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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Hemiplegia"”.
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Assessment of Proprioceptive Acuity in Patients with Stroke with Left Hemiplegia Compared to Healthy Controls
… Eight patients with chronic stroke with left hemiplegia and eight healthy age- and gender-matched controls participated. Wrist position sense was assessed under two conditions: 1) an ipsilateral wrist joint position matching task requiring active movement to reproduce a reference position, and …
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An investigation into the use of intensive therapy, with and without constraint-induced movement therapy, in South African children with hemiplegia
… in the hand function of children with hemiplegia. It also aimed to determine if group CIMT was more effective than group physiotherapy based on the Neurodevelopmental (NDT) approach. The feasibility of CIMT in the South African context was also investigated Sixty-five children with …
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Redesign of the double hand rim modification of the "Whirlwind" Wheelchair for manufacture in developing nations
… one designed for use by persons with hemiplegia. Ralf Hotchkiss's "Whirlwind" Wheelchair is currently manufactured with local materials in many developing nations. It provides both an affordable source of quality wheelchairs for the populace as well as a source of employment. J.A. van …
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Parameters related to the equinus ankle in ambulatory children with cerebral palsy : an investigation of the differences between children with the diplegic and hemiplegic subtypes
… and an equinovalgus, while children with hemiplegia tend to have genu recurvatum (over extended knees), ankle equinovarus and a shorter affected limb (AL) than the unaffected limb (UL). No study has specifically compared the impairments related to the equinus ankle between the subtypes of …
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Lausnamiðuð styrktarþjálfun einstaklinga með Cerebral Palsy (heilalömun)
… fengnir til aðstoðar, annar með helftarlömun (hemiplegia) og hinn fjórlömun (quadriplegia). Áherslan var lögð á að styrkja vöðvahópa í hnjám, mjöðmum, mið- og efribúk, styrktaræfingarnar voru valdar út frá því. Þær styrktaræfingar sem urðu fyrir valinu voru hnébeygja, mjaðmarétta, upphífingar, …
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Study of the Functional Role of ATP1A3A in the Vertebrate Nervous System
… dystonia-parkinsonism and alternating hemiplegia of childhood in humans and has also been shown to cause motor deficits, neuronal excitability, and perinatal death in various animal models. Our lab has generated a mutant in zebrafish (Danio rerio) containing a gene trap that prematurely …
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Smart shoe gait analysis and diagnosis: designing and prototyping of hardware and software
… and physical therapy for issues like Hemiplegia and Diplegia. It also provides us with the information to detect various improper gaits such as Parkinson's disease, Hemiplegic and diplegic gaits. Though there are many wearable and non-wearable methods to detect the improper gate …
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The effect of the Nintendo Wii Fit on the balance control and gross motor function of children with spastic hemiplegic cerebral palsy
… response to balance perturbations. Children with hemiplegia have also been shown to develop direction-specific postural control at a slower pace than typically developing children. Apart from their postural muscle coordination problems, these children have difficulties with sensory integration …
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Post laryngoplasty ultrasonography of the horse larynx
Laryngoplasty is commonly used to treat laryngeal hemiplegia in Thoroughbred racehorses and success and evaluation thereof has traditionally been determined using endoscopy with little emphasis on ultrasonography. Laryngeal ultrasonography can easily be performed in the standing unsedated horse and …
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Structural Design of a 6-DoF Hip Exoskeleton using Linear Series Elastic Actuators
… yaw, and pitch. Currently, the sufferers of hemiplegia and paraplegia can be addressed by using a wheelchair or operating an exoskeleton with aids for balancing. The motivation of the exoskeleton project was to allow paraplegic patients to walk without using aids such as a walker or crutches. …
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The re-education of upper limb movement post stroke using iterative learning control mediated by electrical stimulation
… the treatment of stroke patients with upper limb hemiplegia.
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The Use of Operant Conditioning in Stroke Patients to Facilitate Relearning Dressing Skills
… from 44 to 77 years. Each of them had a residual hemiplegia or hemiparesis resulting from a stroke. None was capable of dressing him- self prior to the study. Four or five 15-30 minute sessions were spent with the participants over time periods verying from seven to ten days. Each one could follow …
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Cognitive, social and emotional processes in unawareness of illness following stroke
… disorder of self-awareness, anosognosia for hemiplegia (AHP): unawareness of motor deficits contralateral to a brain lesion. Based on insights gained from both clinical and experimental research on anosognosia, it is argued that purely sensorimotor accounts do not explain several features of …
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The effects of stroke on the skeleton
… mechanisms by which hip bone loss occurs in hemiplegia and to test the efficacy of a novel pharmaceutical strategy for preserving bone in stroke patients. Patients who were admitted acutely with a first-ever stroke and who remained unable to walk one week later were studied prospectively for …
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Seroprevalence of anti-toxoplasma IgG antibody in HIV patients with neurological manifestations
… cranial nerve deficits, adult onset seizures and hemiplegia. The aim of the study was to determine seroprevalence of anti-toxoplasma IgG Ab in HIV/AIDS patient with neurological manifestations, and to establish a rational means for the clinician facing decision making concerning empiric …
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Efficacy of computer-based voice output communicaton intervention in persons with chronic severe aphasia
… provide easy access for participants with right hemiplegia, and secondarily to simulate access techniques used in most of the commercially available dedicated communication devices (e.g., Dynavox, Vanguard, etc.). A customized graphic symbol communication program was developed for each …
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