Does sensorimotor dysfunction underlie reading impairment? To investigate this question, a battery of literacy, phonology, auditory, visual, and motor tests were administered to age- and ability-matched groups of dyslexic, autistic, and control children. As in previous studies, only a subset of the dyslexic children had sensory and/or motor impairments, whilst some dyslexics were entirely spare...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate upper limb functioning, restrictions on participation and the independent contribution of upper and lower limb disability to participation in hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy 1a. DESIGN Descriptive cross-sectional study. SUBJECTS Forty-nine patients with hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy 1a. METHODS Perceived upper limb functioning was evaluated using th...

  Background: Learning disability is one of the most noticed subjects for behavioral specialists. Most of the learning difficulties are caused by senso-motor development and neurological organization. The main purpose of the present research is to examine the role of delayed perceptual-motor development and brain damage in origination of expressive writing disorder (EWD).   Methods: The studi...

AIMS To describe perinatal factors associated with later morbidity among extremely preterm children at 30 months of age corrected for prematurity. POPULATION Of 308 surviving children born at <or=25 weeks gestation in the United Kingdom and Ireland from March to December 1995, 283 (92%) were evaluated at 30 months of age corrected for prematurity. METHODS Cerebral palsy, severe motor disabi...

BACKGROUND Non-motor symptoms are present in Parkinson's disease (PD) and a key determinant of quality of life. The Non-motor Symptoms Scale (NMSS) is a validated scale that allows quantifying frequency and severity (burden) of NMS. We report a proposal for using NMSS scores to determine levels of NMS burden (NMSB) and to complete PD patient classification. METHODS This was an observational, ...

STUDY DESIGN An experimental study of motor and sensory function and psychological distress in subjects with acute whiplash injury. OBJECTIVES To characterize acute whiplash injury in terms of motor and sensory systems dysfunction and psychological distress and to compare subjects with higher and lesser levels of pain and disability. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Motor system dysfunction, sens...

BACKGROUND The available clinical outcome measures of disability in multiple sclerosis are not adequately responsive or sensitive. OBJECTIVE To investigate the feasibility of inertial sensor-based gait analysis in multiple sclerosis. METHODS A cross-sectional study of 80 multiple sclerosis patients and 50 healthy controls was performed. Lower-limb kinematics was evaluated by using a commerc...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to compare the effects of a high load lifting exercise with low load motor control exercises on pain intensity, disability and health-related quality of life for patients with mechanical low back pain. DESIGN A randomized controlled trial. SUBJECTS Patients with mechanical low back pain as their dominating pain mechanism. METHODS The intervention progra...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Acupuncture may be a promising treatment for poststroke paralysis. We conducted a meta-analysis, assessing the efficacy of acupuncture with and without stroke rehabilitation. METHODS We identified randomized trials comparing acupuncture with no acupuncture within 6 months of stroke by searching MEDLINE, CINAHL, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, and Chinese medical literature da...

we aimed to compare the therapeutic effect of avonex (av), betaferon (be) & rebif (re) on the expanded disability status scale (edss) in multiple sclerosis (ms). ninety patients referring to farshchian hospital were entered in this study. the patients were divided into three equal groups: group 1 received av, group 2 received re and group 3 received be, and after 24 months, comparison was done ...