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Mirror Therapy and Children with Hemiplegia by Your Therapy Source Posted Fri 18 Mar 2011 9:16am Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology published research on mirror therapy in children with hemiplegia. Mirror therapy involves the use of a mirror to provide the illusion that the paretic arm is functional. This type of therapy has been used with adults who have had a stroke. For this pilot study, 15 children with hemiplegia were randomly Read on »

Grip in Children with Congential Hemiplegia by Your Therapy Source Posted Tue 04 May 2010 6:22am Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair published research comparing predictive and reactive control of grip force in children with congenital hemiplegia. The precision grip of 12 children (ages 10-16 years) with hemiplegia were compared to a control group in two different conditions - predictive and reactive. For the predictive control, the child Read on »

Bracing and Hemiplegia by Your Therapy Source Posted Wed 16 Mar 2011 9:03pm Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology published research on the use of a wrist and thumb brace on bimanual activities in children with hemiplegia cerebral palsy. Twenty five children with spastic hemiplegia cerebral palsy (with mild to moderate hand deformity) performed bimanual activities wearing a brace and not wearing a brace Read on »

"The Cause of Happiness May Be the Cause of Misery." by Gretchen R. Patient Expert

Posted Sun 23 Aug 2009 10:08pm "There is no gift of nature, or effect of art, however beneficial to mankind, which, either by casual deviations, or foolish perversions, is not sometimes mischievous. Whatever may be the cause of happiness, may be made, likewise, the cause of misery. The medicine, which, rightly applied, has power to cure, has, when rashness or ignorance Read on »

Viruses May Cause Childhood Diabetes. Can they Cause Autism? by Kim S. Patient Expert

Posted Mon 09 Mar 2009 3:07pm

1 Comment By Kent Heckenlively, Esq. There’s an old joke about a man who goes to see a psychiatrist for his problems. The psychiatrist shows him a number of inkblots and every time the man claims to see women in various states... Read on »

Can stress cause hives and what else causes them? by Lucy J. Patient Expert

Posted Tue 04 Nov 2008 8:41pm in there. They are caused by hormones in the skin that lets liquid ooze out of your veins which gathers in little pockets under your skin. Frequently, the hives will change location. Often the cause of acute hives is very clear: You eat strawberries and soon you look like one. Some people develop the itchy little bumps after taking certain medications. Some causes are harder Read on »

Viruses May Cause Childhood Diabetes. Can they Cause Autism? by Kim S. Patient Expert

Posted Mon 09 Mar 2009 12:00am throws up his hands and says, “Doc, you’re the one showing me all the dirty pictures!” I feel a bit like that patient every time I read about viruses causing unsuspected... only imagine the pain parents have in dealing with children who have the disease. An article entitled “Study of Human Pancreas Links Virus to Cause of Type 1 Diabetes” (Science Read on »

Sciatica Causes - Uncovering The True Cause Of Sciatica Pain by Healthy Living .. Patient Expert

Posted Thu 09 Apr 2009 5:46pm

2 Comments Sciatica nerve pain can vary from irritating to debilitating. This article will show you how to discover both the causes of sciatica and the best treatments for sciatic pain that are available for you now. cause of sciatica Did you know that the sciatic nerve is the largest single nerve in the human body. Sciatica causes pain when the sciatic nerve becomes Read on »

If ANCA cause vasculitis, what causes ANCA? by Matt S. Posted Wed 17 Nov 2010 12:41pm vasculitis in mice and rats mediated by MPO ANCA. But as this issue is laid to rest, a new burning question has emerged in the field: if ANCA cause disease, what causes ANCA... compared to those from healthy controls. H3K27me3 is associated with the formation of heterochromatin, which is inaccessible to transcription and often causes gene silencing Read on »

The SCM Muscle in the Neck, it doesn’t Typically Cause Neck Pain, But can cause a Slew of Neck Related Problems! by Nav J. Patient Expert

Posted Mon 09 Nov 2009 10:00pm To start off, the SCM muscle is actually named the sternocleidomastoid muscle. This muscle is responsible for specific neck and head motions and is split into two parts. The interesting thing is that neither part sends pain to the neck, however, it can often cause jaw pain or pain that travels up into the head. Besides headache-like Read on »