virtual reality and passive exercise devices

báo cáo khoa học:" Cross-cultural validity of four quality of life scales in persons with spinal cord injury" docx

báo cáo khoa học:" Cross-cultural validity of four quality of life scales in persons with spinal cord injury" docx

Ngày tải lên : 12/08/2014, 01:21
... Switzerland 2Department of Health Sciences and Health Policy, University of Lucerne and SPF, Nottwil, Switzerland 3Seminar for Statistics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland ... relationships, and living conditions The WHOQOL and WHOQOL-BREF were specifically developed for cross-cultural use and are currently available in 36 languages Psychometric Geyh et al Health and Quality ... data, the drafting and revision of the manuscript IK contributed to the acquisition and management of the data and revised the manuscript MP contributed to the conception and design of the study,...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Quantifying the quality of hand movement in stroke patients through three-dimensional curvature" potx

Báo cáo hóa học: " Quantifying the quality of hand movement in stroke patients through three-dimensional curvature" potx

Ngày tải lên : 19/06/2014, 08:20
... Characteristics of hand path movement Figure shows the initial measurements for hand path, speed, curvature and jerk movement in the patients with a SIAS score of 2, 3, and 4, and in the healthy ... (s) Figure Hand paths, including the speed, curvature, and jerk profiles were evaluated in four representative participants Panels A, B, C and D show the respective hand paths The hand path is ... healthy participants Red, blue, and green thick and dotted lines in panels A and B denotes median (thick lines) and quartile (dotted lines) of MedianL from both initial and final measurements in Experiment...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Effects of Corticosteroid and Electroacupuncture on Experimental Spinal Cord Injury in Dogs" doc

Báo cáo khoa học: "Effects of Corticosteroid and Electroacupuncture on Experimental Spinal Cord Injury in Dogs" doc

Ngày tải lên : 07/08/2014, 17:22
... quality of stimulation can be more accurately, uniformly, and objectively regulated and measured, and the electroacupuncture produce a higher and more continuous level of stimulation than can be provided ... antiedemic effect of corticosteroid and acupuncture References Altman, S Techniques and instrumentation Problems in Vet Med 1992, 4, 66~87 Andy, S., Richard, W R and Charles, D K Spinal-evoked potentials ... Mcguire, J A and Hoff, E J Evaluation of dexamethasone, DMSO, mannitol, and solcoseryl in acute spinal cord trauma J Am Anim Hosp Assoc 1983, 19, 216~226 11 Holliday, R W., Weldon, N E and Ealand, B...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Technology-assisted training of arm-hand skills in stroke: concepts on reacquisition of motor control and therapist guidelines for rehabilitation technology design" ppt

Báo cáo hóa học: " Technology-assisted training of arm-hand skills in stroke: concepts on reacquisition of motor control and therapist guidelines for rehabilitation technology design" ppt

Ngày tải lên : 19/06/2014, 08:20
... [165,167,169] Virtual reality- based hand training systems that have been developed by Burdea et al are Rutgers Master II glove and Cyber Glove [170,15,171] Patients practise by doing one to four hand exercise ... schedule with frequent rest periods) and random ordering of taskrelated exercises improves performance and learning [3,80] A good interchange between loading and adequate rest intervals are necessary ... one additional active and two passive degrees of freedom can extend it All exercises happen in a virtual environment Performance feedback is provided The therapist can create virtual tasks Three...
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báo cáo hóa học:" Evaluation of deformity and hand function in cerebral palsy patients" pdf

báo cáo hóa học:" Evaluation of deformity and hand function in cerebral palsy patients" pdf

Ngày tải lên : 20/06/2014, 01:20
... presented in terms of rank and percentages Our assessment protocol focused on deformity, sensation, spasticity, motor control and hand function The correlation between hand function and the other parameters ... ADLs and was allowed to use both hands The unaffected hand could compensate for the affected side, giving the false impression that the affected hand's function was better The MAULF tested one hand ... deformity and hand function in cerebral palsy patients would allow us to better understand a difficult problem in http://www.josr-online.com/content/3/1/52 a more global perspective and help us...
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Báo cáo y học: " Restoration of diaphragmatic function after diaphragm reinnervation by inferior laryngeal nerve; experimental study in rabbits" pot

Báo cáo y học: " Restoration of diaphragmatic function after diaphragm reinnervation by inferior laryngeal nerve; experimental study in rabbits" pot

Ngày tải lên : 12/08/2014, 16:20
... Two groups (GI and GII) were used as controls and three (GIII, GIV and GV) were designed as study groups with three different reinnervation protocols -GI: rabbits were left intact and used as controls ... coupled with the abductor branch of the inferior laryngeal nerve Materials and methods Animals and groups A total of 35 New Zealand rabbits (C.E.G.A.V., Saint Mars d'Egrenne, France) were included ... license: 76.A.21, and Ethical committee for Animal Experimentation in NormandyFrance N/01-11-03-04) Surgical procedure The rabbits were premedicated with Valium® (10 mg/kg, IM) and anesthetized...
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Robot assisted rehabilitation of forearm and hand function after stroke

