Effects of Short-Term Hippotherapy on Strength, Sensory-Motor Skills, and Attention in Adult Patients with Neuromuscular Dysfunction

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Vaczi ◽  
Eszter Kerekes
Keyword(s):  
Motor Skills ◽  
Adult Patients ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Neuromuscular Dysfunction ◽  
Sensory Motor

scholarly journals Visual-spatial sequence learning and memory in trained musicians

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esperanza M Anaya ◽  
David B Pisoni ◽  
William G Kronenberger
Keyword(s):  
Motor Skills ◽  
Sequence Learning ◽  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Musical Training ◽  
Musical Instrument ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Visual Spatial ◽  
Sensory Motor ◽  
Nonverbal Reasoning

Previous research has shown that musicians have enhanced visual-spatial abilities and sensory-motor skills. As a result of their long-term musical training and their experience-dependent activities, musicians may learn to associate sensory information with fine motor movements. Playing a musical instrument requires musicians to rapidly translate musical symbols into specific sensory-motor actions while also simultaneously monitoring the auditory signals produced by their instrument. In this study, we assessed the visual-spatial sequence learning and memory abilities of long-term musicians. We recruited 24 highly trained musicians and 24 nonmusicians, individuals with little or no musical training experience. Participants completed a visual-spatial sequence learning task as well as receptive vocabulary, nonverbal reasoning, and short-term memory tasks. Results revealed that musicians have enhanced visual-spatial sequence learning abilities relative to nonmusicians. Musicians also performed better than nonmusicians on the vocabulary and nonverbal reasoning measures. Additional analyses revealed that the large group difference observed on the visual-spatial sequencing task between musicians and nonmusicians remained even after controlling for vocabulary, nonverbal reasoning, and short-term memory abilities. Musicians’ improved visual-spatial sequence learning may stem from basic underlying differences in visual-spatial and sensory-motor skills resulting from long-term experience and activities associated with playing a musical instrument.

Relationship Between Sensory--Motor Skills and Cognitive Processing in ADHD

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew S. Davis ◽  
Lisa A. Pass ◽  
W. Holmes Finch ◽  
Raymond S. Dean ◽  
Richard W. Woodcock
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processing ◽  
Motor Skills ◽  
Sensory Motor

scholarly journals GCT-08. PROTON BEAM RADIOTHERAPY FOR PEDIATRIC AND YOUNG-ADULT PATIENTS WITH INTRACRANIAL GERM CELL TUMOR

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (Supplement_3) ◽  
pp. iii329-iii329
Author(s):  
Minako Sugiyama ◽  
Takayuki Hashimoto ◽  
Takashi Mori ◽  
Kazuya Hara ◽  
Yukayo Terashita ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Adverse Events ◽  
Germ Cell ◽  
Cell Count ◽  
Proton Beam ◽  
Adult Patients ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Intracranial Germ Cell Tumor ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Proton Beam Radiotherapy

Abstract BACKGROUND To reduce treatment-related adverse events in pediatric and young-adult patients with brain tumors, proton beam radiotherapy (PBT) has recently been performed instead of conventional X-ray radiotherapy. However, whether PBT is as effective as X-ray radiotherapy has not been sufficiently investigated, especially in patients receiving whole-ventricular irradiation. METHODS We report a retrospective observation of 15 patients with intracranial germ cell tumors (GCT), who received PBT at our institution from April 2014 to September 2019. We evaluated their clinical course, short-term adverse events, and prognosis. RESULTS/ CONCLUSION Fifteen patients (9 males and 6 females; median age 13 years) who received PBT following induction chemotherapy were analyzed. Nine patients received 23.4–27.0 GyE of whole-ventricular irradiation due to GCT in the pituitary gland, pineal body, or hypothalamic area. Three patients received 23.4 GyE of whole-brain irradiation: one of them had boost irradiation for basal ganglia. Three patients received 30.6 GyE of craniospinal irradiation (CSI). Six of the 15 patients experienced nausea (grade 2, according to the CTCAE version 4.0). Four patients, including two who received CSI, showed myelosuppression: decrease in white blood cell count, lymphocyte cell count, and neutrophil count (grade 3). No other severe short-term adverse events of >grade 2 was observed in any of the patients. At a median follow-up of 21 months (2-62 months) after irradiation. all patients are alive without recurrence. Our results may be encouraging and further investigations with a larger scale is warranted.

scholarly journals Refractive disorders in children

2021 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-9
Author(s):  
Larisa-Bianca Holhos ◽  
◽  
Mihaela Coroi ◽  
Teodora Holhos ◽  
Ioana Damian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Motor Skills ◽  
Motor Development ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Severe Form ◽  
Perceptual System ◽  
Refractive Errors ◽  
Visual Dysfunction ◽  
Sensory Motor ◽  
Complex Activities

According to current estimations, globally, there are around 150 million people with an uncorrected refractive disorder, which means 27% of the world’s population. Approximately 1.4 million of these are children and have a milder or more severe form of visual dysfunction secondary to refractive errors. Since 1990, refractive errors are considered to be a public health problem among children and cause visual dysfunction, with a prevalence of up to 43%. Vision maturation occurs in early childhood, when all the senses and motor skills work together to acquire language, first ideas about the environment and all the elements that define the person himself. Sight is a contributory perceptual system for the cognitive, social, sensory-motor development and for the assemblage of information about the environment. In the first years of life, the child increasingly discovers complex activities, requiring the ability to change the eyes fixation in space from one point to another and a normal binocular motility.

scholarly journals Short-term and one-year outcome of infective endocarditis in adult patients treated in a Finnish teaching hospital during 1980–2004

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maija Heiro ◽  
Hans Helenius ◽  
Saija Hurme ◽  
Timo Savunen ◽  
Erik Engblom ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Infective Endocarditis ◽  
Teaching Hospital ◽  
Adult Patients ◽  
Short Term ◽  
One Year

TREATMENT OF TRIGGER FINGERS BY INJECTION OF METHYLPREDNISOLONE ACETATE AND LIDOCAINE (DEPO-MEDROL®)

Hand Surgery ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 01 (02) ◽  
pp. 103-105
Author(s):  
J. Joris Hage ◽  
Jaap D.K. Munting
Keyword(s):  
Side Effects ◽  
Prospective Study ◽  
Success Rate ◽  
Adult Patients ◽  
Methylprednisolone Acetate ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Local Injections ◽  
One Year ◽  
A Prospective Study

Thirty-six adult patients with 44 trigger fingers of less than four months' duration entered a prospective study on the efficiency of treatment with local injections of a combination of corticosteroids and lidocaine. From this study it may be concluded that the short-term success rate (93%) of one to three injections of methylprednisolone and lidocaine 2% (Depo-Medrol®) is comparable to that achieved by surgical or percutaneous tenolysis. At one year of follow-up, this success rate still amounted to 86%. In our hands, this therapy is without complications or side effects.

50 Efficacy of new short-term high intensive protocol BL-M-04 for adult patients with Burkitt lymphoma

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
E. Baryakh ◽  
S. Kravchenko ◽  
E. Zvonkov ◽  
A. Kremenetskaya ◽  
T. Obuhova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Burkitt Lymphoma ◽  
Adult Patients ◽  
Short Term
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