Strangman G, Goldstein R, Rauch SL, Stein J. Near-infrared spectroscopy and imaging for investigating stroke rehabilitation: test-retest reliability and review of the literature.
The construction of prototype like Exoskeleton for Lower Limb Training with Instrumented Orthoses (ELLTIO) using Series Elastic Actuator (SEA) to reduce the effort in the human joints, and a control law to perform a rehabilitation routine using an adaptive control scheme were first implemented in simulation to verify the control strategy and make a real rehabilitation test.
Main Outcome Measures: Deficit and change expressed as duration (s) and proportion for the 4 phases of the gait cycle at the time of admission to rehabilitation (test 1), a median of 31 days poststroke onset, and again 8 weeks later (test 2).
Participants expected health professionals to consistently be well informed about COPD, consider appropriate diagnostic investigation and treatment, and take the initiative to talk to patients about options for rehabilitation, tests, home help, etc.
Gooden spent April 1987 in rehabilitation after testing positive for cocaine; hung over, he had skipped the team's victory parade the autumn before.
He said his program, which reaches about one third of Washington's estimated 9,700 intravenous drug users, relied on clean syringes to attract users so he and his staff of four could counsel them about drug rehabilitation and testing for H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS.
Knowledge of lumbar spinal loads is required in proper management of various spinal disorders, effective risk prevention and assessment in the workplace, sports and rehabilitation, realistic testing of spinal implants as well as adequate loading in in vitro studies.
Some weak points are noteworthy in this study: (1) there is a lack of data concerning the position of the scapula before and after the rehabilitation, (2) testing was carried out by only two examiners and this might be a limit for the study realibility, (3) analysis of the scapular-stabilizing muscle patterns activation sequences was not performed.
This system was especially designed for optimal open chain reconditioning, rehabilitation, and testing of the knee joint.
It was the aim of this analysis to determine the psychometric properties of the MacNew questionnaire in a large cohort of patients in rehabilitation by testing acceptance, ceiling and floor effects, reliability (internal consistency), factor structure, construct validity, and sensitivity to change.
