Sentences with phrase «for upper limb»

He is the lead investigator of the NICHE and E-FIT Multicenter Trials on navigated brain stimulation for upper limb recovery after stroke.

For upper limb spasticity, three of the drug formulations — abobotulinumtoxinA, incobotulinumtoxinA, and onabotulinumtoxinA — are effective in reducing excess muscle tone and should be offered.

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Good for Motor Development on the knees and toes, and upper limbs.

The Pisa - Lund group generated artificial touch experiences with a bionic fingertip currently used for robotic upper limb neuroprostheses.

For example, in both the hobbit and the cretins, the top of the upper arm bone is unusually straight and untwisted, and both have relatively thick or robust limbs.

This includes funding for the DEKA Research and Development Corporation — a company founded by Segway inventor Dean Kamen — to develop an advanced robotic arm that would allow an upper - limb amputee to «pick up a raisin or a grape,» Kamen recalls.

This study demonstrates that artificial neural connections can compensate for interrupted descending pathways and promote volitional control of upper limb movement after damage of neural pathways such as spinal cord injury or stroke.

Worldwide, roughly 10,000 affected children nicknamed «thalidomide babies» were born with multiple defects, including the characteristic shortened upper limbs (a condition known as phocomelia, Greek for «seal limbs»), before the drug was discontinued in 1961 after four years on the market.

Regional pain syndrome is a chronic and highly debilitating condition that typically develops after a minor trauma, to the hand for example, and then spreads to other areas, such as the whole upper limb and sometimes even to the other side of the body.

NASA's upper atmosphere research satellite, for example, carries the British - made microwave limb sounder (MLS) which measures concentrations of chlorine monoxide — a chemical that plays a critical part in the destruction of ozone.

Kakuda et al (2012a) stated that both low - frequency rTMS (LF - rTMS) and intensive occupational therapy (OT) have been recently reported to be clinically beneficial for post-stroke patients with upper limb hemiparesis.

The authors concluded that the 15 - day inpatient rTMS plus OT protocol is a safe, feasible, and clinically useful neuro - rehabilitative intervention for post-stroke patients with upper limb hemiparesis.

For 1994 - 2009, using sea - level data, Willis et al. (2010) reconstructed an increase in the upper AMOC limb at 41 ° N by 2.8 Sv.

A total of seven police officers were involved in detaining Roxanne, arresting her, transporting her to the police station, searching her, restraining her upper and lower limbs, placing her in a holding cell, searching her a second time, and leaving her naked in the cell for several hours before she was permitted to leave the Ottawa police station.

Anita Jewitt Qualified: 2008 Made partner: 2015 Key cases: Recovered # 8.5 m for a child with quadriplegic cerebral palsy following the hospital's delay in expediting his delivery; recovered # 7.4 m for a child who sustained bilateral upper and lower limb amputations as a result of the delayed diagnosis of meningococcal septicaemia; recovered # 6m for a child who suffered from cerebral palsy as a result of the hospital's failure to carry out an earlier caesarean section.

In another key matter, the «very experienced» Sarah Coles acted in a claim for delay in diagnosis and treatment of sepsis resulting in lower and upper limb amputations, in which the firm obtained # 4.5 m in damages for the claimant.

Muscle strength was assessed using 1 repetition maximum (1 - RM) for upper and lower limbs.