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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Guido K W Frank, Joel J Stoddard, Tiffany Brown, Josh Gowin, Walter H Kaye
OBJECTIVE: This study used machine learning methods to analyze data on treatment outcomes from individuals with anorexia nervosa admitted to a specialized eating disorders treatment program. METHODS: Of 368 individuals with anorexia nervosa (209 adolescents and 159 adults), 160 individuals had data available for a 6-month follow-up analysis. Participants were treated in a 6-day-per-week partial-hospital program. Participants were assessed for eating disorder-specific and non-specific psychopathology...
April 12, 2024: International Journal of Eating Disorders
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REVIEW
Abdulmajeed Alotaibi, Alaa Ibrahim, Raafat Ahmed, Turki Abualait
The efficiency of partial body weight-supported treadmill training (PBWSTT) for treating various conditions in children and adolescents with cerebral palsy (CP) in diverse contexts of rehabilitation, households, or schools is unknown. The major objective of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to analyze the effectiveness of PBWSTT on various outcomes in different contexts among children and adolescents with CP. We incorporated full-text, randomized controlled trial studies that specifically assessed the effects of PBWSTT walking, motor function, stride, balance, and endurance in children and adolescents aged 3 to 18 years with CP...
December 20, 2023: Children
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Tao Ma, Xun Xu, Zhiwei Chai, Teng Wang, Xiantao Shen, Tao Sun
Patients with tibial fractures are usually advised to follow a partial weight-bearing gait rehabilitation program after surgery to promote bone healing and lower limb functional recovery. Currently, the biofeedback devices used for gait rehabilitation training in fracture patients use ground reaction force (GRF) as the indicator of tibial load. However, an increasing body of research has shown that monitoring GRF alone cannot objectively reflect the load on the lower limb bones during human movement. In this study, a novel biofeedback system was developed utilizing inertial measurement units and custom instrumented insoles...
August 14, 2023: IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jongbum Kim, Seunghue Oh, Yongjin Jo, James Hyungsup Moon, Jonghyun Kim
INTRODUCTION: Body weight support overground walking training (BWSOWT) is widely used in gait rehabilitation. However, existing systems require large workspace, complex structure, and substantial installation cost for the actuator, which make those systems inappropriate for the clinical environment. For wide clinical use, the proposed system is based on a self-paced treadmill, and uses an optimized body weight support with frame-based two-wire mechanism. METHOD: The Interactive treadmill was used to mimic overground walking...
2023: Frontiers in Neurorobotics
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RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL
Orly Ben-Yacov, Anastasia Godneva, Michal Rein, Smadar Shilo, Maya Lotan-Pompan, Adina Weinberger, Eran Segal
OBJECTIVE: To explore the interplay between dietary modifications, microbiome composition and host metabolic responses in a dietary intervention setting of a personalised postprandial-targeting (PPT) diet versus a Mediterranean (MED) diet in pre-diabetes. DESIGN: In a 6-month dietary intervention, adults with pre-diabetes were randomly assigned to follow an MED or PPT diet (based on a machine-learning algorithm for predicting postprandial glucose responses). Data collected at baseline and 6 months from 200 participants who completed the intervention included: dietary data from self-recorded logging using a smartphone application, gut microbiome data from shotgun metagenomics sequencing of faecal samples, and clinical data from continuous glucose monitoring, blood biomarkers and anthropometrics...
August 2023: Gut
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Leanne Sakzewski, Dayna Pool, Ellen Armstrong, Sarah Elizabeth Reedman, Roslyn N Boyd, Catherine Elliott, Iona Novak, Stewart Trost, Robert S Ware, Tracy Comans, Rachel Toovey, Mark D Peterson, Megan Kentish, Sean Horan, Jane Valentine, Sian Williams
INTRODUCTION: For children with cerebral palsy (CP), who are marginally ambulant, gross motor capacity peaks between 6 and 7 years of age with a subsequent clinical decline, impacting their ability to engage in physical activity. Active Strides-CP is a novel package of physiotherapy targeting body functions, activity and participation outcomes for children with bilateral CP. This study will compare Active Strides-CP to usual care in a multisite randomised waitlist-controlled trial. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: 150 children with bilateral CP (5-15 years), classified in Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS) levels III and IV will be stratified (GMFCS III vs IV, age 5-10 years; 11-15 years and trial site) and randomised to receive either (1) 8 weeks of Active Strides-CP two times/week for 1...
