The control and execution of movement could potentially be altered by the presence of stroke-induced weakness if muscles are incapable of generating sufficient power. The purpose of this study was to identify compensatory strategies during a forward (sagittal) reaching task for 20 persons with chronic stroke and 10 healthy age-matched controls. We hypothesized that the paretic anterior deltoid ...

1 FINAL ACCEPTED VERSION: MANUSCRIPT NUMBER (JN-00732-2004.R3) Saturated muscle activation contributes to compensatory reaching strategies following stroke Patrick H McCrea 1,3 Janice J Eng 2,3 Antony J Hodgson Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of BC, 2054-2324 Main Mall, Vancouver, V6T 1Z4, Canada School of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of BC, T325-2211 Wesbrook Mall, Vanc...

Prosopagnosia is a type of visual agnosia with inability to identify faces, usually secondary to brain lesion in associative cortex areas, but there is also a congenital form known as developmental prosopagnosia. Objectives To describe a case of developmental prosopagnosia that illustrates the specificity of the pathways for perception of faces in the visual system. Also, we will describe pos...

Change-in-support strategies, involving stepping or grasping movements of the limbs, are prevalent reactions to instability and appear to play a more important functional role in maintaining upright stance than has generally been appreciated. Contrary to traditional views, change-in-support reactions are not just strategies of last resort, but are often initiated well before the center of mass ...

punitive damage is a kind of supra-compensatory damage which is awarded in favor of plaintiff in civil actions for punishing the defendant and deterring him from taking action like that in future. the main feature of punitive verdict is deterrence and punishment and in this regard two economic theories exist (optimal deterrence and gain elimination theories). however punitive aspect of this dam...

Patients with cleft palate frequently show compensatory articulation (CA). CA requires a prolonged period of speech intervention. Some scaffolding strategies can be useful for correcting placement and manner of articulation in these cases. The purpose of this paper was to study whether the use of specific strategies of speech pathology can be more effective if applied according to the level of ...