OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of intensive neurodevelopmental treatment (NDT) on gross motor function for the children having developmental delay (DD), with or without cerebral palsy (CP). METHODS Forty-two children had intensive NDT three times weekly, 60 minutes a day, for 3 months, immediately followed by conventional NDT once or twice a week, 30 minutes a day, for another 3 mont...

The importance of Nondestructive Testing (NDT) as a Quality Control/ Quality Assurance tool in the industrial domain cannot be over-emphasized. With the rapid advancement in research and technology, the NDT field is becoming larger and more sophisticated day by day. Innovative research in materials science and digital technology is paving the way for more and more new methods in NDT technology....

Objective: To compare the Neurocognitive Driving Test (NDT) with an established driving assessment method. Study Design: A prospective matched-control study. Participants: Fifteen adult volunteers with acquired brain injury (ABI), aged 21–59 years, referred for a driving evaluation and 15 healthy control (HC) participants. Methods: Individuals with ABI were administered the NDT and a traditiona...

The aim of this study was to compare the effect of neuro-development treatment (NDT) technique and NDT plus botulinum toxin type A (BTX-A) injection on the reduction of spasticity and improvement of the quality of movement patterns of lower limb in hemiplegic patients. For this purpose, 15 hemiplegic (8 female and 7 male cases) with an age range of 27-70 years participated in this study. The pa...

The aim of this study was to compare the effect of neuro-development treatment (NDT) technique and NDT plus botulinum toxin type A (BTX-A) injection on the reduction of spasticity and improvement of the quality of movement patterns of lower limb in hemiplegic patients. For this purpose, 15 hemiplegic (8 female and 7 male cases) with an age range of 27-70 years participated in this study. The pa...

On behalf of the ERA-EDTA, the NDT Editorial Office is proud to present its new educational journal NDT Plus. As announced in our Editorial Note1 in the July 2007 issue, this new bimonthly journal is designed to enhance, complement and add value to the leading nephrology journal NDT. NDT Plus aims to be an educational and training resource focusing on postgraduate clincial education and topics ...

Dr. Richard Guttler has been a member of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists’ guidelines committee for the diagnosis and treatment of hypothyroidism, and he has proclaimed himself “the real thyroid expert.” In 2004, Guttler published false claims about natural desiccated thyroid (NDT). One 4 of his claims is that NDT has “none of the benefit” that T provides patients. In the s...

BACKGROUND/AIMS The drink test has been regarded as a surrogate marker of gastric accommodation. The aims of this study were to develop a novel nutrient drink test (NDT) protocol and investigate its potential for application to a clinical trial of functional dyspepsia (FD). METHODS A novel NDT was designed, involving drinking 125 mL of nutrient 4 times at 5-minute intervals or until maximal t...