March 29, 2023: BMJ Open
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Tatiana D Luna, Victor Santamaria, Sunil K Agrawal
Squatting is a dynamic task that is often done for strengthening and improving balance. Most squat training systems partially support body weight. However, one of the benefits of a squat exercise is efficiently distributing the body weight among the feet while maintaining stability. Several studies have shown how squatting and redistributing body weight among the feet can improve balance. The goals of this study are: (i) to show a robotic device that is transparent for studying human behavior during the squatting task, (ii) to investigate how ground reaction forces can be altered among the feet by applying a pelvic force during squatting...
July 2022: IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics: [proceedings]
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
S R Catford, J Halliday, S Lewis, M K O'Bryan, D J Handelsman, R J Hart, J McBain, L Rombauts, D J Amor, R Saffery, R I McLachlan
STUDY QUESTION: Is the metabolic health of men conceived using ICSI different to that of IVF and spontaneously conceived (SC) men? SUMMARY ANSWER: ICSI-conceived men aged 18-24 years, compared with SC controls, showed differences in some metabolic parameters including higher resting diastolic blood pressure (BP) and homeostasis model assessment for insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) scores, although the metabolic parameters of ICSI- and IVF-conceived singleton men were more comparable...
November 24, 2022: Human Reproduction
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Dawn Swancutt, Mark Tarrant, Wendy Ingram, Sarah Baldrey, Lorna Burns, Richard Byng, Raff Calitri, Siobhan Creanor, Sarah Dean, Lucy Evans, Laura Gill, Elizabeth Goodwin, Lily Hawkins, Chris Hayward, Sarah Hind, Laura Hollands, Joanne Hosking, Jenny Lloyd, Shokraneh Moghadam, Helen Neilens, Mary O'Kane, Steve Perry, Rod Sheaff, Anne Spencer, Adrian Taylor, Thomas Ward, Ross Watkins, John Wilding, Jonathan Pinkney
BACKGROUND: Approximately 15 million people in the UK live with obesity, around 5 million of whom have severe obesity (body mass index (BMI) ≥35kg/m2 ). Having severe obesity markedly compromises health, well-being and quality of life, and substantially reduces life expectancy. These adverse outcomes are prevented or ameliorated by weight loss, for which sustained behavioural change is the cornerstone of treatment. Although NHS specialist 'Tier 3' Weight Management Services (T3WMS) support people with severe obesity, using individual and group-based treatment, the current evidence on optimal intervention design and outcomes is limited...
September 10, 2022: Pilot and Feasibility Studies
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MULTICENTER STUDY
Jacopo Troisi, Martina Lombardi, Giovanni Scala, Pierpaolo Cavallo, Rennae S Tayler, Steven J K Symes, Sean M Richards, David C Adair, Alessio Fasano, Lesley M McCowan, Maurizio Guida
BACKGROUND: Historically, noninvasive techniques are only able to identify chromosomal anomalies that accounted for <50% of all congenital defects; the other congenital defects are diagnosed via ultrasound evaluations in the later stages of pregnancy. Metabolomic analysis may provide an important improvement, potentially addressing the need for novel noninvasive and multicomprehensive early prenatal screening tools. A growing body of evidence outlines notable metabolic alterations in different biofluids derived from pregnant women carrying fetuses with malformations, suggesting that such an approach may allow the discovery of biomarkers common to most fetal malformations...
March 2023: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
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RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL
Mariusz Ozimek, Tadeusz Ambroży, Tatiana Krasavina, Irina Lazareva, Christina Popova, Łukasz Rydzik, Vitaly Rybakov, Konstantin Gurevich, Stefane Dias, Brian Binkley, Rokaya Mikhailenko, Alexander Tsymbal, Emilian Zadarko, Victoria Zaborova
The purpose of this investigation was to assess the acute effects of partial range of motion (pROM) exercises, on the accuracy of soccer penalty kicks on goal. This method limits the joint from moving through the complete length of a motion, creates an occlusion effect, and thus causes the type 1 muscle fibers to work anaerobically. Thirty-six soccer players, with 5-8 years of soccer playing experience, were pretested for accuracy then retested (rtt = 0.92) and divided into random groups from the Associação Banco do Brasil Futebol Clube-Group A, Paraná Futebol Clube-Group P, and Coritiba Futebol Clube-Group C...
