AIM: To investigate whether the finger movement at birth is a better predictor of the brachial plexus birth injury.METHODS: We conducted a retrospective study reviewing pre-surgical records of 87 patients with residua...AIM: To investigate whether the finger movement at birth is a better predictor of the brachial plexus birth injury.METHODS: We conducted a retrospective study reviewing pre-surgical records of 87 patients with residual obstetric brachial plexus palsy in study 1. Posterior subluxation of the humeral head(PHHA), and glenoid retroversion were measured from computed tomography or Magnetic resonance imaging, and correlated with the finger movement at birth. The study 2 consisted of 141 obstetric brachial plexus injury patients, who underwent primary surgeries and/or secondary surgery at the Texas Nerve and Paralysis Institute. Information regarding finger movement was obtained from the patient's parent or guardian during the initial evaluation.RESULTS: Among 87 patients, 9(10.3%) patients who lacked finger movement at birth had a PHHA > 40%, and glenoid retroversion <-12°, whereas only 1 patient(1.1%) with finger movement had a PHHA > 40%, and retroversion <-8° in study 1. The improvement in glenohumeral deformity(PHHA, 31.8% ± 14.3%; andglenoid retroversion 22.0°± 15.0°) was significantly higher in patients, who have not had any primary surgeries and had finger movement at birth(group 1), when compared to those patients, who had primary surgeries(nerve and muscle surgeries), and lacked finger movement at birth(group 2),(PHHA 10.7% ± 15.8%; Version-8.0°± 8.4°, P = 0.005 and P = 0.030, respectively) in study 2. No finger movement at birth was observed in 55% of the patients in this study group.CONCLUSION: Posterior subluxation and glenoid retroversion measurements indicated significantly severe shoulder deformities in children with finger movement at birth, in comparison with those lacked finger movement. However, the improvement after triangle tilt surgery was higher in patients who had finger movement at birth.展开更多
Objectives:To examine the effects of finger-movement exercises and finger weight-lift training on handgrip strength and Activities of Daily Living Scale(ADLS)values.Methods:A total of 80 very elderly adults(aged80 ye...Objectives:To examine the effects of finger-movement exercises and finger weight-lift training on handgrip strength and Activities of Daily Living Scale(ADLS)values.Methods:A total of 80 very elderly adults(aged80 years)were assigned to either an intervention group(n?40)or a control group(n?40).Subjects in the intervention group performed finger-movement exercises and weight-lift training for a period of 3 months,while subjects in the control group received no intervention,and were unaware of the interventions received in the other group.Results:After completing 3 months of finger-movement exercises and weight-lift training,the average handgrip strength of the 40 participants in the intervention group had increased by 2.1 kg,whereas that in the control group decreased by 0.27 kg(P<0.05).After receiving intervention,the number of subjects in the intervention group with an ADLS score>22 points decreased by 7.5%(P<0.05,vs.pre-intervention).Conclusions:The combined use interventionwith finger-movement exercises and proper finger weight-lift training improved the handgrip strength andADLS values of very elderly individuals.These rehabilitation exercisesmay be used to help the elderlymaintain their self-care abilities.展开更多
<span style="font-family:Verdana;">There are few EEG studies on finger movement directions because ocular artifacts also convey directional information, which makes it hard to separate the contribution...<span style="font-family:Verdana;">There are few EEG studies on finger movement directions because ocular artifacts also convey directional information, which makes it hard to separate the contribution of EEG from that of the ocular artifacts. To overcome this issue, we designed an experiment in which EEG’s temporal dynamics and spatial information are evaluated together to improve the performance of brain-computer interface (BCI) for classifying finger movement directions. Six volunteers participated in the study. We examined their EEG using decoding analyses. Independent components (ICs) that represented brain-source signals successfully classified the directions of the finger movements with higher rates than chance level. The weight analyses of the classifiers revealed that maximal performance of the classification was recorded at the latencies prior to the onset of finger movements. The weight analyses also revealed the relevant cortical areas including the right lingual, left posterior cingulate, left inferior temporal gyrus, and right precuneus, which indicated the involvement of the visuospatial processing. We concluded that combining spatial distribution and temporal dynamics of the scalp EEG may improve BCI performance.</span>展开更多
ms paper proposes a set of objective and quantitative human motion evaluation indices, among Which the index of difficulty and index of performance are introduced as the general indices for the quality measure of 2-D ...ms paper proposes a set of objective and quantitative human motion evaluation indices, among Which the index of difficulty and index of performance are introduced as the general indices for the quality measure of 2-D target-to-talget movement. As an example, the target-reaching movement of index finger, which is a basic functional action of index finger in the daily life of hUman beings, were experimentally investigated. In the experiment five healthy male subjects were asked to perform three target-reaching movement tasks Which have different indices of difficulty. All movements were recorded by a 3-D motion analysis system. Later, their motion qualities were measured with these evaluation metrics. The results showed that these indices are reasonable and have potential applications to biomedical engineering.展开更多
