Vibration as a stimulus to treat Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients was first recommended by Charcot in 1892, and although this approach was subsequently abandoned, recently, whole-body vibration (WBV) protocols have been suggested as a modern substitute.– A small number of studies have assessed the effects of WBV on motor symptoms in PD, with apparently positive results, obtained in open-trial ...

background: despite the negative effect of fear of falling during functioning and social participation of patients with parkinson' disease, so far, only few studies have investigated its effect on the quality of life in these patients. we aimed to investigate the association between fear of falling and quality of life controlling for balance impairments based on hip and ankle strategy in d...

[Purpose] The purpose of the present study was to examine the validity of functional reach models by comparing actual values with estimated values. [Subjects and Methods] Twenty-eight volunteers were included in this study (male: 14, female: 14, age: 21 ± 1 years, height: 166.8 ± 9.0 cm, and body mass: 60.1 ± 8.5 kg). The maximum forward fingertip position and joint angles were measured using t...

Drossopoulou and Noble [6] argue persuasively for the need for a means to express policy in object-capabilitybased systems. We investigate a practical means to realize their aim via the Curry-Howard isomorphism [1] [13]. Specifically, we investigate representing policy as types in a behavioral type system for the rho-calculus [15], a reflective higher-order variant of the π-calculus [18].