Sentences with phrase «with mobility limitations»

Dr. Bonita Bergin — who in 1975 invented the concept of the service dog to assist people with mobility limitations, at which point she founded Canine Companions for Independence (CCI), the first non-profit organization to train and place service dogs — discusses where and how she got the inspiration for the service dog idea, including that, at this point, she had no background with dogs and how most friends and colleagues initially made it clear they thought this was a nutty notion.

Being a former Special Education teacher, Dr. Bergin wanted to expand the ways people with mobility limitations could receive needed help.

«Integrating aerobic training into rehabilitation is very important, and for patients with mobility limitations, exercise can be modified so they can still experience increases in their fitness levels,» Oberlin said.

«The opportunity to use this high - tech innovation to improve the quality of life among people with mobility limitations is very exciting.»

Not exact matches

With no leg mobility, severely impaired hand functions and barely able to move my head from side to side, my limitations were obvious.

Poor oral and dental hygiene because of limitations in lingual mobility or habitual incorrect tongue posture usually accompany messy eating habits, with food debris remaining on teeth and lips, and causing dental caries.

Front Squat Style: A lot of lifters who have a bodybuilding - style background have a difficult time with the rack position due to mobility limitations, meathead tradition, or just plain comfort.

Promoting optimal mobility, physical activity and overall health and wellness; Preventing disease, injury, and disability; Managing acute and chronic conditions, activity limitations, and participation restrictions; Improving and maintaining optimal functional independence and physical performance; Rehabilitating injury and the effects of disease or disability with therapeutic exercise programs and other interventions; and Educating and planning maintenance and support programs to prevent re-occurrence, re-injury or functional decline.

Older adults can become malnourished due to a variety of changes; taste receptors dull with aging; limitations in mobility make cooking more cumbersome, leading to canned soup or cereal as a «main»; losses of partners and peers lead to social circle diminishment and depression, making one's world smaller and less interesting.

In these instances, it's important to understand cause and effect, because rounding the lower back or some people call it the «butt wink» is often associated with physical limitations and mobility issues.

The exercises in this course can be applied to clients of various ability levels, from seniors with strength and / or mobility limitations to athletes seeking to increase total body conditioning and coordination.

Shortening of soft - tissues, adhesions and inhibition in movement is increased dependent upon % of tension (vs. current capacity), restricted range of motion movements coupled with current mobility limitations.

Examples include animals that assist with visual impairments, deafness, seizures and mobility limitations.

TLCAD's At Ease program is designed to give back and help heal our nation's heroes by placing custom trained service dogs to wounded service members and veterans with PTSD, TBI and / or mobility limitations.

They provide highly competent service dogs to recipients to assist with physical limitations, mobility issues, various medical alert services as well as many other issues.

Special needs dogs include senior dogs with physical limitations such as difficulty getting up and down or other mobility issues, blindness, deafness, canine cognitive disorder (canine senility), urinary or fecal incontinence.

Susannah is passionate about training these dogs to work beside individuals with different types of needs such as post-traumatic stress or mobility limitations.

It also describes disability according to ten types: seeing, hearing, mobility, flexibility, dexterity, pain - related, learning, developmental, mental health - related, and memory; the severity of the disability: mild, moderate, severe, and very severe; and the impairment or limitations due to the length of time it is experienced, as well as limitation in daily activities: Statistics Canada, The Canadian Survey on Disability, 2012 - A Profile of Persons with Disabilities aged 15 years or older, 2012 [Statistics Canada 2012 Profile of Disability], online, Statistics Canada http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/89-654-x/89-654-x2015001-eng.htm#a0.

COMMUNITY ACTION SPECIAL NEEDS ASSISTANCE, Susanville, CA (11/2009 to 11/2010) Special Needs Assistant • Assessed students to understand their limitations and special needs • Provided physical care such as support with mobility, partaking food and handling their toileting needs • Assisted students in learning concepts by providing them with additional instructional support • Created materials to help students understand difficult concepts • Provided support by counseling them and ensuring their physical and emotional health is maintained

They may utilize tools and activities to increase strength and mobility for injured patients or work closely with patients who have social or emotional limitations to provide a greater sense of independence by using public transportation and cooking meals.

The objectives of this mental health outreach service were to provide assessment and treatment to a vulnerable group of families who could not access mental health services, 10 to liaise with appropriate agencies, and to train hostel staff.24 The evaluation of this service was faced with constraints and limitations, particularly the mobility and engagement of the population and the resulting sample size, 11 the major environmental changes in the lives of these families during their contact with the service, hence their potentially confounding effect, and the need for an eclectic mental health intervention to meet the needs of children and their parents.