Measuring Upper Extremity Activity of Children With Unilateral Cerebral Palsy Using Wrist-Worn Accelerometers: A Pilot Study
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Wrist-worn accelerometry can provide objective information on real-world habitual activity with both arms in children. Accelerometers are nonintrusive, easy to use, and well tolerated by children, and they allow prolonged monitoring of UE activity outside therapeutic contexts. Occupational therapists can use wrist-worn accelerometers as sensitive tools to assess asymmetries in UE use at baseline and as an outcome measure to assess the efficacy of behavioral interventions and carryover into real-world settings among children with UCP. Plain-Language Summary: This pilot study provides promising evi...
Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy - March 13, 2024 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Sudha Srinivasan Nidhi Amonkar Patrick D Kumavor Deborah Bubela Source Type: research
Spinal Cord Stimulation for Poststroke Hemiparesis: A Scoping Review
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Results indicate that SCS may provide an alternative means to improve motor function in the poststroke population. Plain-Language Summary: The results of this study show that spinal cord stimulation may provide an alternative way to improve motor function after stroke. Previous neuromodulation methods have targeted the impaired supraspinal circuitry after stroke. Although downregulated, spinal cord circuitry is largely intact and offers new possibilities for motor recovery.PMID:38477681 | DOI:10.5014/ajot.2024.050533 (Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy)
Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy - March 13, 2024 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Jonathan R Allen Swathi R Karri Chen Yang Mary Ellen Stoykov Source Type: research
The Breakfast and Dressing Conflict Task: Preliminary Evidence of Its Validity to Measure Online Self-Awareness After Acquired Brain Injury
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: These preliminary findings suggest that the BD Conflict Task is a valid tool to assess online SA in patients with ABI and provide further understanding of the online SA-offline SA interaction. Furthermore, the ADL Conflict-Monitoring Index may be a valid and easy-to-use monitoring measure in clinical settings. Plain-Language Summary: Patients with acquired brain injury (ABI) and reduced awareness of their cognitive deficits face problems performing activities of daily living (ADLs) and may show signs of unsafe behaviors. Being aware of one's own abilities involves anticipating problems before sta...
Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy - March 13, 2024 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Giorgia Ricchetti Alba Navarro-Egido Mar ía Rodríguez-Bailón Daniel Salazar-Fr ías Jose Antonio Merch án-Baeza Mar ía Patrocinio Ariza-Vega Mar ía J Funes Source Type: research
Measuring Upper Extremity Activity of Children With Unilateral Cerebral Palsy Using Wrist-Worn Accelerometers: A Pilot Study
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Wrist-worn accelerometry can provide objective information on real-world habitual activity with both arms in children. Accelerometers are nonintrusive, easy to use, and well tolerated by children, and they allow prolonged monitoring of UE activity outside therapeutic contexts. Occupational therapists can use wrist-worn accelerometers as sensitive tools to assess asymmetries in UE use at baseline and as an outcome measure to assess the efficacy of behavioral interventions and carryover into real-world settings among children with UCP. Plain-Language Summary: This pilot study provides promising evi...
Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy - March 13, 2024 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Sudha Srinivasan Nidhi Amonkar Patrick D Kumavor Deborah Bubela Source Type: research
Spinal Cord Stimulation for Poststroke Hemiparesis: A Scoping Review
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Results indicate that SCS may provide an alternative means to improve motor function in the poststroke population. Plain-Language Summary: The results of this study show that spinal cord stimulation may provide an alternative way to improve motor function after stroke. Previous neuromodulation methods have targeted the impaired supraspinal circuitry after stroke. Although downregulated, spinal cord circuitry is largely intact and offers new possibilities for motor recovery.PMID:38477681 | DOI:10.5014/ajot.2024.050533 (Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy)
Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy - March 13, 2024 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Jonathan R Allen Swathi R Karri Chen Yang Mary Ellen Stoykov Source Type: research
The Breakfast and Dressing Conflict Task: Preliminary Evidence of Its Validity to Measure Online Self-Awareness After Acquired Brain Injury
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: These preliminary findings suggest that the BD Conflict Task is a valid tool to assess online SA in patients with ABI and provide further understanding of the online SA-offline SA interaction. Furthermore, the ADL Conflict-Monitoring Index may be a valid and easy-to-use monitoring measure in clinical settings. Plain-Language Summary: Patients with acquired brain injury (ABI) and reduced awareness of their cognitive deficits face problems performing activities of daily living (ADLs) and may show signs of unsafe behaviors. Being aware of one's own abilities involves anticipating problems before sta...
Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy - March 13, 2024 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Giorgia Ricchetti Alba Navarro-Egido Mar ía Rodríguez-Bailón Daniel Salazar-Fr ías Jose Antonio Merch án-Baeza Mar ía Patrocinio Ariza-Vega Mar ía J Funes Source Type: research
Measuring Upper Extremity Activity of Children With Unilateral Cerebral Palsy Using Wrist-Worn Accelerometers: A Pilot Study
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Wrist-worn accelerometry can provide objective information on real-world habitual activity with both arms in children. Accelerometers are nonintrusive, easy to use, and well tolerated by children, and they allow prolonged monitoring of UE activity outside therapeutic contexts. Occupational therapists can use wrist-worn accelerometers as sensitive tools to assess asymmetries in UE use at baseline and as an outcome measure to assess the efficacy of behavioral interventions and carryover into real-world settings among children with UCP. Plain-Language Summary: This pilot study provides promising evi...
Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy - March 13, 2024 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Sudha Srinivasan Nidhi Amonkar Patrick D Kumavor Deborah Bubela Source Type: research
Spinal Cord Stimulation for Poststroke Hemiparesis: A Scoping Review
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Results indicate that SCS may provide an alternative means to improve motor function in the poststroke population. Plain-Language Summary: The results of this study show that spinal cord stimulation may provide an alternative way to improve motor function after stroke. Previous neuromodulation methods have targeted the impaired supraspinal circuitry after stroke. Although downregulated, spinal cord circuitry is largely intact and offers new possibilities for motor recovery.PMID:38477681 | DOI:10.5014/ajot.2024.050533 (Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy)
Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy - March 13, 2024 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Jonathan R Allen Swathi R Karri Chen Yang Mary Ellen Stoykov Source Type: research
The Breakfast and Dressing Conflict Task: Preliminary Evidence of Its Validity to Measure Online Self-Awareness After Acquired Brain Injury
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: These preliminary findings suggest that the BD Conflict Task is a valid tool to assess online SA in patients with ABI and provide further understanding of the online SA-offline SA interaction. Furthermore, the ADL Conflict-Monitoring Index may be a valid and easy-to-use monitoring measure in clinical settings. Plain-Language Summary: Patients with acquired brain injury (ABI) and reduced awareness of their cognitive deficits face problems performing activities of daily living (ADLs) and may show signs of unsafe behaviors. Being aware of one's own abilities involves anticipating problems before sta...
Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy - March 13, 2024 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Giorgia Ricchetti Alba Navarro-Egido Mar ía Rodríguez-Bailón Daniel Salazar-Fr ías Jose Antonio Merch án-Baeza Mar ía Patrocinio Ariza-Vega Mar ía J Funes Source Type: research
Measuring Upper Extremity Activity of Children With Unilateral Cerebral Palsy Using Wrist-Worn Accelerometers: A Pilot Study
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Wrist-worn accelerometry can provide objective information on real-world habitual activity with both arms in children. Accelerometers are nonintrusive, easy to use, and well tolerated by children, and they allow prolonged monitoring of UE activity outside therapeutic contexts. Occupational therapists can use wrist-worn accelerometers as sensitive tools to assess asymmetries in UE use at baseline and as an outcome measure to assess the efficacy of behavioral interventions and carryover into real-world settings among children with UCP. Plain-Language Summary: This pilot study provides promising evi...
Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy - March 13, 2024 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Sudha Srinivasan Nidhi Amonkar Patrick D Kumavor Deborah Bubela Source Type: research
Spinal Cord Stimulation for Poststroke Hemiparesis: A Scoping Review
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Results indicate that SCS may provide an alternative means to improve motor function in the poststroke population. Plain-Language Summary: The results of this study show that spinal cord stimulation may provide an alternative way to improve motor function after stroke. Previous neuromodulation methods have targeted the impaired supraspinal circuitry after stroke. Although downregulated, spinal cord circuitry is largely intact and offers new possibilities for motor recovery.PMID:38477681 | DOI:10.5014/ajot.2024.050533 (Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy)
Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy - March 13, 2024 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Jonathan R Allen Swathi R Karri Chen Yang Mary Ellen Stoykov Source Type: research
The Breakfast and Dressing Conflict Task: Preliminary Evidence of Its Validity to Measure Online Self-Awareness After Acquired Brain Injury
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: These preliminary findings suggest that the BD Conflict Task is a valid tool to assess online SA in patients with ABI and provide further understanding of the online SA-offline SA interaction. Furthermore, the ADL Conflict-Monitoring Index may be a valid and easy-to-use monitoring measure in clinical settings. Plain-Language Summary: Patients with acquired brain injury (ABI) and reduced awareness of their cognitive deficits face problems performing activities of daily living (ADLs) and may show signs of unsafe behaviors. Being aware of one's own abilities involves anticipating problems before sta...
Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy - March 13, 2024 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Giorgia Ricchetti Alba Navarro-Egido Mar ía Rodríguez-Bailón Daniel Salazar-Fr ías Jose Antonio Merch án-Baeza Mar ía Patrocinio Ariza-Vega Mar ía J Funes Source Type: research
Continuing Professional Development in Response to COVID-19: Knowledge Mobilization for Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy via a Curated Web Site
CONCLUSIONS: The Web site design features assisted participants in preparing for redeployment and patient care. Features to encourage self-directed learning, such as the grouping of relevant topics and self-check quizzes, can enhance the user experience.PMID:38465312 | PMC:PMC10919364 | DOI:10.3138/ptc-2021-0100 (Source: Physiotherapy Canada)
Source: Physiotherapy Canada - March 11, 2024 Category: Physiotherapy Authors: Jaimie Coleman Sylvia Langlois Sharon Switzer-McIntyre Maria Mylopoulos Maria Tassone Anna Vehter Source Type: research
Characterizing Heart Rate Response During Upper Extremity Repetitive Task Practice in Chronic Stroke
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: To maximize aerobic intensity during poststroke RTP, therapists should include gross motor tasks trained in standing with targets at or above shoulder height. Plain-Language Summary: The study characterizes heart rate response in stroke rehabilitation and identifies factors that predict a higher aerobic intensity during upper extremity repetitive task practice. Certain task characteristics were more likely to produce an aerobic response, including gross motor, targets at or above the shoulder, and a standing position. Occupational therapists should include gross motor tasks trained in standing wi...
Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy - March 11, 2024 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Sara Davidson Andrea Bischof-Bockbrader Eric Zimmerman Anson B Rosenfeldt Jay L Alberts Susan M Linder Source Type: research
Continuing Professional Development in Response to COVID-19: Knowledge Mobilization for Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy via a Curated Web Site
CONCLUSIONS: The Web site design features assisted participants in preparing for redeployment and patient care. Features to encourage self-directed learning, such as the grouping of relevant topics and self-check quizzes, can enhance the user experience.PMID:38465312 | PMC:PMC10919364 | DOI:10.3138/ptc-2021-0100 (Source: Physiotherapy Canada)
Source: Physiotherapy Canada - March 11, 2024 Category: Physiotherapy Authors: Jaimie Coleman Sylvia Langlois Sharon Switzer-McIntyre Maria Mylopoulos Maria Tassone Anna Vehter Source Type: research