2022: BioMed Research International
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Song-Quan Ong, Gomesh Nair, Umi Kalsom Yusof, Hamdan Ahmad
BACKGROUND: Public community engagement is crucial for mosquito surveillance programs. To support community participation, one of the approaches is assisting the public in recognizing the mosquitoes that carry pathogens. Therefore, this study aims to build an automatic recognition system to identify mosquitos at the public community level. We construct a customized image dataset consisting of three mosquito species in either damaged or un-damaged body conditions. To distinguish the mosquito in harsh conditions, we explore two state-of-the-art deep learning (DL) architectures: (i) a freezing convolutional base, with partial trainable weights, and (ii) training the entire model with most of the trainable weights...
October 2022: Pest Management Science
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RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL
Emil Andersen, Christian R Juhl, Emma T Kjøller, Julie R Lundgren, Charlotte Janus, Yasmin Dehestani, Marte Saupstad, Lars R Ingerslev, Olivia M Duun, Simon B K Jensen, Jens J Holst, Bente M Stallknecht, Sten Madsbad, Signe S Torekov, Romain Barrès
STUDY QUESTION: Does diet-induced weight loss improve semen parameters, and are these possible improvements maintained with sustained weight loss? SUMMARY ANSWER: An 8-week low-calorie diet-induced weight loss was associated with improved sperm concentration and sperm count, which were maintained after 1 year in men who maintained weight loss. WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY: Obesity is associated with impaired semen quality. Weight loss improves metabolic health in obesity, but there is a lack of knowledge on the acute and long-term effects of weight loss on semen parameters...
June 30, 2022: Human Reproduction
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Alexandra Lepoura, Sofia Lampropoulou, Antonis Galanos, Marianna Papadopoulou, Vasiliki Sakellari
INTRODUCTION: A great heterogeneity characterises the paediatric population with ataxia, which has been studied poorly. The lack of postural control and coordination, in addition with features of the 'ataxic' gait are linked with functional limitations. Studies on physiotherapy interventions for children with ataxia are highly needed for identifying optimal training strategies for improving motor and functional related skills. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: A stratified randomised control clinical trial of a 4-week functional partial body weight support treadmill training, (5 days/week 45 min/day) and 2-month follow-up period will be applied in children with ataxia, aged 8-18 years old with Gross Motor Function Classification System II-IV...
March 25, 2022: BMJ Open
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RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL
Rasha A Mohamed, El Sayed H Mohamed, Mohamed A Basiouny, Ibrahim M Hamoda, El Sayed M Hanoura, Elbadawy I Elhenedi, Abd El Aziz A Sherief
Background and Objectives : Children with juvenile myasthenia gravis have a variety of symptoms, ranging from isolated intermittent ocular complaints to overall muscle weakness with or without respiratory insufficiency. This study aimed to investigate the efficacy of a specialized physical therapy with or without partial body weight supported treadmill training on pulmonary functional tests, neuromuscular functions, and quality of life. Materials and Methods : Thirty children, ranging in age from 13 to 16 years, were distributed randomly into two study groups (A or B)...
