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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Upper limb impairment"”.
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Developing a Toolkit for Disability Inclusion in Sportswear Design Practice: Focusing on Consumers with an Upper Limb Impairment or Difference
… can better understand consumers with an upper limb impairment or difference to create adaptive or inclusive sportswear. Recently, an increase of inclusive and adaptive apparel has appeared on the market, but many disabled consumers remain underserved. Although the Paralympics have …
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Parkinson's Patients' Upper and Lower Limb Motor Impairments Differentially Influence Action Verb Processing
… with Parkinson’s disease (PD) who have greater upper versus greater lower limb impairments show different patterns of performance when processing action verbs. Patients and matched controls made action decisions on upper-limb (reach), lower-limb (kick), and psych verbs (think). The most …
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Resting State Functional Magnetic Resonance and Diffusion Tensor Imaging of Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy Patients Treated with Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy: Predictors and Clinically Correlated Evidence of Neuroplasticity
… cerebral palsy is characterized by unilateral upper limb impairment and patients often compensate by performing most tasks with their unaffected arm. Constraint-induced movement therapy (CIMT) directly combats this learned non-use by casting the unaffected arm and forcing the patient to …
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Exercise-Based Upper Limb Rehabilitation In Rheumatoid Arthritis
… independence, quality of life, and longevity. Upper limb impairment causes considerable disability, contributes to work incapacity, and has substantial monetary and non-monetary, personal and societal consequences.<br/><br/>Objectives: The studies in this thesis focus on the development and …
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Neurophysiological effects of arm weight support: Implications for stroke rehabilitation
… dosage and improve movement quality during upper limb stroke rehabilitation. However, the underlying neurophysiological effects of weight support are not well understood. The aim of this thesis was to investigate the neurophysiological effects of arm weight support in healthy adults and …
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Enhancing Stroke Rehabilitation Through Structured Volunteer-Delivered Arts-Based Activity: a Pilot Study
Background Upper Limb (UL) motor impairment affects 50-80% of stroke survivors acutely, with up to 50% reporting continued disability months or years post-rehabilitation. Effective recovery relies on intensive, repetitive, and meaningful task-oriented practice; however, studies report people with …