Abstract Background Excessive stress and anxiety can impair learning. The objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) is a valuable tool to assess promote the acquisition of skills. However, significant OSCE-related are frequently reported. aim this study was investigate relationships between physiological stress, self-reported levels due an OSCE, self-efficacy, meanings that physical therapy students attribute their experience with exam. Design Concurrent mixed methods study. Methods A...

This study compared the passive stiffness of wrist flexors and strength extensors in three different positions (30 degrees flexion, neutral, 30 extension) between children with cerebral palsy (CP) typically developing (TD) comparison children. It also examined associations these characteristics manual function CP. Eleven spastic hemiplegic CP (six females, five males; mean age 8y 5mo [SD 1y 8mo], range 6-11y) 11 TD children, matched for sex, took part this study. Passive muscles was measured...

Objective: To evaluate the effects of constraint-induced movement therapy on use affected arm and daily functioning in children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy. Design: A single-blinded randomized clinical trial. Subjects: Sixteen palsy to intervention (n = 8, 4 males, females, mean age 5 years 6 months) control groups 7 months). Interventions: Non-affected group was restricted for 10 hours/ day intensively trained 3 hours/day two weeks. The protocol included one week bimanual functional...

To investigate changes in gait quality, balance and mobility associated with treadmill training for ataxic individuals.Single-subject ABA design. Baseline phases (A) lasted three weeks intervention (B) four weeks.University rehabilitation clinic.A woman (25 years) a man (53 chronic ataxia due to head trauma.Three 20-minute sessions each week progression velocity step length.Rivermead Visual Gait Assessment, Timed Up Go, time complete task, walking speed, cadence, stride length assessments...

Aims To evaluate attendance rates, daily therapy engagement, parents' perceptions regarding feasibility, acceptability, family-centeredness, and individualized outcomes of a collaborative telehealth-based physical intervention for children with disabilities.

Abstract This study aimed to examine the conceptions of disability among 30 professionals in training or practice, representing 14 distinct health professions, through individual interviews. A committee experts developed thirty-four representative statements encompassing religious-moral, medical, social, and affirmative perspectives on disability. The participants provided justifications for their positions each statement, unveiling a coexistence understandings that encompassed both medical...

Resumo O artigo investigou concepções de deficiência 30 profissionais em formação ou exercício, 14 profissões da saúde, por meio entrevistas individuais. Foram elaboradas, um comitê especialistas, 34 afirmativas representativas perspectivas religiosa/moral, médica, social e afirmativa deficiência. Os entrevistados justificaram seu posicionamento diante cada afirmativa, revelando a coexistência compreensões referentes tanto às médicas quanto sociais Foi frequente o argumento que impedimentos...

Physiotherapists' varied interpretations of the International Classification Functioning and Health (ICF) biopsychosocial model underlying it can significantly influence its dissemination, assimilation, application. This study analyzed diverse discourses Brazilian physiotherapists engaged in teaching researching ICF. descriptive cross-sectional employed Q methodology to explore participants' viewpoints. Participants ranked statements about ICF into nine categories from "strongly disagree"...

Walking, often performed automatically, allows for concurrent tasks like carrying objects, but dual-tasks can be challenging the older adults. As previous search supports benefits of external focus (EF) over internal (IF) attention in motor tasks, this study investigated attentional effects on dual-task walking performance young and A total 84 healthy participants (42 adults, 23.02 ± 2.91 years; 42 years) were instructed to walk while a filled cup without spilling. Walking speed...

CONTEXTUALIZAÇÃO: A lombalgia é um conjunto de manifestações dolorosas que pode acarretar limitações em vários aspectos da vida indivíduo. O modelo Classificação Internacional Funcionalidade, Incapacidade e Saúde (CIF) proposto pela Organização Mundial (OMS) fornece uma estrutura para o entendimento funcionalidade incapacidade associadas aos estados saúde, possibilitando descrição significativa saúde CIF utiliza os termos capacidade desempenho se referir a distintos função diferenciar estado...