March 2, 2022: Medicina
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MULTICENTER STUDY
Lucas M Fleuren, Tariq A Dam, Michele Tonutti, Daan P de Bruin, Robbert C A Lalisang, Diederik Gommers, Olaf L Cremer, Rob J Bosman, Sander Rigter, Evert-Jan Wils, Tim Frenzel, Dave A Dongelmans, Remko de Jong, Marco Peters, Marlijn J A Kamps, Dharmanand Ramnarain, Ralph Nowitzky, Fleur G C A Nooteboom, Wouter de Ruijter, Louise C Urlings-Strop, Ellen G M Smit, D Jannet Mehagnoul-Schipper, Tom Dormans, Cornelis P C de Jager, Stefaan H A Hendriks, Sefanja Achterberg, Evelien Oostdijk, Auke C Reidinga, Barbara Festen-Spanjer, Gert B Brunnekreef, Alexander D Cornet, Walter van den Tempel, Age D Boelens, Peter Koetsier, Judith Lens, Harald J Faber, A Karakus, Robert Entjes, Paul de Jong, Thijs C D Rettig, Sesmu Arbous, Sebastiaan J J Vonk, Mattia Fornasa, Tomas Machado, Taco Houwert, Hidde Hovenkamp, Roberto Noorduijn Londono, Davide Quintarelli, Martijn G Scholtemeijer, Aletta A de Beer, Giovanni Cinà, Adam Kantorik, Tom de Ruijter, Willem E Herter, Martijn Beudel, Armand R J Girbes, Mark Hoogendoorn, Patrick J Thoral, Paul W G Elbers
INTRODUCTION: Determining the optimal timing for extubation can be challenging in the intensive care. In this study, we aim to identify predictors for extubation failure in critically ill patients with COVID-19. METHODS: We used highly granular data from 3464 adult critically ill COVID patients in the multicenter Dutch Data Warehouse, including demographics, clinical observations, medications, fluid balance, laboratory values, vital signs, and data from life support devices...
December 27, 2021: Critical Care: the Official Journal of the Critical Care Forum
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jiancheng Charles Ji, Yufeng Wang, Guoqing Zhang, Yuanyuan Lin, Guoxiang Wang
In response to the ever-increasing demand of lower limb rehabilitation, this paper presents a novel robot-assisted gait trainer (RGT) to assist the elderly and the pediatric patients with neurological impairments in the lower limb rehabilitation training (LLRT). The RGT provides three active degrees of freedom (DoF) to both legs that are used to implement the gait cycle in such a way that the natural gait is not significantly affected. The robot consists of (i) the partial body weight support (PBWS) system to assist patients in sit-to-stand transfer via the precision linear rail system and (ii) the bipedal end-effector (BE) to control the motions of lower limbs via two mechanical arms...
2021: Journal of Healthcare Engineering
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RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL
Brittany L Perrine, Kimberly Monzón, Lauren M Weber, LesLee K Funderburk
PURPOSE: Physically active adults have experienced training benefits from fish oil-derived omega-3 fatty acid (FO n3), which may also be of benefit to singers. The purpose of this research study was to determine if self-reported vocal adaptations and body composition changes occur in singers following FO n3 supplementation in conjunction with a singer's normal training regimen. METHOD: Twenty college students, currently enrolled in vocal lessons at a university, were randomized to receive either 3...
December 13, 2021: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research: JSLHR
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Alexis Brinkemper, Mirko Aach, Dennis Grasmücke, Birger Jettkant, Thomas Rosteius, Marcel Dudda, Emre Yilmaz, Thomas Armin Schildhauer
In recent years robotic devices became part of rehabilitation offers for patients suffering from Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) and other diseases. Most scientific publications about such devices focus on functional outcome. The aim of this study was to verify whether an improvement in physiological gait can be demonstrated in addition to the functional parameters after treatment with neurological controlled HAL® Robot Suit. Fifteen subjects with acute (<12 months since injury, n = 5) or chronic (>12 months since injury, n = 10) incomplete paraplegia (AIS B, n = 0/AIS C, n = 2/AIS D, n = 8) or complete paraplegia (AIS A, n = 5) with zones of partial preservation participated...
2021: Frontiers in Neurorobotics
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Larissa Tavares Aguiar, Sylvie Nadeau, Luci Fuscaldi Teixeira-Salmela, Maria Teresa Ferreira Reis, Paula da Cruz Peniche, Christina Danielli Coelho de Morais Faria
PURPOSE: To describe the perspectives, satisfaction, and self-efficacy towards aerobic exercise and to investigate the barriers to aerobic exercise identified by individuals with stroke in a developing country. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional study was performed with 15 individuals (55 ± 12 years, 69 ± 77 months post-stroke), who received a 12-week vigorous intensity aerobic treadmill training (three 30-min sessions/week)...
June 2022: Disability and Rehabilitation
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