Aidan Cosgrove, I. S. Corry, H. Kerr Graham
SUMMARY The role of intramuscular botulinum toxin A in the treatment of 26 children with cerebral palsy was evaluated. The indication for injection was the presence of a dynamic contracture of lower‐limb muscles interfering with positioning or walking. Spastic target muscles were identified by clini...
Ricardo Vigatto, Neusa Maria Costa Alexandre, Heleno Rodrigues Corrêa Filho
In Brief Study Design. Translation, revision, back-translation, and 3-way validity were performed. Objective. The objective of this study was to translate a version of the Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) into Brazilian Portuguese and evaluate its reliability. Summary of Background Data. Reports in t...
Sarah J. Wallace, Linda Worrall, Tanya Rose, Guylaine Le Dorze et al.
PURPOSE: To identify important treatment outcomes from the perspective of people with aphasia and their families using the ICF as a frame of reference. METHODS: The nominal group technique was used with people with aphasia and their family members in seven countries to identify and rank important tr...
Nilda Cosco, Robin C. Moore, Mohammed Zakiul Islam
UNLABELLED: The preschool that children attend has been shown to be a significant but variable predictor of physical activity of 3- to 5-yr-olds, whereas the time outdoors has been found to be a strong correlate of physical activity. Researchers speculate that variations in preschool physical activi...
Yasushi Makihara, Hidetoshi Mannami, Akira Tsuji, Ismail Hossain et al.
This paper describes a large-scale gait database comprising the Treadmill Dataset. The dataset focuses on variations in walking conditions and includes 200 subjects with 25 views, 34 subjects with 9 speed variations from 2km/h to 10km/h with a 1km/h interval, and 68 subjects with at most 32 clothes ...
Jean‐Marc Mac‐Thiong, Ensor E. Transfeldt, Amir A. Mehbod, Joseph H. Perra et al.
STUDY DESIGN: This study prospectively evaluated the health related quality of life (HRQOL) of 73 adults presenting with scoliosis at a single institution, as related to their spinal (C7 plumbline) and global (gravity line) balance. OBJECTIVE: To assess the influence of sagittal and coronal balance ...
Faruque Parvez, Gail A. Wasserman, Pam Factor‐Litvak, Xinhua Liu et al.
BACKGROUND: Several reports indicate that drinking water arsenic (WAs) and manganese (WMn) are associated with children's intellectual function. Very little is known, however, about possible associations with other neurologic outcomes such as motor function. METHODS: We investigated the associations...
Tahia Tazin, Md Nur Alam, Nahian Nakiba Dola, Mohammad Sajibul Bari et al.
Stroke is a medical disorder in which the blood arteries in the brain are ruptured, causing damage to the brain. When the supply of blood and other nutrients to the brain is interrupted, symptoms might develop. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), stroke is the greatest cause of death a...
Michael Lawton, Yoav Ben‐Shlomo, Margaret May, Fahd Baig et al.
Objectives To use a data-driven approach to determine the existence and natural history of subtypes of Parkinson’s disease (PD) using two large independent cohorts of patients newly diagnosed with this condition. Methods 1601 and 944 patients with idiopathic PD, from Tracking Parkinson’s and Discove...
Trudy Wijnhoven, Mercedes de Onís, Adelheid W. Onyango, Tracey Wang et al.
The World Health Organization (WHO) Multicentre Growth Reference (MGRS) data management protocol was designed to create and manage a large data bank of information collected from multiple sites over a period of several years. Data collection and processing instruments were prepared centrally and use...
Britt Elin Øiestad, Carsten Bogh Juhl, Adam G Culvenor, Bjørnar Berg et al.
OBJECTIVE: To update a systematic review on the association between knee extensor muscle weakness and the risk of incident knee osteoarthritis in women and men. DESIGN: Systematic review and meta-analysis. DATA SOURCES: Systematic searches in PubMed, EMBASE, SPORTDiscus, CINAHL, AMED and CENTRAL in ...
Tetsuo Ikai, Takeshi Kamikubo, Itaru Takehara, Masanori NISHI et al.
OBJECTIVE: Decreased postural stability is a common problem associated with hemiparesis secondary to stroke. The purpose of this study was to evaluate dynamic postural control in patients with hemiparesis and in normal subjects matched for age. DESIGN: Quantitative posturography (EquiTest System) wa...
Mohamed Derouich, Abdesslam Boutayeb
Regular physical activity is indicated either to prevent and delay the onset of non-insulin-dependent diabetes or to assure a good control of diabetes by increasing insulin sensitivity and ameliorating the metabolism of glucose disappearance. Many studies and experiments have dealt with this subject...
Shannon M. Smith, Robert H. Dworkin, Dennis C. Turk, Ralf Baron et al.
Valid and reliable biomarkers can play an important role in clinical trials as indicators of biological or pathogenic processes or as a signal of treatment response. Currently, there are no biomarkers for pain qualified by the US Food and Drug Administration or the European Medicines Agency for use ...
Michael Sullivan, William D. Stanish, Maureen E. Sullivan, Dean A. Tripp
The psychological predictors of pain and disability were examined in a sample of people who sustained whiplash injuries during rear-end motor vehicle accidents. Sixty-five patients referred to a specialty pain clinic with a diagnosis of whiplash injury completed measures of depression, anxiety, cata...