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Filter by:During hospitalisations, older inpatients commonly face issues such as immobility, loss of independence, and functional decline. This leads them down the cascade of dependency with consequent increased risk of adverse outcomes, institutionalisation as well as higher post-acute care costs. The investigators hypothesize that by implementing a mobility intervention in the inpatient setting, patients would be able to maintain their function upon discharge and avoid the cascade of dependency. As such, the investigators aim to do this by implementing and evaluating a mobility intervention, while optimising reversible factors affecting mobility among inpatients admitted to a geriatric unit in Singapore. The investigators will also examine the cost impact of a mobility focused model of care and also adopt the effectiveness-implementation hybrid Type 2 design where both effectiveness and implementation spheres are tested simultaneously.
The question this feasibility study aims to answer is whether or not participants are able to accurately and reliably perform and self record the timed up and go test in a non-clinical environment using the Medopad application. This forms part of a larger question of whether or not a more frequently performed TUG test, could act as a physical activity marker.
Limited ankle dorsiflexion adversely affects the weight bearing capacity, increases the knee extensor moment and causes insufficient maneuvers to change the center of gravity of the body in patients with hemiplegia. While biomechanical studies emphasized the importance of proximal tibiofibular joint and distal tibiofibular joint manipulations for ankle dorsiflexion, no studies examining the effect of corrective manipulation techniques applied to these two joints on foot posture, range of motion and balance were observed.
Older adults who are referred to home care physiotherapy often only get to see the physiotherapist three to five times and are expected to continue exercising on their own. We have developed an interactive technology called ABLE that helps older adults do exercise in their homes by making it fun and interactive. We want to see if we can help 25 older adults to exercise with ABLE for three months and if exercising with ABLE for three months changes older adults' strength and balance. A physiotherapist will visit the older adults three times in their homes and show them how to use ABLE and which exercises to do. We will measure older adults' strength and balance before and after using the program and ask them and their family members for feedback about using ABLE. The results of our study will help us decide if we can do a bigger study to test the effect of using ABLE in a larger group of older adults, and to see what effect ABLE might have on strength and balance. The study will also help us incorporate feedback from the older adults and their families to improve ABLE for the next study.
The purpose of this research study is to test the utility of an ankle robot, when used during treadmill walking, in people with ankle weakness and foot drop from a peripheral nervous system injury due to neuromuscular or orthopedic injury.
The purpose of this research study is to test the utility of an ankle robot in people with ankle weakness and foot drop from a peripheral nervous system injury due to neuromuscular or orthopedic injury.
The randomized clinical trial will aim to analyze the influence of binary and quaternary rhythm through a protocol on motor symptoms, sleep, fatigue and quality of life in individuals with Parkinson's disease. The study design with a randomized clinical trial, including individuals diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease, will be divided into two groups: 1) Control group 2) Experimental group. Cognition, balance, gait freezing, functional mobility, quality of life, sleep, daytime sleepiness and fatigue will be evaluated. Through the application of binary and quaternary rhythm protocol for a period of 12 weeks. First, the descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation and percentage) will be used to know the data, then the normality calculation using the Kolmogorov Smirnov test will be used to choose the statistical tests. All information will be collected before and after the intervention period. For statistical analysis, use the SPSS statistical package, version 20.0. (Kolmogorov-Smirnov or Shapiro-Wilk test) for the selection of statistical tests.