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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Hand function"”.
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The contribution of reorganised motor pathways to recovery of arm and hand function after stroke
… limb with severe consequences for patients' hand function. Although some recover they are often slow and clumsy when using the affected hand. The mechanism underlying recovery is an unsettled question. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) was used to determine the changes in the …
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The effect of mindfulness movement therapy on arm and hand function in people with and without stroke
… meditation may have potential to improve arm and hand function in stroke patients. However, there is no mindfulness programme specifically concerned with motor performance. Therefore, this thesis proposed a new protocol of a mindfulness movement therapy programme (MMTP) for improving arm and hand …
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The Impact of Type 2 Diabetes and Associated Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy on Grip Force Control and Hand Function
… cumulative evidence that fine motor skills and hand function are deficient in individuals with type 2 diabetes (T2D) and associated diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN). This might impact their ability to perform essential tasks such as buttoning a shirt, picking up pills, and monitoring blood …
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A 12 month follow up of the re-education of arm and hand function following stroke (Reach) randomised controlled trial : a mixed methods study
Functional electrical stimulation (FES) has shown promise as a treatment for upper limb rehabilitation following stroke, although current devices are limited in functionality. To address this a new movement-triggered FES device was developed and trialled in people with chronic stroke in the REAcH …
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Mana Motuhake Ringa: The non-invasive neural interface based artificial hand
… Although there has been many attempts to restore hand function through neural prosthetics there is little to no credible solutions to regain it. This thesis presents methods to restore hand function based on the human grasping system and addresses key challenges in the practical application of …
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Effect of game activities on manual dexterity in older adults
… and control groups when considering right hand function, both hands function, combined hand function, and assembly function tasks. However, the control group demonstrated significantly greater left hand function at pre- and post-test. It was concluded that a six-week intervention of game …
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Monitoring Hand Use and Hand Role of Stroke Survivors at Home Using Egocentric Video
Capturing hand function performance at home is essential to measuring the ultimate impact of novel interventions after stroke. Wearable technologies have been used to capture upper limb use ratios outside of clinical environments, however, wrist-worn devices measure arm use rather than hand use, …
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Object Manipulation During Development
… explore and manipulate objects with their hands and fingers, becoming more skillful with practice and with age. The development of manual dexterity is important for several critical motor milestones in childhood and has a huge impact on self-care and learning tasks. Moreover, manual …
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Improvement of hand and finger function in systemic sclerosis: game-based intervention informed by a 3D assessment of hand mobility
… thickness and stiffness of the skin and reduced hand function. The hands are a critical contributor to the ability to perform activities of daily living (ADL), which is limited in patients with SSc. Therefore hand function is commonly assessed in clinics using patient-reported outcome measures …
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The assessment of the rheumatoid hand : "the assessment of the function of the hand undergoing corrective surgery for rheumatoid disease using specially designed biomechanical instruments and the Colour Television Image Analyser"
Present methods of assessing the function of the hand are reviewed and found to be inadequate. Two new concepts are introduced; the concept of assessing the function of the hand at the digital level, and the concept that hand function and bone density are closely related in both the hypodynamic …
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The Rat as a Translational Model of Neurotrauma: Primary Somatosensory Input and Imaging Biomarker Validation Following Spinal Cord and Peripheral Nerve Injuries
… SCI patients is to use nerve grafts to restore function to spinal levels below the site of lesion. Questions remain about the suitability of rodent models for studies focused on higher order, complex, spinal tracts. Furthermore, questions remain on the best methods to track recovery following …
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Plasticity of the cortical representation of finger extensors induced by paired associative stimulation
… to study cortical excitability and features of hand movement. This work focuses on a cohesive approach to answer central questions about: the ideal mechanism to facilitate cortical plasticity via PAS, the interaction between the behavior performed and type of stimulation delivered to the …
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A framework for estimating difficulty and exclusion from tasks of everyday living
… tasks. This research involved a physical hand-based task demand-capability framework which is important because the hands are often a central feature for performing a broad range of everyday tasks. An initial study involved developing a Hand Action Framework (HAF) to categorize hand …
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Measurement of finger coordination during a motor learning task
… of this study is to observe the changes in whole hand grasp strategy, in healthy subjects, over time in a series of isometric force control learning tasks. During a series of trials with real-time visual feedback of the five finger forces, subjects adapted their grasp strategy in order to reach …
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Using wavelet and template analysis to classify hand postures in unsupervised daily activities
… do in daily life, knowing the quality of hand function is essential to plan more effective rehabilitation therapies and treatments for upper limb movement disorders. The first part of the project was Jebsen-Taylor study where healthy individuals and individuals with brain injury performed …
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Enhancement of non-motorized three degree of freedom assessment tool for stroke patients
… be used to replace iRest in order to assess the hand function of stroke patients.
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Corporate entrepreneurship and new business development : analysis of organizational frameworks, systematic processes and entrepreneurial attributes in established organizations
… to create a new business. Employees on the other hand function within the boundaries of the company. Employees that behave entrepreneurially collectively create the phenomenon of corporate entrepreneurship. In this thesis, we study the most common and overarching traits, characteristics and …
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Neurorehabilitation of the hand using the cybergrasp[TM] and mirror image
… from hemiparesis. Through neuroimaging and functional testing, neurological improvement has been demonstrated in those that engage in mirror therapy. Bilateral training, or simultaneous movement of both sides of the body, has also been studied as a treatment method to improve function after …
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