Ultrasound is used to assess risk stratification in patients with coronary artery disease. However, few studies quantify the relationship between carotid or lower limb atherosclerosis and coronary ...

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Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is a common cardiovascular disease associated with increased risk of amputation, myocardial infarction, stroke, and death, as well as impaired quality of life (QOL), ...

Biologic mechanisms by which exercise improves walking in PAD are unclear. This review summarizes evidence regarding effects of walking exercise on lower extremity skeletal muscle in PAD. In older ...

However, as a pilot study, participant numbers were small (n=35), and the SDR group was slightly younger (~1.5 years) and had more spasticity in two of five lower extremity muscles (hip adductors and ...

ciro-horn.nl Rationale Strength training and neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) improve lower-limb muscle function in dyspnoeic individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

The most frequently injected lower-limb muscles were the gastrocnemius ... injected with onabotulinumtoxinA in adults with spasticity were the wrist, elbow, and finger flexors and the ankle ...

The pattern of weakness should be documented, including (1) symmetry versus asymmetry, (2) proximal versus distal involvement, (3) upper versus lower limb predominance and (4) presence versus absence ...

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Objective: Orthoses have shown potential in addressing upper limb spasticity in stroke survivors; however, their influence on motor recovery remains controversial. This study aimed to examine the ...

Abstract: This paper presents a novel algorithm using Lie group representation of position and orientation alongside a constrained extended Kalman filter (CEKF) to accurately estimate pelvis, thigh, ...