Sentences with phrase «including upper limb»

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My son was born with an upper limb difference, which is a long story, but basically, at birth, all of the fingers, including his thumb, on his left hand were fused together, with missing bones.

The review identified 71 articles, including a total of 214 patients, describing less frequently seen bite and sting injuries of the upper limb (hand and arm).

As they progressed, patients graduated from virtual reality to more challenging equipment that required more control over their posture, balance and ability to use their upper limbs, including two commercially available walking devices used in some physical therapy centers in the U.S.: the ZeroG and the Lokomat.

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.

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.

A total of 14 post-stroke patients with spastic upper limb hemiparesis (mean age of 54.9 + / - 9.2 years, time after onset: 87.1 + / - 48.2 months, + / - SD) were included in this study.

The studies included investigated the concurrent effects of rTMS on the excitability of cortico - spinal pathways and upper - limb motor function in adults after stroke.

These so - called cohesinopathies (e.g. Roberts syndrome and Cornelia de Lange syndrome) are congenital birth defects with widely ranging symptoms, which usually include craniofacial / upper limb deformities as well as mental retardation.

According to the Health and Safety Executive, more than 10 million working days were lost last year to musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), including back pain and upper limb disorders, and 80 per cent of adults develop lower back pain at some point in their lives.

Regions of interest are defined by the analytical programme, and include different corporeal districts: total body, trunk, head, pelvic, upper limbs, lower limbs, android and gynoid region.