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Paraspinal muscle morphology, composition and asymmetries: determinants and relation to low back pain and pathology.
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Background The lumbar paraspinal muscles are critical to provide spine stability, maintain proper posture and assist trunk movement. Although considerable attention has been focused on the association between variations in paraspinal muscle morphology and low back pain (LBP), their role in the...
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Spring 2019
Playing team sports provides many benefits including opportunities for children and adolescents to experience physical and social growth. Research regarding child and youth participation in wheelchair sports, particularly power wheelchair sports, is limited and qualitative research that has the...
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Fall 2021
Introduction Outcome measures are highly recommended in stroke physical therapy, however, most of the existing research has been performed from the provider perspective. Patient engagement encourages active participation in the therapy process and requires partnership between patient and...
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People with Disabilities: Rhythms of Life, Social Spatialisations, Desires and Barriers. El Codito Experience
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The present qualitative study sought to identify and comprehensively explore the interactions, the identification of rhythms, barriers, limitations, desires and interests of PWD in the production of their social spatialisation in the El Codito sector. By using some Participatory Action Research...
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Perceived Outcomes and Expectations for Disclosure of an ASD Diagnosis in Community Recreation Contexts: An Instrumental Case Study
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Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) identify community leisure and recreation activities as their highest priority when setting personal participation goals, yet they participate in significantly fewer community-based activities than their typically developing peers. Decreased community...
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Physical Activity in Association with Prognostic Determinants Across Heart Failure Continuum
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Heart Failure (HF) is a complex syndrome that greatly contributes to declining physical function in older adults and causes a substantial economic burden for health care systems. Older adults at risk of developing HF typically have other comorbidities. In addition, patients with HF often...
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Physical Therapy Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Cancer: Collating the Evidence from Research and Clinical Practice
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Purpose: Children and adolescents with cancer who undergo cancer treatment are at high risk of developing serious late and long-term physical effects, many of which may be amenable to physical therapy (PT). Little is known about the benefits of PT or the services currently provided to address...
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Pilot Study to Enhance the Repeatability, Validity and Reliability of Traditional Observational Falls Risk Assessments by Incorporating Markerless Motion Capture Technology
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Certain individuals, especially those in the geriatric population experience falls each year. Although there are validated assessment tools, like the Berg Balance Scale (BBS), they can be very subjective and insensitive to change. These tools are also limited to face-to-face interactions between...
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Fall 2014
Free play is not only one of the most important means through which children develop and know their world, but also it is the way in which they show their physical, cognitive, social and creative abilities. Children with severe physical disabilities have motor control problems that affect gross...