Communications Technology and Motor Neuron Disease: An Australian Survey of People With Motor Neuron Disease
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Communications Technology and Motor Neuron Disease: An Australian Survey of People With Motor Neuron Disease
BACKGROUND People with Motor Neuron Disease (MND), of which amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is the most common form in adults, typically experience difficulties with communication and disabilities associated with movement. Assistive technology is essential to facilitate everyday activities, promote social support and enhance quality of life. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to explore the types...
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Neurologists in the 19th century recognized that muscle weakness could be due to primary disorders of muscle or secondary to loss of neuromuscular integrity, as happens when peripheral nerves are cut or when motor neurons degenerate. Furthermore, it was observed that there are forms of motor neuron degeneration which selectively affect upper motor neurons or lower motor neurons. A combination o...
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Hadjikoutis and Wiles draw attention to a number of circumstances in which the serum chloride and bicarbonate can be misleading. They do not mention that they will also be misleading if they are measured when hypercapnia is increasing or decreasing. An exacerbation of hypercapnia will take 4 – 6 days to raise the serum bicarbonate and lower the serum chloride to new steady levels. 1 How long it...
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Motor neuron disease (MND) represents one ofthe major unsolved problems in neurology. The literature is characterized by numerous speculative theories, mostly derived by analogy with other recognized causes of motor neuron death such as poliomyelitis, or from toxic exposures such as lead poisoning. However, analogous reasoning of this type has not, so far, given insights into MND itself, or res...
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OBJECTIVE To capture the clinical patterns, timing of key milestones and survival of patients presenting with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/motor neuron disease (ALS/MND) within Australia. METHODS Data were prospectively collected and were timed to normal clinical assessments. An initial registration clinical report form (CRF) and subsequent ongoing assessment CRFs were submitted with a compl...
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عنوان ژورنال: JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2369-2529
DOI: 10.2196/rehab.4017