Robot assisted rehabilitation of forearm and hand function after stroke

Ngày tải lên : 14/09/2015, 14:04
... arm and hand rehabilitation 23 2.4.2 Robots dedicated to wrist and hand rehabilitation 24 2.4.3 Robots dedicated to hand and fingers rehabilitation 25 2.4.4 HandCPM ... attached to the hand and wrist by means of braces and that are connected to the fingertips Most devices work by passively moving the tips of the fingers, pulling them up to open the hand, and then reversing ... presents several commercialized CPM devices Figure 2.6: Examples of commercial Hand CPM devices: the Meastra Hand and Wrist CPM, the Kinetec Maestra Portable Hand CPM and the DigiGlide (adapted from...
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Báo cáo Y học: The expression of glutathione reductase in the male reproductive system of rats supports the enzymatic basis of glutathione function in spermatogenesis doc

Báo cáo Y học: The expression of glutathione reductase in the male reproductive system of rats supports the enzymatic basis of glutathione function in spermatogenesis doc

Ngày tải lên : 17/03/2014, 17:20
... concentrations of total glutathione and GSSG were calculated from the absorbance change using authentic GSH and Ó FEBS 2002 1572 T Kaneko et al (Eur J Biochem 269) GSSG as a standard and the data are expressed ... deferens, and prostate gland in 13-week-old-adult rats (Fig 1A) The highest activity for GR was found in the epididymis, followed by seminal vesicles, prostate gland, vas deferens, and testes ... intensity of the bands for the protein and the mRNA were faint Effects of inhibitors of cGCS and GR on primary cultured testicular cells To investigate the contribution of de novo synthesis and the recycling...
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late neoclassical economics restoration of theoretical humanism in contemporary mainstream economics

late neoclassical economics restoration of theoretical humanism in contemporary mainstream economics

Ngày tải lên : 03/06/2014, 02:05
... economics, and complexity theory (see also, Colander, Holt and Rosser, 2004: 496) Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis (2000) identify Ronald Coase, Friedrich von Hayek, Duncan Luce and Howard Riaffa, and ... Cowles Commission and the empiricist pragmatism of the Marshallian applied microeconomics of the Chicago School (Novshek and Sonnenschein, 1987; Hands and Mirowski, 1998; Mirowski and Hands, 1998; ... neoclassical economics (up to the 1970s) and the contemporary For recent surveys, see (Bowles and Gintis, 2000; Colander, 2000; Mirowski, 2002; Colander, Holt and Rosser, 2004; Davis, 2006) mainstream...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Quantification of the effects of an alpha-2 adrenergic agonist on reflex properties in spinal cord injury using a system identification technique" pptx

Báo cáo hóa học: " Quantification of the effects of an alpha-2 adrenergic agonist on reflex properties in spinal cord injury using a system identification technique" pptx

Ngày tải lên : 19/06/2014, 08:20
... collection and analysis, and participated in interpreting and writing the manuscript DC referred the patients and participated in interpreting data, and WZR participated in interpreting data and writing ... plantarflexion and the torque and EMG responses were ensemble-averaged Pseudorandom binary sequence trials To identify overall stiffness properties and to separate the reflex and intrinsic components, ... to follow a command input Subjects were seated and secured in an adjustable chair with the ankle strapped to the footrest and the thigh and trunk strapped to the chair The seat and footrest were...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Kinematic analysis of the daily activity of drinking from a glass in a population with cervical spinal cord injury" potx

Báo cáo hóa học: " Kinematic analysis of the daily activity of drinking from a glass in a population with cervical spinal cord injury" potx

Ngày tải lên : 19/06/2014, 08:20
... movement with respect to the arm, and hand movement with respect to the forearm using Euler angle notation and a sequence of ZXY rotations of the trunk, arm and hand, and ZYX rotations of the forearm ... placed against the trunk and the elbow was flexed 90° flexion and in a neutral pronation-supination, i.e., with the palm of the hand perpendicular to the table surface and facing inward (medially) ... lateral and medial epicondyles proximally and the Z-axis was the line that joined both epicondyles in the lateral direction In the hand, the origin was at the midpoint between radial and ulnar...
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báo cáo hóa học: " The effects of powered ankle-foot orthoses on joint kinematics and muscle activation during walking in individuals with incomplete spinal cord injury" pptx

báo cáo hóa học: " The effects of powered ankle-foot orthoses on joint kinematics and muscle activation during walking in individuals with incomplete spinal cord injury" pptx

