There has been little study of how to adapt handheld devices for use by people with physical disabilities. We found that the tiny stylus keyboards on PalmOS devices work well for some people with Muscular Dystrophy, who tend to have good accuracy but little strength or range of motion. However, for people with other disabilities, such as Cerebral Palsy, Parkinson's Disease and other neuro-muscu...

Botulinum neurotoxins belong to the most toxic substances in nature. Well-known as a food poisoning agent for almost two centuries, the beneficial aspects of this bacterial metabolite were rediscovered about 30 years ago. These toxins, which are produced by the anaerobic bacterium Clostridium botulinum are nowadays used to treat a variety of neuro-muscular disorders. The increased demand requir...

Since past few years, researchers have been concentrating on the classification of Electromyography Signal. This method is very useful in diagnosing the neuro-muscular disorders, which consists of wide spread diseases affecting peripheral nervous system. Progressive muscle weakness is the major form of these disorders. Out of various proposed methods, scholars are commonly focusing on Neural Ne...

Previous nuclear disease was found twice: Mc Ardle disease, dermatomyositis. Causative factors were: strenous exercise, hyperthermia, intoxication, influenza. Myalgias and/or myoedema was recorded in ten cases, associated with an hypovolemia of variable severity in eight. Oligo-anuria was observed in eight cases. The acute renal failure (ARF) was characterized by an increase in the serum creati...

Computer games have been recognized as a motivational tool in rehabilitation for a decade. Traditional rehabilitation includes exercises which are often considered as repetitive, boring and requires supervision by the therapist. New opportunities in rehabilitation have risen with the emerging popularity of computer games and novel input sensors like 3D cameras, balance boards or accelerometers....

The wide occurrence of peristaltic pumping should not be surprising at all since it results physiologically from neuro-muscular properties of any tubular smooth muscle. Of special concern here is to predict the rheological effects on the peristaltic motion in a curved channel. Attention is focused to develop and simulate a nonlinear mathematical model for Carreau-Yasuda fluid. The progressive w...

Introduction: In this work, we attempted to correct the non-uniformities generated in lower limbs (calf and thigh) NMRI by RF inhomogeneities. Correction techniques are based in general on prior knowledge about the intensity distribution inside tissues (or tissue magnetic properties) which is not straightforward in case of pathological muscles, as in neuro-muscular disorders. For our applicatio...

In this paper we focus on how a developmental perspective on plasticity in the control of human movement can promote early therapy and improve gait acquisition in infants with developmental disabilities. Current knowledge about stepping development in healthy infants across the first year of life highlights strong plasticity, both in behavioral outcome and in underlying neuro-muscular activatio...

Different gaits with upright body configurations make human bipedal locomotion unique [1]. Upper body balance is key to human locomotion. To balance, humans may control the direction of the ground reaction force [2] and the center of pressure, either continuously or step by step. Older infants learn standing and walking upright while holding tight to stable objects [3], thereby simplifying bala...

In this article we consider ReSuMe a new supervised learning method for the Spiking Neural Networks. We present the results of experiments, which indicate that ReSuMe has the following properties: (1) it can learn temporal sequences of spikes and (2) model object’s I/O properties; (3) it is scalable and (4) computationally simple; (5) it is fast converging; (6) the method is independent on the ...