Introduction: Individuals with cerebral palsy (CP) demonstrate high response variability to motor training insufficiently accounted for by age or severity. We propose here that differences in the inherent ability to learn new motor tasks may explain some of this variability. Damage to motor pathways involving the cerebellum, which may be a direct or indirect effect of the brain injury for many ...

Dominant Foot – “Right Footed” The human body is made up largely of paired structures, most of which are not perfectly matched. Stated differently, the apparent mirror image symmetry of the human body (arms, legs, face, eyes) is in reality an array of asymmetrical parts. It is this fundamental asymmetry that leads to the concept of dominance. For example, most people have a dominant arm and han...

The purpose of this study was to identify whether the value of stiffness during two-legged countermovement jump in dominant lower limb is similar to the one in non-dominant lower limb. The research was conducted on 35 basketball players. Each participant performed three countermovement jumps with arm swing to the maximum height. Measurements employed a two Kistler force plates and a BTS SMART s...

Good balance is a pre-requisite for various activities of daily life and sports. Physiotherapists thus regularly assess train patient’s capacities. In order to interpret the test results unilateral tests, comparison with normative data common. patients who had an injury or surgery, performance injured leg often compared non-injured leg. Nevertheless, it remains unclear if differs between domina...

Objectives AIS was associated with low bone mass which, apart from being an important health issue that could persist into adulthood, was also a significant prognostic factor for curve progression in AIS. We have performed a randomized controlled trial on WBV and reported its effect on increasing femoral neck areal bone mineral density (aBMD) mainly at the dominant leg but less obviously at the...

Background: Osteoarthritis (OA) is second most common degenerative arthritis with 56.6% affection in rural areas where as 32.6% urban India.Dominant lower limb the leg used to manipulate objects or lead out movement. Primary predisposing factor of wear and tear which might correlate dominance limb. Methodology: Total 180 subjects were screened, 61 bilateral osteoarthritis 40 unilateral selected...

BACKGROUND Coactivation of primary motor cortex ipsilateral to a unilateral movement (M1(ipsilateral)) has been observed, and the magnitude of activation is influenced by the contracting muscles. It has been suggested that the microstructural integrity of the callosal motor fibers (CMFs) connecting M1 regions may reflect the observed response. However, the association between the structural con...

CONTEXT How athletes from different sports perform on balance tests is not well understood. When prescribing balance exercises to athletes in different sports, it may be important to recognize performance variations. OBJECTIVE To compare static and dynamic balance among collegiate athletes competing or training in soccer, basketball, and gymnastics. DESIGN A quasi-experimental, between-grou...

conclusions the frequency of rls among our patients was remarkable and we conclude that all patients who are undergoing hemodialysis should be screened for rls, which can assist in providing proper attention and treatment. results according to our results, 54.5% of patients were diagnosed with rls, and of those 65.2% and 42.9% were women and men, respectively. rls is seen more often among patie...