The objective of this study was to test the feasibility a treatment programme based on elements constraint-induced movement therapy (CIMT) encourage use affected arm child with obstetric brachial plexus injury (OBP), as well document clinical changes observed intervention. A 2-year-old female Erb's palsy had 14 weeks daily home-based 30-minute sessions planned according principles CIMT. assessed every 2 Toddler Arm Use Test. Test scores throughout intervention period demonstrated...

In cart-pole balancing, one moves a cart in 1 dimension so as to balance an attached inverted pendulum. We approached perception-action and learning this task from ecological perspective. This entailed identifying space of informational variables that balancers use they perform the demonstrating improve by traversing loci more useful variables. presented novel information space-including fractional derivatives pendulum angle (e.g., halfway between angular velocity)-as possible for balancing....

(2008). Effects of Strength Training Aided by Electrical Stimulation on Wrist Muscle Characteristics and Hand Function Children with Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy. Physical & Occupational Therapy In Pediatrics: Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 309-325.

A variety of definitions intelligence have been offered that are not exclusively human-centric. One, in particular, is taken as a starting point: end-directed behavior marked by the making meaningful distinctions made possible perception–action cycles. Specific examples examined for evidence three aspects kind agency embodied cycles, namely, prospectivity, retrospectivity, and flexibility. The chosen nicely layered but otherwise unremarkable. Nonetheless, they all an unexpected twist...

The literature demonstrates that the social participation of children with disabilities is influenced by both their functional skills repertoire and environmental factors. However, it not yet known whether effect limitations on minimized or enhanced facilitators barriers. This study aimed to test this hypothesis.To investigate moderating factors in relationship between mobility school adolescents cerebral palsy (CP).Participants were 102 elementary CP, aged 6 17 years, classified as levels...

Background: Environmental factors are essential for the characterization of human functioning and disability; however, shortage standardized instruments to assess environmental has limited design scientific investigations directed at identifying barriers facilitators social participation people with disabilities. Objectives : To translate Brazilian Portuguese, cross-culturally adapt, verify reliability an assessment questionnaire, entitled Craig Hospital Inventory Factors (CHIEF). Method The...

Pole balancing is a key task for probing the prospective control that organisms must engage in purposeful action. The temporal structure of pole-balancing behaviors will reflect on-line operation mechanisms needed to maintain an upright posture. In this study, signatures multifractality are sought and found time series vertical angle pole balanced on fingertip. Comparisons surrogate reveal multiplicative-cascade dynamics interactivity across scales. addition, simulations model generating...

CONTEXTUALIZAÇÃO: Faz-se necessária sistematização das evidências disponíveis sobre os efeitos da estimulação elétrica em pacientes hemiplégicos após o acidente vascular cerebral. OBJETIVO: Realizar uma revisão sistemática literatura referente aos eletroestimulação funcional para músculos do punho e dedos de adultos. MÉTODOS: Uma busca foi realizada nas bases dados Medline, Lilacs PEDro, no período fevereiro a março 2006, por trabalhos que documentassem intervenção características...

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the profile of changes in use upper extremity three children with hemiplegia submitted to an adapted protocol constraint-induced movement therapy (CIMT). METHODS: A single-subject design (ABA) was replicated aged 8 11 years old. Baseline phases (A1) and (A2) intervention phase (B) lasted 2 weeks each. During period, wore a splint on non-affected for 10 hours day were 3 during days. Training consisted activities affected extremity, gradually increasing complexity...

Introduction Physiotherapists' (PTs) assumptions about disability, for the most part unrecognized and unquestioned, may or not be aligned with vision of International Classification Functioning, Disability, Health (ICF). They can influence a wide range PT practices impact lives patients.Objective To investigate whether PTs at different stages their training rely on medical, social, biopsychosocial conceptions disability in line Disability (ICF).Methods A qualitative study three focus groups:...