Introduction: Huntington's disease is an inherited neurodegenerative disease associated with widespread neuronal degeneration in neostriatum and neocortex. Progress of the disease causes disabling clinical effects on movements, cognition and physiology of the body, and finally results in death. Currently, there is no effective therapeutic strategy for diminishing the motor disabilities of Hunti...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed: (i) to determine the level of agreement between responses of people with stroke and their proxies on a participation questionnaire, and (ii) to explore patient and proxy characteristics related to disagreement between their responses. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SUBJECTS A total of 40 community-dwelling people with stroke and their proxies (total n = 80). MET...

Outcome of full-term infants with neonatal encephalopathy of hypoxic-ischemic origin is often assessed in infancy or early childhood and data on outcome in childhood and adolescence is limited. MRI performed in the neonatal period has made a huge contribution to recognition of different patterns of injury. These different patterns of injury are related to the severity of later motor and cogniti...

Pediatricians often are called on to prescribe physical, occupational, and speech-language therapy services for children with motor disabilities. This report defines the context in which rehabilitation therapies should be prescribed, emphasizing the evaluation and enhancement of the child's function and abilities and participation in age-appropriate life roles. The report encourages pediatricia...

A system that allows computer interaction by disabled people with very low mobility and who cannot use the standard procedure based on keyboard and mouse is presented. The development device uses the patient’s voluntary biomechanical signals, specifically, winks—which constitute an ability that generally remains in this kind of patients—, as interface to control the computer. A prototype based ...

OBJECTIVE To study the effect of whole-body vibration therapy on bone mass, bone turnover and body composition in severely disabled children. METHODS Nineteen non-ambulatory children aged 5.1-16.3 years (6 males, 13 females) with severe motor disabilities participated in an intervention programme with standing exercise on a self-controlled dynamic platform, which included whole-body vibration...

The Directive (EU) 2015/653 aimed at facilitating that the maximum force any disabled driver could make on vehicle’s primary controls be adjusted to their needs. technical adjustment in design requires a measurement of operational forces applied by steering and brake controls, order determine its functional capacity during execution driving manoeuvres. objective this paper is define braking ope...

<p><span>This paper presents the design and implementation of five floors electrical elevator system that utilizes voice recognition technology, specifically using an Arduino microcontroller, for special applications. The purpose this project is to provide a convenient accessible means transportation individuals with disabilities, those who may have difficulty traditional elevators ...

Physical therapists employed in public schools may be responsible for the evaluation and treatment of not only physically handicapped children, but also children who have moderate to severe motor disabilities secondary to mental retardation. The purpose of this article is to suggest appropriate assessment and treatment techniques for these children. General principles of intervention based on n...

The developmental disabilities are a group of disorders differentiated by the pattern of delay among developmental streams. The four streams of development include language, problem solving, motor and social. Cerebral palsy (CP) is a disorder of development in which motor function abnormalities are a key feature. It is a most common developmental disorder of children first described by William ...