Clinical profile and predictors of recurrence of first episode of unprovoked seizures in children of the age group 1 month to 12 years by Ambili Susan Jacob, Urmila K.V

“…Significant predictors of recurrence included seizures occurring during sleep, a history of neurological insults, developmental delay or intellectual disability, and abnormal EEG or neuroimaging findings. …”
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Biomaterial Applications in Cell-Based Therapy in Experimental Stroke by Ligia S. B. Boisserand, Tomonobu Kodama, Jérémie Papassin, Rachel Auzely, Anaïck Moisan, Claire Rome, Olivier Detante

“…Stroke is an important health issue corresponding to the second cause of mortality and first cause of severe disability with no effective treatments after the first hours of onset. …”
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Canadian Occupational Performance Measure: Benefits and Limitations Highlighted Using the Delphi Method and Principal Component Analysis by Jean-Michel Caire, Sabrina Maurel-Techene, Thierry Letellier, Margit Heiske, Sarah Warren, Arnaud Schabaille, Florent Destruhaut

“…The COPM was clearly identified as a tool that supports occupational therapy clinical reasoning, facilitates team decision-making for care pathways, and enables people with disabilities and health conditions to make decisions for their care. …”
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Skin Biophysical Characteristics in Patients with Keratoconus: A Controlled Study by Reza M. Robati, Bahram Einollahi, Hoda Einollahi, Shima Younespour, Shahed Fadaifard

“…Keratoconus is a relatively common corneal disease causing significant visual disability. Individuals with connective tissue disorders that affect the skin such as Marfan’s syndrome and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome or patients with atopic dermatitis show an increased prevalence of keratoconus. …”
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Potential Role of the Inflammasome-Derived Inflammatory Cytokines in Pulmonary Fibrosis by Rupa Biswas, Melisa Bunderson-Schelvan, Andrij Holian

“…Pulmonary fibrosis is a progressive, disabling disease with mortality rates that appear to be increasing in the western population, including the USA. …”
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Syngap1 promotes cognitive function through regulation of cortical sensorimotor dynamics by Thomas Vaissiere, Sheldon D. Michaelson, Thomas Creson, Jessie Goins, Daniel Fürth, Diana Balazsfi, Camilo Rojas, Randall Golovin, Konstantinos Meletis, Courtney A. Miller, Daniel O’Connor, Lorenzo Fontolan, Gavin Rumbaugh

“…Here, we demonstrate in mice that expression of the autism/intellectual disability gene, Syngap1, in cortical excitatory neurons is required for the formation of somatomotor networks that promote SMI-mediated perception. …”
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Mechanism and Design Analysis of Articulated Ankle Foot Orthoses for Drop-Foot by Morshed Alam, Imtiaz Ahmed Choudhury, Azuddin Bin Mamat

“…Robotic technologies are being employed increasingly in the treatment of lower limb disabilities. Individuals suffering from stroke and other neurological disorders often experience inadequate dorsiflexion during swing phase of the gait cycle due to dorsiflexor muscle weakness. …”
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The Case for Musical Instrument Training in Cerebral Palsy for Neurorehabilitation by Ana Alves-Pinto, Varvara Turova, Tobias Blumenstein, Renée Lampe

“…Several of these changes correlate with behavioral measures of motor and sensory disability. It is now widely acknowledged that management of sensory deficits is relevant for rehabilitation in CP. …”
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Neurofibromatosis Type 1 Complicated by Atypical Coarctation of the Thoracic Aorta by Masato Kimura, Shuhei Kakizaki, Kengo Kawano, Shinichi Sato, Shigeo Kure

“…Clinical features are café-au-lait macules, intertriginous freckling, dermal neurofibroma, iris hamartoma (Lisch nodules), and learning disability. NF1 vasculopathy is a serious but underrecognized complication involving the cerebrovascular and cardiovascular systems. …”
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A Long-Term Follow-Up Programme for Maintenance of Motor Function after Stroke: Protocol of the life after Stroke—The LAST Study by Torunn Askim, Birgitta Langhammer, Hege Ihle-Hansen, Jon Magnussen, Torgeir Engstad, Bent Indredavik

“…The LAST study therefore intends to assess the effect of a long-term follow-up program for stroke patients compared to standard care on function, disability and health. Design. This is a prospective, multi-site randomised controlled trial, with blinded assessment 18 months after inclusion. …”
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Application of Baduanjin qigong exercise for community-based group of elderly individuals with chronic nonspecific low back pain (中医气功八段锦干预社区老年慢性非特异性下腰痛患者的效果分析)... by LI Juan (栗娟), BAI Jianying (白建英), LI Jie (李洁), SHEN Yongqing (沈永青), QI Suwen (戚素文), FENG Huiling (冯会玲)

