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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"mobility impairment"”.
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The effect of mobility impairment in cortical and trabecular structure
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Individual and Situational Factors Associated With Social Barriers for Persons With Mobility Impairment
… college students and their peers with mobility impairments. A vignette design was employed that involved input from focus groups of college students with mobility impairments. Data was collected from 360 able-bodied students at a Mid-Western university. Results provided support for a …
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Manipulating affordances in practice : a hermeneutic phenomenological study of mobility impairment and uses of digital technologies in work
… to gain an understanding of how people with mobility impairments use digital technologies in their work practices. A hermeneutic phenomenological methodology is used to reveal the phenomena, then to interpret the subsequent text through understandings of accessibility and use-potential which …
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Enlarging the Place: Adapting the Community Theatre Rehearsal Process for Elderly Persons, Persons with Mobility Impairment, and Persons with Autism Spectrum Disorder
… on the needs of elderly persons, persons with mobility impairment, and persons with Autism Spectrum Disorder. It is my wish to best adapt traditional rehearsal techniques to suit these and other groups. By seeking out the basic problems for working with specialized groups and by finding …
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Association of Blood Pressure and Gait Speed in Hypertensive Older Adults: The Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT)
Objectives: Hypertension and mobility impairment are both common in older adults; however, the relationship between hypertension and mobility in community-dwelling older adults is not well understood. The objective of this study was to examine the association of blood pressure measures and mobility …
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Acute metabolic response to functional electrical stimulation cycling in people with MS with severe mobility impairments
Persons with multiple sclerosis (MS) with severe mobility impairment have low levels of cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF). Exercise training is one strategy for improving CRF, however there are limited modalities for safely and effectively increasing CRF in individuals with MS with severe disability. …
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The representation of disabled women in Anglo American advertising : examining how cultural disability tropes impact on the subjective wellbeing of disabled women
… to nine advertisements featuring women with mobility impairment, mental health issues or visual impairment and gathering of data on how a sample of women with impairments respond to advertising representations of disability, I extend existing knowledge on the extent to which the makers of …
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College Students with Learning Disabilities in Mathematics : Are They Struggling to Achieve in the Postsecondary Education Setting
… setting. Of these, 29.4% have an orthopedic or mobility impairment, 17.1% have a mental illness, 15.1% have a systemic illness or impairment, 11.9% have a visual or hearing impairment, 6.4% have attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and 5.0% have a learning disabilities. While there are …
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Bandura's Social Cognitive Concepts and Physical Activity of People with Multiple Sclerosis: A Hierarchical Regression Analysis
… to alleviate multiple symptoms of MS such as mobility impairment, fatigue, pain, and depression, which then improves the quality of one’s life. Furthermore, there is strong empirical evidence to support the use of SCT as an efficacious treatment approach for employing health promotion …
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Physical access for persons with disabilities
… to a person with a disability or other mobility impairment. This litigation would be initiated after the individual was effectively refused service; a refusal based on hislher personal physical characteristics. If a shopping mall is not equipped with "access amenities", then the disabled …
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A descriptive study of the prevalence of Acute Foot and Ankle complaints/injuries of adults attending a public sector secondary hospital orthopaedic clinic in South Africa over a 12-week period
… systems around the world, and may also lead to mobility impairment, disability, and chronic pain in patients, especially when affecting the foot and ankle. The epidemiology of foot and ankle injuries has previously not been well reported in South Africa. In order to gain a greater understanding …