Sentences with phrase «of voluntary movement»

Examples of voluntary movements are making the effort to reach for a smart phone or step off a curb.

In most children this is an area of voluntary movement, but for those children with special needs this is not so clearly defined.

Quadriplegia is the involuntary loss of use of a person's upper and lower extremities or the loss of voluntary movement of his or her body below the neck.

TORONTO, October 7, 2014 — MyndMove, a breakthrough medical therapy that significantly improves recovery of voluntary movement in patients with arm and hand paralysis following stroke or spinal cord injury (SCI), will be accessible to more Ontarians with the assistance of a unique program at MaRS Discovery District.

MyndMove, a breakthrough medical therapy that significantly improves recovery of voluntary movement in patients with arm and hand paralysis following stroke or spinal cord injury (SCI), will be accessible to more Ontarians with the assistance of a unique program at MaRS Discovery District.

«This is the very first time that someone with complete, chronic motor paralysis has demonstrated any kind of voluntary movement,» says Grégoire Courtine, a neuroscientist at the University of Zurich in Switzerland.

Investigation of movement patterns produced by different patient groups and healthy adults provides a window into the brain with respect to the control of voluntary movement.

The function of controlling voluntary movement and sensory processing is distributed across a wide set of brain regions including the neocortex, the cerebellum, the brain stem and the spinal cord, which are all richly activated during any aspect of voluntary movement and sensory perception.

Diverse approaches such as multisensory integration searches, psychophysics of perception of gravitational movements, control of eye movements, interlimb coordination, muscle synergies, and locomotor rhythms are considered for the generation of voluntary movement.

According to the Cerebral Palsy Alliance, symptoms can range from a weakness in one hand ormuscle spasms to almost a complete lack of voluntary movement.

While these all manifest differently, Alzheimer's with loss of memory and other cognitive changes, Parkinson's with loss of voluntary movement and resting tremor and Huntington's with involuntary movements, they all share one pathologic similarity.

«We have uncovered a fundamentally new intervention strategy that can dramatically affect recovery of voluntary movement in individuals with complete paralysis even years after injury,» said Susan Harkema, Ph.D., Owsley Brown Frazier Chair in Clinical Rehabilitation Research at the University of Louisville, rehabilitation research director at KSCIRC, Frazier Rehab Institute, director of the Reeve Foundation's NeuroRecovery Network and primary author of The Lancet article.

A: There are several neurological conditions that manifest themselves with hind end weakness or paresis (i.e. partial loss of voluntary movement or impaired movement).

Symptoms of a spinal cord injury include pain or stinging in the neck, head, or back, loss of sensation in the extremities, loss of voluntary movement, incontinence, and difficulty breathing.