文摘AIM: To investigate whether the finger movement at birth is a better predictor of the brachial plexus birth injury.METHODS: We conducted a retrospective study reviewing pre-surgical records of 87 patients with residual obstetric brachial plexus palsy in study 1. Posterior subluxation of the humeral head(PHHA), and glenoid retroversion were measured from computed tomography or Magnetic resonance imaging, and correlated with the finger movement at birth. The study 2 consisted of 141 obstetric brachial plexus injury patients, who underwent primary surgeries and/or secondary surgery at the Texas Nerve and Paralysis Institute. Information regarding finger movement was obtained from the patient's parent or guardian during the initial evaluation.RESULTS: Among 87 patients, 9(10.3%) patients who lacked finger movement at birth had a PHHA > 40%, and glenoid retroversion <-12°, whereas only 1 patient(1.1%) with finger movement had a PHHA > 40%, and retroversion <-8° in study 1. The improvement in glenohumeral deformity(PHHA, 31.8% ± 14.3%; andglenoid retroversion 22.0°± 15.0°) was significantly higher in patients, who have not had any primary surgeries and had finger movement at birth(group 1), when compared to those patients, who had primary surgeries(nerve and muscle surgeries), and lacked finger movement at birth(group 2),(PHHA 10.7% ± 15.8%; Version-8.0°± 8.4°, P = 0.005 and P = 0.030, respectively) in study 2. No finger movement at birth was observed in 55% of the patients in this study group.CONCLUSION: Posterior subluxation and glenoid retroversion measurements indicated significantly severe shoulder deformities in children with finger movement at birth, in comparison with those lacked finger movement. However, the improvement after triangle tilt surgery was higher in patients who had finger movement at birth.
基金funded by the Aging Scientific Research Center in Zhejiang Province(ZRCA201013).
文摘Objectives:To examine the effects of finger-movement exercises and finger weight-lift training on handgrip strength and Activities of Daily Living Scale(ADLS)values.Methods:A total of 80 very elderly adults(aged80 years)were assigned to either an intervention group(n?40)or a control group(n?40).Subjects in the intervention group performed finger-movement exercises and weight-lift training for a period of 3 months,while subjects in the control group received no intervention,and were unaware of the interventions received in the other group.Results:After completing 3 months of finger-movement exercises and weight-lift training,the average handgrip strength of the 40 participants in the intervention group had increased by 2.1 kg,whereas that in the control group decreased by 0.27 kg(P<0.05).After receiving intervention,the number of subjects in the intervention group with an ADLS score>22 points decreased by 7.5%(P<0.05,vs.pre-intervention).Conclusions:The combined use interventionwith finger-movement exercises and proper finger weight-lift training improved the handgrip strength andADLS values of very elderly individuals.These rehabilitation exercisesmay be used to help the elderlymaintain their self-care abilities.
文摘<span style="font-family:Verdana;">There are few EEG studies on finger movement directions because ocular artifacts also convey directional information, which makes it hard to separate the contribution of EEG from that of the ocular artifacts. To overcome this issue, we designed an experiment in which EEG’s temporal dynamics and spatial information are evaluated together to improve the performance of brain-computer interface (BCI) for classifying finger movement directions. Six volunteers participated in the study. We examined their EEG using decoding analyses. Independent components (ICs) that represented brain-source signals successfully classified the directions of the finger movements with higher rates than chance level. The weight analyses of the classifiers revealed that maximal performance of the classification was recorded at the latencies prior to the onset of finger movements. The weight analyses also revealed the relevant cortical areas including the right lingual, left posterior cingulate, left inferior temporal gyrus, and right precuneus, which indicated the involvement of the visuospatial processing. We concluded that combining spatial distribution and temporal dynamics of the scalp EEG may improve BCI performance.</span>
文摘ms paper proposes a set of objective and quantitative human motion evaluation indices, among Which the index of difficulty and index of performance are introduced as the general indices for the quality measure of 2-D target-to-talget movement. As an example, the target-reaching movement of index finger, which is a basic functional action of index finger in the daily life of hUman beings, were experimentally investigated. In the experiment five healthy male subjects were asked to perform three target-reaching movement tasks Which have different indices of difficulty. All movements were recorded by a 3-D motion analysis system. Later, their motion qualities were measured with these evaluation metrics. The results showed that these indices are reasonable and have potential applications to biomedical engineering.
