Disease relevance of Self-Help Devices

• OBJECTIVES: To examine use of an assistive device, a long-handled bath sponge (LHBS) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis to describe use from the time of in-hospital prescription to the 2- and 12-month followups, and to describe the characteristics of those who became device users and non-users [1].
• OBJECTIVE: This study describes the types of assistive devices in the possession of persons with multiple sclerosis (MS) and identifies factors that best predicted the probability of possessing these devices [2].

High impact information on Self-Help Devices

• Survey of the use and effect of assistive devices in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis: a two-year followup of women and men [3].
• The aim of the study was to demonstrate whether an interdisciplinary approach to evaluating and prescribing assistive technology reduces equipment abandonment in persons with MS [4].
• The proposed framework is based on the theoretical concepts and terminology from classical science, assistive technology development, human-computer interaction, and previous BI-related works [5].
• DESIGN: Seven patients who walked with physical assistance (FIM 4) after stroke and 13 who walked independently with assistive devices (FIM 6) were compared with 13 healthy subjects [6].
• Computer assisted orthopaedic surgery. Image guided and robotic assistive technologies [7].

Biological context of Self-Help Devices

• The rates of O2 consumption per minute, O2 cost per meter, heart rate, respiratory quotient, velocity, cadence, and peak axial load exerted by the arms on upper extremity assistive devices were measured [8].

Associations of Self-Help Devices with chemical compounds

• An assistive technology system ("the Tremor Control System"), consisting of a motion-filtering software program that supports multiple interfaces, was developed and validated with 36 persons with Multiple Sclerosis in a multi-center trial [9].
• Automatic speech recognition and training for severely dysarthric users of assistive technology: the STARDUST project [10].

Gene context of Self-Help Devices

• PURPOSE: The paper presents the main outline of a new research project carried out by the SIVA research team concerning the development of methodologies to select and use assistive technology to allow children with motor disabilities to play with toys [11].
• The impact of electronic assistive devices (ie, the environmental control system or ECS) on the day-to-day living of high-level quadriplegics (C3-C5) was studied [12].
• All completed the Life Orientation Test and the Psychosocial Impact of Assistive Devices Scale [13].
• Carpal tunnel syndrome in the nonparetic hands of hemiplegics. Stress-induced by ambulatory assistive devices [14].
• INTERVENTIONS: Counselor training in the Matching Person and Technology (MPT) Model and consumer completion of the MPT measure, Assistive Technology Device Predisposition Assessment (ATD PA) [15].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Self-Help Devices

• Ninety-two hearing-impaired individuals completed some combination of the Abbreviated Profile of Hearing Aid Benefit, Expected Consequences of Hearing Aid Ownership (ECHO), Satisfaction with Amplification in Daily Life (SADL), and Psychosocial Impact of Assistive Devices Scale, and provided reports of their daily and lifetime hearing aid use [16].
• Clinically, they developed symptoms suggestive of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) in their nonparetic hands during a progressive ambulation training program which included ambulatory assistive devices [14].

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