Ngày tải lên : 19/06/2014, 10:20
... [17,18], Lokomat® [19,20] and PAM, POGO and ARTHuR [21] are all examples of robotic http://www.jneuroengrehab.com/content/3/1/3 devices that are integrated into a treadmill and bodyweight support ... joint angles and footground contact, lower limb surface electromyography, pushbutton control signal, artificial muscle force and elastic band force We recorded bilateral ankle, knee and hip Page ... speed, trial condition and fidelity of the data We calculated the average standard deviation over the stride cycle (reported in Figures and 5) for each average profile and for each condition...
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Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "Effects of soil mechanical treatments combined with bramble and bracken control on the restoration of degraded understory in an ancient beech forest" pptx

Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "Effects of soil mechanical treatments combined with bramble and bracken control on the restoration of degraded understory in an ancient beech forest" pptx

Ngày tải lên : 07/08/2014, 16:20
... design of soil and vegetation treatments in the four studied stands Empty columns are control strips Shaded areas show strips that are absent in some stands Experimental strips and date of treatment ... composition Rotary plough and roller explained each 11% of the floristic variation Clearing saw and disc plough explained each 7% of the variation, soil moisture and asulam 4% Harrow and brush cutter did ... scaled in standard deviation units Eigenvalues of first and second axis were: site 0.087 and 0.052, respectively Species abbreviations are based on the first four letters of genus and species names...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Functional recovery and neural differentiation after transplantation of allogenic adipose-derived stem cells in a canine model of acute spinal cord injury" potx

Báo cáo khoa học: "Functional recovery and neural differentiation after transplantation of allogenic adipose-derived stem cells in a canine model of acute spinal cord injury" potx

Ngày tải lên : 07/08/2014, 23:22
... the ASC group (circles) G and H: These showed structural consistency with nerve cell A, B and C: H&E stain, D-G: Luxol fast blue and cresyl violet stain, H, H1, H2 and H3: Immunofluorescence ... USA), CD11c (#MCA1778S; AbD Serotec, USA) and CD34 (#1H6; Becton, Dickinson and Company, USA) The seventh passage of ASCs were trypsinized, centrifuged and resuspended to concentration of about ... after transfection and supernatant was harvested at 48 and 72 h after transfection Viral supernatant was filtered using 0.4 μm pore filter (Invitrogen, USA) Fig Adipogenic and osteogenic differentiation...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Relationship of cognitive function in patients with schizophrenia in remission to disability: a cross-sectional study in an Indian sample" pps

Báo cáo khoa học: "Relationship of cognitive function in patients with schizophrenia in remission to disability: a cross-sectional study in an Indian sample" pps

Ngày tải lên : 08/08/2014, 23:20
... investigator (RK) and confirmed by senior psychiatrists (AN and RRP) The diagnosis of schizophrenia was made at clinical interview and augmented by discussion with relatives and a review of clinical ... medication and support them in times of crisis and need, functions, which in the West are carried out by assertive outreach teams, crisis teams and community mental health teams, and are believed ... abnormalities, persistent and stable over time [6] In patients with schizophrenia, delusions and hallucinations could arise as a result of deficits in cognitive functions involving perceptual and attributional...
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Báo cáo y học: "Vitamin D receptor gene polymorphisms and susceptibility of hand osteoarthritis in Finnish wome" pdf

Báo cáo y học: "Vitamin D receptor gene polymorphisms and susceptibility of hand osteoarthritis in Finnish wome" pdf

Ngày tải lên : 09/08/2014, 07:20
... elderly Dutch men and women It can be expected that the same polymorphisms could be important for both knee OA and hand OA, although no association between the VDR genotypes and hand OA was found ... metabolism, OA, the immune response, and cancer [12] The VDR gene acts as an important regulator of calcium metabolism and bone cell function [13], and it was the first candidate gene to be studied in ... the risk of hand OA in Finnish middleaged women In addition, we evaluated whether the calcium intake modifies the relationship between the VDR gene polymorphisms and hand OA Materials and methods...
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Báo cáo y học: " Interrelated modulation of endothelial function in Behcet''''s disease by clinical activity and corticosteroid treatmen" ppt

Báo cáo y học: " Interrelated modulation of endothelial function in Behcet''''s disease by clinical activity and corticosteroid treatmen" ppt

Ngày tải lên : 09/08/2014, 10:21
... differences were found between active and inactive BD or between corticosteroid receiving and nonreceiving patients, and no interaction between corticosteroids and BD disease was identified (data ... corticosteroid treatment, and their respective control subgroups Numbers of patients and significant differences between subgroups (t-test) are shown Values are expressed as mean ± standard error Furthermore, ... (Wilkoxon test) was used to compare changes in FMD and NMD, before and after days on corticosteroid treatment Values are expressed as mean ± standard error of the mean P < 0.05 was deemed to indicate...
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