“…The primary and secondary outcomes measures of this trial were pain intensity and back functional disability. The Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and the Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) questionnaires were used to obtain data, which were measured respectively before intervention and three months later. …”
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Staged lateral⁃posterior lumbar interbody fusion for degenerative spinal deformity by LIU Zhen‐lei, WANG Kai, LI Kang, ZHANG Lei, JIAN Feng‐zeng, WU Hao

“…Pain severity was assessed by Visual Analog Scales (VAS), and disability was evaluated by Oswestry Disability Index (ODI). …”
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A New Smartphone-Based Cognitive Screening Battery for Multiple Sclerosis (icognition): Validation Study by Stijn Denissen, Delphine Van Laethem, Johan Baijot, Lars Costers, Annabel Descamps, Ann Van Remoortel, Annick Van Merhaegen-Wieleman, Marie D’hooghe, Miguel D'Haeseleer, Dirk Smeets, Diana M Sima, Jeroen Van Schependom, Guy Nagels

“…For each icognition test, validity was established by the correlation with its paper-and-pencil equivalent (concurrent validity), the correlation and intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) between baseline and follow-up testing (test-retest reliability), the difference between people with MS and healthy participants, and the correlation with other clinical parameters such as the Expanded Disability Status Scale. ResultsAll icognition tests correlated well with their paper-and-pencil equivalents (Symbol Test: r=0.67; P<.001; Dot Test: r=0.31; P=.002; vBDS: r=0.69; P<.001), negatively correlated with the Expanded Disability Status Scale (Symbol Test: ρ=–0.34; P<.001; Dot Test: ρ=−0.32; P=.003; vBDS: ρ=−0.21; P=.04), and showed moderate test-retest reliability (Symbol Test: ICC=0.74; r=0.85; P<.001; Dot Test: ICC=0.71; r=0.74; P<.001; vBDS: ICC=0.72; r=0.83; P<.001). …”
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Psychosocial factors are associated with community mobility and participation in persons with dizziness by Pamela M. Dunlap, Jeffrey P. Staab, Patrick J. Sparto, Patrick J. Sparto, Joseph M. Furman, Susan L. Whitney, Susan L. Whitney

“…Increased psychosocial comorbidity among people with dizziness is associated with disability and poorer outcomes in vestibular rehabilitation. …”
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Why Are There So Many Ways to Measure Pain? Epistemological and Professional Challenges in Medical Standardization by Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk

“…Many respond to the considerable challenge of treating pain intensity by redefining their work—sometimes in the face of resistance from patients—around other, putatively more treatable domains, such as disability. The diverse, arguably unstandardized approaches to measuring pain appear attributable less to pain’s epistemological fragility than to its therapeutic intractability, and to the medical community’s diffuse social structures and professional goals.…”
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Inclusive audiovisual educational tools: design and application by Angela Cristina Yánez Corrales, Verónica Elizabeth Espinosa Echeverria, Daniela Cárdenas Pérez

“…<br /><strong>Conclusions:</strong> the design of accessible audiovisual resources without difference with students with disabilities, benefits the entire group of students, within the equality framework.…”
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Gold Finger: Metal Jewellery as a Disease Modifying Antirheumatic Therapy! by T. Hlaing, S. Ramteke, K. Binymin

“…Polyarticular psoriatic arthritis is a chronic, progressive and disabling auto-immune disease often affecting the small joints of the hands in a symmetrical fashion. …”
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Procedural Treatments for Knee Osteoarthritis: A Review of Current Injectable Therapies by Lisa M. Billesberger, Kyle M. Fisher, Yawar J. Qadri, Richard L. Boortz-Marx

“…In addition to pain and disability, osteoarthritis is associated with depression, comorbid conditions such as diabetes, and increased caregiver burden. …”
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Comparative role of affective–Cognitive behavior therapy and jacobson's progressive muscular relaxation in managing pain among patients with fibromyalgia by M T Lakshmi Saranya, R Sreehari, C B Mithun, P I Sangeetha

“…Background: Fibromyalgia (FM) is a rheumatologic disease that advances with chronic pain and disability and represents one of the most common causes of chronic and diffuse pain in the population. …”
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Le harcèlement psychologique au travail : portrait des recours juridiques au Québec et des décisions rendues par la Commission des lésions professionnelles by Katherine Lippel

“…In 29.6% of the cases, the CLP accepted the claim for compensation, as compared to 52% of the claims for psychological disability attributable to workplace stress other than psychological harassment. …”
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