Objective: To evaluate the functional balance of children with sensory impairments submitted to hippotherapy. Methods: 24 both genres equally participated in three groups: cerebral palsy (CP), Down syndrome (DS), and intellectual disability (ID) respective age groups (10.71 ± 2.69 years), (12.83 2.64 (11 1.69 years).There were 15 attendances hippotherapy riding materials specific each group. Th...

The present study aims at investigating the changes between pre-test and post-test in mobility function, balance, and gait after a physical activity program in a sample of elderly people. Forty-four individuals living in residential care facilities were recruited, with a mean age of 85 (SD = 6.6) in the control group and 84.26 (SD = 7.4) in the intervention group. We collected baseline and post...

Objectives: Upper limb motor impairment causes limited activities of daily living in stroke survivors. Bimanual therapy is based on Bimanual movement that facilitates cortical balancing by simultaneous movement of paretic and non-paretic arms while performing a task. Studies aimed at exploring the effects of resisted Bimanual therapy with rhythmic auditory cues on arm function, balance, and end...

Greval (1940) reported that some cases of ' Eosinophilia ' give false positive Wassermann reaction. More recently Menon (1945) and D'Abrera and Stork (1946) reported similar reactions in tropical eosinophilia. It was proposed to record results of Wassermann reaction and Kahn test in all cases of eosinophilia as a part of the investigation into the incidence of false positive serologic reactions...

This work discusses the main challenges and requirements of technical and legal authentication interoperability in eservices involving organizations from different countries. We present the Stork cross-border authentication framework that satisfies these requirements by establishing interoperability between existing European national eID infrastructures in a federated manner. As a sample applic...

background falling is a major health threat for the elderly and has a significant impact on their well-being and quality of life. yet, falls are preventable among the elderly. we sought to determine the effectiveness of an educational intervention in reducing the fear of falling and improving balance among the elderly visiting jahandidegan center in shiraz, iran. methods a preliminary study was...