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Filter by:The purpose of this single-subject, concurrent mixed methods study is to investigate the relationship between the effect of the CIMT protocol on gait and mobility and participants' and caregivers' expectations and perceptions regarding the treatment. The goal of the quantitative strand is to assess changes in quality of movement and functional use of the paretic lower limb after the treatment and investigate the participants' expectations in regards the intervention using the Participant Opinion Survey (POS). The qualitative strand (participant interviews) will determine perspectives of caregiver and participant perspectives regarding protocol acceptability. Both quantitative and qualitative data will be collected and analyzed concurrently, through triangulation and complementarity rationales; both data will be equally prioritized.
The current study is designed to evaluate neck movements performed according to the VRP-Clinic software, and to verify that they promote physical activities that correspond with physical rehabilitation.
This randomized, feasibility trial (n=40) will compare the effects of an intensive, twice daily inpatient physical rehabilitation program against standard care (once daily) following double lung transplantation.
Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA), Cerebral Palsy (CP), and Obstetric Brachial Plexus Injury (OBPI) are the most common disorders that cause upper extremity impairments in children. Depending on the underlying pathologies, the common symptoms of these disorders are the limitations of the upper extremity joint movement angles, muscle imbalance and the functional limitations caused by the contracture due to these problems. Daily life activities such as feeding, personal care, and self mobility activities that use upper extremity are commonly limited with these children. Physical rehabilitation is mostly used to address these problems. However, the process of rehabilitation is difficult and lengthy. In addition, most of the time, classical rehabilitation is discouraging for many young patients. Employment of digital technology has been gaining momentum in addressing the above rehabilitation problems among the medical professionals. By utilizing exciting new sensor technologies, such as Microsoft Kinect, Nintendo Wii and Leap Motion, practical game based rehabilitation applications have been becoming popular. Video Based Games (VBG) that adopt the these technologies as Human Computer Interaction (HCI) interfaces are recently used successfully for the task of rehabilitation. The Leap Motion device, one of the new examples of these technologies, has a very small form factor. It includes two near infrared stereoscopic cameras to capture hand images of patients to produce 3 Dimensional (3D) positions of hand joints at a very fast rate with a sufficient positional precision. There have been examples that use motion sensor based VBG's for the rehabilitation of different types of patient groups. Compared to classical rehabilitation practices, these applications provide many advantages such as ease of use, repeatableness, and instantaneous measurable feedback. In addition, the young patients involved in these applications demonstrated willingness to participate in these activities and they showed considerable progress in upper extremity rehabilitation. However, these VBG's were mostly developed for general public and it was often suggested to develop VBG's for the specific task of upper extremity rehabilitation of children. It is known that upper extremity specific VBG's and their applications are very limited both at the global and domestic levels. With this project, we plan to design and develop specialized Leap Motion based VBG's for the children diagnosed with JIA, CP, and OBPI. These VBG's will be designed to be easy to use and motivating for the children. They will automatically lead the patients to correct hand exercises and they will provide mechanisms for online performance measurements of the patients. The performance results from the patients will be compared with the results from the classical rehabilitation applications by the standards of The International Classification of Functioning (ICF). These games will provide complete Turkish language support for the extended national dissemination of the project outputs. The proposed project is inherently a multi disciplinary work that requires very close interaction of phisiotherapists, software experts, and HCI specialists and efficient application of the these games for the patients. There will be specialized games for each disorder. These games will utilize the outputs from the Leap Motion device that will produce 3D hand joint positions and joint angles. Realistic animations of hand and virtual environments will provide a motivating exercise game platform for the patients.The performance measurements of the patients will be repeated for each game session. There will be game parameters for the game duration, difficulty level, and hand joints in focus. The game hand movements will reflect daily life activities for the rehabilitation purposes which would make our games different from the general public games. The project findings at end of the project on best game usage frequency and durations, the effectiveness of the designed VBG's and other results will be shared with the scientific community through publications and seminars.
This study has 2 parts: In one part of this study, people with stroke will either play a custom designed computer game for stroke rehabilitation called Duck Duck Punch or an off the shelf computer game with their weaker arm 3 times per week for 6 weeks. Evaluations will determine whether or not one computer game improved arm movement more than the other. In the second part of the study, people with stroke, caregivers of people with stroke and stroke rehabilitation therapists will meet in several focus groups to design a useful and informative Duck Duck Punch performance report.
One group will receive today's standard rehabilitation program following hip fracture surgery. The intervention group will have maximal strength training incorporated in their program. It consists of 3 training sessions per week for 8 weeks, where 4-5 repetitions over 4 sets for leg press and abduction resistance exercise at ~85% of maximal strength is carried out. Muscle strength, balance and bone density will be compared between the groups following the 8-week rehabilitation period. The feasibility of the intervention for the patient group will be evaluated based on compliance with training program and possible adverse events related to the operated hip.
Congenital or acquired neurological disorders could lead to consistent motor and cognitive disabilities. The continuity and persistency of a tailored home rehabilitation protocol after recovery is crucial to prevent disease aggravation or relapses. The integration of a web-based new technology in home rehabilitation programme can constitute a functional low cost resource by offering patients off-line (and on-line) monitoring and by proposing new motivating ways of rehabilitation through high tech tools such as serious games.
The main purpose of this study is to determine the influence of obesity on the short term follow-up indicators of a polyvalent geriatric rehabilitation clinic after total knee arthroplasty. It is a retrospective, comparative study The secondary purposes are to explore the links between length of stay and short-term follow-up indicators of a polyvalent geriatric rehabilitation clinic after total knee arthroplasty.
Our purpose was to examine the combined effects of thrust mobilization of the proximal and distal ankle joints in conjunction with a six-week rehabilitation program on ankle function in subjects reporting chronic ankle instability (CAI).
The risk of falling affects more than one third of people over 65 years old and over 50% of persons over 80 years. These falls have important consequences for the autonomy of the elderly patient and also increase the risk of sequelae and death. The goal of this study is to evaluate a personalized rehabilitation program for elderly patients that fall for the first time and to measure the impact on the fear of falling of these patients. This intervention is a home-based program combining exercises, home modifications and education on fall risk factors.