Sfoglia per Soggetto "Disability Evaluation"
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Acoustic and Perceived Measurements Certifying Tango as Voice Treatment Method
(2018)Voice disorders are affecting everyday life in many levels, and their prevalence has been studied extensively in certain and general populations. Notably, several factors have a cohesive influence on voice disorders and ... -
Characteristics and Outcomes in Patients with COVID-19 and Acute Ischemic Stroke: The Global COVID-19 Stroke Registry
(2020)Recent case-series of small size implied a pathophysiological association between coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and severe large-vessel acute ischemic stroke. Given that severe strokes are typically associated with ... -
Comparison of Voice Handicap Index Scores Between Female Students of Speech Therapy and Other Health Professions
(2017)Students' groups (eg, teachers, speech language pathologists) are presumably at risk of developing a voice disorder due to misuse of their voice, which will affect their way of living. Multidisciplinary voice assessment ... -
Continuing versus Stopping Prestroke Antihypertensive Therapy in Acute Intracerebral Hemorrhage: A Subgroup Analysis of the Efficacy of Nitric Oxide in Stroke Trial
(2016)Background and purpose More than 50% of patients with acute intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) are taking antihypertensive drugs before ictus. Although antihypertensive therapy should be given long term for secondary prevention, ... -
Cross-cultural Adaptation and Validation of the Greek Voice Handicap Index-10 (GVHI-10) With Additional Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis
(2020)Objective(s): The use of subjective evaluation tools are proven useful and of high clinical value in the case of voice disordered population. For that type of evaluation, self-assessment questionnaires about the severity ... -
Effectiveness of integration and re-integration into work strategies for persons with chronic conditions: A systematic review of European strategies
(2018)Due to low employment rates associated to chronic conditions in Europe, it is essential to foster effective integration and re-integration into work strategies. The objective of this systematic review is to summarize the ... -
Effects of Pilates and trunk strengthening exercises on health-related quality of life in women with chronic low back pain
(2016)BACKGROUND: Pilates programs are widely used as a form of regular exercise in a broad range of populations investigating their effectiveness for chronic low back pain (CLBP) treatment. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was ... -
Embolic Stroke of Undetermined Source and Detection of Atrial Fibrillation on Follow-Up: How Much Causality Is There?
(2016)Background There is increasing debate whether atrial fibrillation (AF) episodes during follow-up in patients with embolic stroke of undetermined source (ESUS) are causally associated with the event. AF-related strokes are ... -
External Validation of the PREMISE Score in the Athens Stroke Registry
(2019)Background: A simple score was proposed recently for Predicting Early Mortality from Ischemic Stroke (PREMISE) derived from the Austrian Stroke Unit Registry. This score could be useful in clinical practice and research. ... -
Predictors of Need for Critical Care Support, Adverse Events, and Outcome after Stroke Thrombolysis
(2018)Background: Results from trials and international registries exhibit heterogeneity regarding safety, efficacy, markers of prognosis, and markers of the need for critical care support after intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) ... -
Restless legs syndrome in Multiple Sclerosis patients: a contributing factor for fatigue, impaired functional capacity, and diminished health-related quality of life
(2018)Objectives Restless legs syndrome (RLS) symptoms are common in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients. The aim of the current study was to examine for the first time whether RLS could affect the functional capacity and various ... -
Translation into modern standard Arabic, cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric properties' evaluation of the Lower Extremity Functional Scale (LEFS) in Arabic-speaking athletes with Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injury
(2019)Background The Lower Extremity Functional Scale evaluates the functional status of patients that have lower extremity conditions of musculoskeletal origin. Regional Arabic dialects often create barriers to clear communication ... -
Translation, reliability and validity of the Greek functional mobility scale (FMS) for children with cerebral palsy
(2022)Purpose: To translate and investigate the reliability and validity of the Greek version of the Functional Mobility Scale (FMS). Methods: FMS was translated into Greek. Test-retest reliability (Cohen’s weighted kappa ... -
Using Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve to Define the Cutoff Points of Voice Handicap Index Applied to Young Adult Male Smokers
(2018)Voice performance is an inextricable key factor of everyday life. Obviously, the deterioration of voice quality can cause various problems to human communication and can therefore reduce the performance of social skills ...