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Causes Of Hemiplegia - Articles
Mirror Therapy and Children with Hemiplegia
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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
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Grip in Children with Congential Hemiplegia
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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
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Bracing and Hemiplegia
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Your Therapy Source
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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
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Bimanual Versus Constraint Therapy in Hemiplegia
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Fri 08 Jul 2011 8:25am
Research was conducted comparing two groups of children ranging from 3.5 to 10 years old (42 in total) with hemiplegia. The children were randomly assigned to receive 90 hours of constraint induced movement therapy (CIMT) or 90 hours of bimanual training (HABIT). Following the training, both the CIMT and HABIT resulted in improved hand function
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Use of Thumb Splint in Children with Hemiplegia
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Mon 12 Dec 2011 9:58am
Clinical Rehabilitation published research on the functional abilities of 7 children (ages 2-7) with unilateral cerebral palsy who used a neoprene thumb opponens splint (McKie splint). The children were followed for 4 months - about one month baseline, 2 months intervention and one month follow up. Goal attainment scaling and visual analog scal ...
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"The Cause of Happiness May Be the Cause of Misery."
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Gretchen R.
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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
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Can stress cause hives and what else causes them?
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Lucy J.
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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
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Viruses May Cause Childhood Diabetes. Can they Cause Autism?
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Kim S.
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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
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Sciatica Causes - Uncovering The True Cause Of Sciatica Pain
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Healthy Living ..
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Thu 09 Apr 2009 5:46pm
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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
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