OBJECTIVE To correlate disease duration in spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 (SCA2) with disease severity, balance and functionality. METHOD Sixteen SCA2 patients were analyzed for: disease duration, disease severity (SARA score), balance (Berg balance scale score) and functionality (FIM and Lawton scores). RESULTS Greater severity was correlated with worse functionality (Lawton: r = -0.0561, F...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the construct validity of a bathroom scale measuring balance in elderly people. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Participants were recruited via nursing homes and an organization that provides exercise classes for community-dwelling elderly people. PARTICIPANTS Nursing home patients were compared with active community-dwelling elderly people. Eligibility cri...

a novel mathematical model has been developed to aid the formulation of emulsion explosives. this mathematical model calculated heat of explosion, oxygen balance and raw material cost as a function of explosive ingredients, and the solution of the mathematical model was obtained by a ms excel program. the effects of the different content of nh4no3, nano3, h2o, and span-80 and composite fuel oil...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of virtual reality (VR) and a tetra-ataxiometric posturography (Tetrax) program on stroke patients with impaired standing balance. METHODS Thirty acute stroke patients with impaired standing balance were recruited and randomly assigned to a VR, Tetrax, or control group. All patients received conventional balance training as a baseline; and VR and Tetrax pat...

Background. The cause of frequent falling in patients with dementia of the Alzheimer type (AD) is not weil understood. Distraction from incongruent visual stimuli may be an important factor as suggested by their poor performance in tests of shifting visual attention in other studies. The purpose of this study was to determine whether AD patients have difficulty maintaining upright balance under...