PRIMARY OBJECTIVE This article describes mobility recovery for children and youth with traumatic and non-traumatic brain injury during hospital-based rehabilitation. RESEARCH DESIGN A retrospective, descriptive pre-test/post-test design was used. METHODS AND PROCEDURES One hundred and fifty-seven individuals with brain injury who were admitted for rehabilitation over a 5-year period were en...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the applicability of ultrasound imaging of the diaphragm in interstitial lung disease (ILD). METHODS Using ultrasound, we compared ILD patients and healthy volunteers (controls) in terms of diaphragmatic mobility during quiet and deep breathing; diaphragm thickness at functional residual capacity (FRC) and at total lung capacity (TLC); and the thickening fraction (TF,...

OBJECTIVES To examine the relationship between performance on executive function measures and subsequent mobility outcomes in community-dwelling older adults. DESIGN Randomized controlled clinical trial. SETTING Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. PARTICIPANTS Community-dwelling older adults (N = 179; mean age 66.4). INTERVENTION A 12-month exercise trial with two arms: an aerobic exercise grou...

BACKGROUND Functional mobility of older adults has been shown to correlate with stance stability to various extents. This variability could be due to the difference in the way sensory information is processed in these two types of balance tests. Correlations between functional mobility and stance stability under altered sensory conditions, such as those in the Sensory Organization Test (SOT), a...

BACKGROUND Physical activity programs in nursing homes typically consist of seated, range of motion (ROM) exercises, regardless of resident abilities. The Functional Fitness for Long-Term Care (FFLTC) Program was designed not only to maintain ROM, but also to improve strength, balance, flexibility, mobility, and function. In addition, it was tailored to meet the needs of both high and low mobil...

Nowadays, distributed and mobile systems are acquiring importance and becoming widely extended for supporting ubiquitous computing. In order to develop such systems in a technology-independent way, it is important to have a formalism that describes distribution and mobility at a high abstraction level. Ambient Calculus is a formalism that allows the representation of boundaries where computatio...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relative importance of therapy focus, intensity, and length of stay on greater than expected functional gain, controlling for stroke severity. METHODS This observational study included 198 first-stroke patients who were recruited from 8 in-patient rehabilitation facilities and 5 subacute programs. Stroke severity (motor, sen...

Immobility in the intensive care unit (ICU) is associated with neuromuscular weakness, post-intensive care syndrome, functional limitations, and high costs. Early mobility-based rehabilitation in the ICU is feasible and safe. Mobility-based rehabilitation varied widely across 5 ICUs in 1 health care system, suggesting a need for continuous training and evaluation to maintain a strong mobility-b...