Browsing by Subject "Disability Evaluation"

COVID-19 and the need for disability conscious medical education, training, and practice.

Doebrich, Adrienne; Quirici, Marion; Lunsford, Christopher (Journal of pediatric rehabilitation medicine, 2020-01)

The COVID-19 era exposes what was already a crisis in the medical profession: structural racism, ageism, sexism, classism, and ableism resulting in healthcare disparities for Persons with Disabilities (PWD). Early research ...

Cross-national comparison of sex differences in health and mortality in Denmark, Japan and the US.

Oksuzyan, Anna; Crimmins, Eileen; Saito, Yasuhiko; O'Rand, Angela; Vaupel, James W; Christensen, Kaare (Eur J Epidemiol, 2010-07)

The present study aims to compare the direction and magnitude of sex differences in mortality and major health dimensions across Denmark, Japan and the US. The Human Mortality Database was used to examine sex differences ...

Description of Common Clinical Presentations and Associated Short-Term Physical Therapy Clinical Outcomes in Patients With Neck Pain.

Horn, Maggie E; Brennan, Gerard P; George, Steven Z; Harman, Jeffrey S; Bishop, Mark D (Arch Phys Med Rehabil, 2015-10)

OBJECTIVE: To determine the effect of clinical presentations of neck pain on short-term physical therapy outcomes. DESIGN: Retrospective analysis of pair-matched groups from a clinical cohort. SETTING: Thirteen outpatient ...

Energy recovery in individuals with knee osteoarthritis.

Sparling, TL; Schmitt, D; Miller, CE; Guilak, F; Somers, TJ; Keefe, FJ; Queen, RM (Osteoarthritis Cartilage, 2014-06)

OBJECTIVE: Pathological gaits have been shown to limit transfer between potential (PE) and kinetic (KE) energy during walking, which can increase locomotor costs. The purpose of this study was to examine whether energy exchange ...

Investigating dynamic pain sensitivity in the context of the fear-avoidance model.

Gay, CW; Horn, ME; Bishop, MD; Robinson, ME; Bialosky, JE (Eur J Pain, 2015-01)

BACKGROUND: Although nearly everyone at some point in their lives experiences back pain; the amount of interference with routine activity varies significantly. The fear-avoidance (FA) model of chronic pain explains ...

Leukocyte telomere length is associated with disability in older u.s. Population.

Risques, Rosa Ana; Arbeev, Konstantin G; Yashin, Anatoli I; Ukraintseva, Svetlana V; Martin, George M; Rabinovitch, Peter S; Oshima, Junko (J Am Geriatr Soc, 2010-07)

OBJECTIVES: To determine whether mean leukocyte telomere length (LTL) serves as a biomarker of disability assessed according to activities of daily living (ADLs) and what factors may modify this relationship. DESIGN: ...

Older person behavioral and psychological symptoms (BPS) and functional limitations mediate the association between older person cognitive impairment and depressive symptoms in the caregiver.

Malhotra, Rahul; Chei, Choy-Lye; Østbye, Truls; Chan, Angelique; Matchar, David B (Archives of gerontology and geriatrics, 2014-03)

We assess for the mediation of the association between older person cognitive impairment and caregiver depressive symptoms through older person BPS and functional limitations, and whether the mediation varies by caregiver-older ...

Projection of young-old and old-old with functional disability: does accounting for the changing educational composition of the elderly population make a difference?

Ansah, John P; Malhotra, Rahul; Lew, Nicola; Chiu, Chi-Tsun; Chan, Angelique; Bayer, Steffen; Matchar, David B (PloS one, 2015-01)

This study compares projections, up to year 2040, of young-old (aged 60-79) and old-old (aged 80+) with functional disability in Singapore with and without accounting for the changing educational composition of the Singaporean ...