Sentence examples for more sensitive functional from inspiring English sources

The purposes of this study were to determine whether a lateral hop test was a more sensitive functional test over time than a forward hop test in assessing lateral ankle sprains, and whether lateral hop performance can predict a subjective score from an ankle rating scale.

The absence of significant differences in treadmill prompted us to use another, possibly more sensitive, functional assay.

Furthermore, Pradillo et al., did not detect significant changes in behavioral [34], which emphasize the necessity to use more sensitive functional assessment.

The selection of our tertiary outcome variable, QuickDASH, 14 can also be questioned, since the Michigan Hand Outcomes Questionnaire (MHQ) has been postulated to be slightly more sensitive to functional changes concerning hand injuries.

Compared with morphometric imaging, SPECT is a more sensitive modality for functional imaging used to detect the early stages of neurodegenerative disease before shrinkage in AD [4].

Compared with morphometric imaging, SPECT is a more sensitive modality for functional imaging used to detect the early stages of neurodegenerative disease before shrinkage [4].

The study further found that the elevated eosinophils were associated with more sensitive indicators of functional immune status, such as decreased T-lymphocyte proliferation and increased neutrophil phagocytosis.

If short-term increases in ambient pollution levels indeed increase the risk of hospitalization of HF patients for acute symptom exacerbation, it is plausible that associations might also be observed with more sensitive markers of functional status.

For this reason, in vitro assays may be more sensitive to capture functional changes resulting from altered TnI TnC interactions which may be blunted by additional, cross-bridge dependent mechanisms in isometrically contracting fibers.

For example, physicians may be more accurate in assessing objective measures of disease severity (including functional or physiological changes apparent only on physical examination or diagnostic testing) whereas patients may be more sensitive to symptoms and functional impairments that are not recognized or are under-appreciated by the physician.

This family of methods based on the analysis of functionally-related gene sets, (modules therein), are known to be more sensitive than other alternative functional enrichment methods [ 17- 19].