation 25 2.4.4 HandCPM ... pain and other therapeutic reasons However, efficiency of acupuncture for stroke rehabilitation is still controversial • Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES): FES consists in the artificial electrical ... control of the forearm, wrist and fingers and involve a large number of joints Further, performing hand activities also requires the elbow and shoulder to support the weight and CHAPTER INTRODUCTION...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:04

... concentrations of total glutathione and GSSG were calculated from the absorbance change using authentic GSH and Ó FEBS 2002 1572 T Kaneko et al (Eur J Biochem 269) GSSG as a standard and the data are expressed ... deferens, and prostate gland in 13-week-old-adult rats (Fig 1A) The highest activity for GR was found in the epididymis, followed by seminal vesicles, prostate gland, vas deferens, and testes ... intensity of the bands for the protein and the mRNA were faint Effects of inhibitors of cGCS and GR on primary cultured testicular cells To investigate the contribution of de novo synthesis and the recycling...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 17:20

... economics, and complexity theory (see also, Colander, Holt and Rosser, 2004: 496) Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis (2000) identify Ronald Coase, Friedrich von Hayek, Duncan Luce and Howard Riaffa, and ... Cowles Commission and the empiricist pragmatism of the Marshallian applied microeconomics of the Chicago School (Novshek and Sonnenschein, 1987; Hands and Mirowski, 1998; Mirowski and Hands, 1998; ... neoclassical economics (up to the 1970s) and the contemporary For recent surveys, see (Bowles and Gintis, 2000; Colander, 2000; Mirowski, 2002; Colander, Holt and Rosser, 2004; Davis, 2006) mainstream...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 02:05

... collection and analysis, and participated in interpreting and writing the manuscript DC referred the patients and participated in interpreting data, and WZR participated in interpreting data and writing ... plantarflexion and the torque and EMG responses were ensemble-averaged Pseudorandom binary sequence trials To identify overall stiffness properties and to separate the reflex and intrinsic components, ... to follow a command input Subjects were seated and secured in an adjustable chair with the ankle strapped to the footrest and the thigh and trunk strapped to the chair The seat and footrest were...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... movement with respect to the arm, and hand movement with respect 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 ... analysis was made of the clinical and functional variables by calculating the median and interquartile range of the quantitative variables and the frequencies and percentages of the qualitative ... lateral and medial epicondyles proximally and the Z-axis was the line that joined both epicondyles in the lateral direction In the hand, the origin was at the midpoint between radial and ulnar...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... joint angles and footground contact, lower limb surface electromyography, pushbutton control signal, artificial muscle force and elastic band force We recorded bilateral ankle, knee and hip Page ... speed, trial condition and fidelity of the data We calculated the average standard deviation over the stride cycle (reported in Figures and 5) for each average profile and for each condition ... profiles from the artificial muscle and elastic band tension and their respective moment arms The orthoses torque was normalized to subject mass To quantify the magnitude and repeatability of the control...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... design of soil and vegetation treatments in the four studied stands Empty columns are control strips Shaded areas show strips that are absent in some stands Experimental strips and date of treatment ... composition Rotary plough and roller explained each 11% of the floristic variation Clearing saw and disc plough explained each 7% of the variation, soil moisture and asulam 4% Harrow and brush cutter did ... scaled in standard deviation units Eigenvalues of first and second axis were: site 0.087 and 0.052, respectively Species abbreviations are based on the first four letters of genus and species names...

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Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 23:22

... the ASC group (circles) G and H: These showed structural consistency with nerve cell A, B and C: H&E stain, D-G: Luxol fast blue and cresyl violet stain, H, H1, H2 and H3: Immunofluorescence ... USA), CD11c (#MCA1778S; AbD Serotec, USA) and CD34 (#1H6; Becton, Dickinson and Company, USA) The seventh passage of ASCs were trypsinized, centrifuged and resuspended to concentration of about ... after transfection and supernatant was harvested at 48 and 72 h after transfection Viral supernatant was filtered using 0.4 μm pore filter (Invitrogen, USA) Fig Adipogenic and osteogenic differentiation...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 23:22

... social and functional rehabilitation The possibility of finding a job in the unorganized sector as street vendors and manual labourers make it easy for people to earn a living and remain functional ... investigator (RK) and confirmed by senior psychiatrists (AN and RRP) The diagnosis of schizophrenia was made at clinical interview and augmented by discussion with relatives and a review of clinical ... patients [30] Symptomatology and functional outcome Previous studies performed in the Western population have found an association between negative symptoms and a poor functional outcome Brier et...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:20

... elderly Dutch men and women It can be expected that the same polymorphisms could be important for both knee OA and hand OA, although no association between the VDR genotypes and hand OA was found ... metabolism, OA, the immune response, and cancer [12] The VDR gene acts as an important regulator of calcium metabolism and bone cell function [13], and it was the first candidate gene to be studied in ... the risk of hand OA in Finnish middleaged women In addition, we evaluated whether the calcium intake modifies the relationship between the VDR gene polymorphisms and hand OA Materials and methods...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:20

... differences were found between active and inactive BD or between corticosteroid receiving and nonreceiving patients, and no interaction between corticosteroids and BD disease was identified (data ... (Wilkoxon test) was used to compare changes in FMD and NMD, before and after days on corticosteroid treatment Values are expressed as mean ± standard error of the mean P < 0.05 was deemed to indicate ... corticosteroid treatment, and their respective control subgroups Numbers of patients and significant differences between subgroups (t-test) are shown Values are expressed as mean ± standard error Furthermore,...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21