responses to salbutamol using Diskhaler versus metered-dose inhaler. Comparison of the bronchodilating efficacies of a novel salbutamol metered dose powder inhaler and a pressurised metered dose aerosol with a spacer. Efficacy of a new non-ozone depleting formulation for salbutamol. Comparison of inhaled ter-butaline administered by either the Turbuhaler dry powder or a metered-dose inhaler wit...

We present the case of a professional adolescent footballer who attended our clinic with ongoing instability symptoms and valgus knee deformity after conservative management of an medial collateral ligament injury. The patient was found to have sustained a contra-coup Salter Harris Type V injury to his lateral distal femur physis resulting in premature growth arrest and deformity. Salter Harris...

INTRODUCTION Although video analysis is the only method available to extract kinematic data from real injury situations to clarify the mechanisms for noncontact anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury, most studies have been limited to simple visual inspection, the accuracy of which has been shown to be limited. As an alternative, a model-based image-matching (MBIM) technique has been developed...

Abstract Vividly, it is not an overstatement to say that football game the most prominent sport in recent world. The present study about impact of athletic scholarship on achievement motivation university students. Athletic type helps students discover, improve and exhibit their talent skills. It makes effective contributions development within campus prepares ambitious hardworking college or a...

PURPOSE The aim of this paper is to examine conceptual issues that challenge development of valid and useful measures of children's participation. METHOD Ambiguities in the current definition of participation in the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) are examined along with their implications for developing valid measures for children and youth. RESULTS...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to obtain data about typical children on the 99-item Sensory Profile, a newly developed tool derived from sensory history items reported in the literature and designed to assess children's responses to commonly occurring sensory events. METHOD Parents of 64 typical children 3 to 10 years of age completed the Sensory Profile; parents used a five-point L...

OBJECTIVE To investigate cross-cultural validity of a newly developed Assessment of Children's Hand Skills (ACHS) in children with and without disabilities. SUBJECTS One group of 138 Australian children and 134 Taiwanese children, age range 2-12 years (a total of 149 typically developing children and 123 children with disabilities). METHODS Rasch model analysis was used to evaluate rating s...

BACKGROUND Increasing emphasis on family-centred approaches to services and supports for families of children with disabilities has surfaced the issue of accountability for family outcomes. We present a review of literature about the impacts of children with disabilities on families as a backdrop to proposing family quality of life as a concept that encompasses impacts of disability and one tha...