W Koch, Marcus Mostert, Jop Repovic, Pavle Bowen, James D Strijbis, Eva Uitdehaag, Bernard Cutter, Gary
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Multiple sclerosis (Houndmills, Basingstoke, England)
Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) outcomes are often included as secondary outcomes in clinical trials in secondary progressive MS (SPMS), but little is known about the longitudinal association of HRQOL and clinical and imaging outcome measures in SPMS. To assess the association of change in clinical and imaging outcomes with HRQOL in people w...
Groessl, Erik J Casteel, Danielle McKinnon, Symone McCarthy, Adhana Schmalzl, Laura Chang, Douglas E Fowler, Ian M Park, Crystal L
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Global Advances in Health and Medicine
Background Chronic low back pain (cLBP) and chronic neck pain (cNP) are highly prevalent conditions and common reasons for disability among military personnel. Yoga and other mind-body interventions have been shown to safely decrease pain and disability in persons with cLBP and/or cNP but have not been adequately studied in active duty military per...
bayartai;, munkh-erdene
The aim of this study was to examine the short-term changes in disability after an inpatient, multidisciplinary body weight reduction program (BWRP) in adults with obesity. A total of 160 individuals (males: 52, females: 108, BMI > 35 kg/m2) hospitalized for a 3-week multidisciplinary BWRP were recruited into the study. Body composition, lower limb...
Rieger, Janice
Vis-ability is an exhibition that seeks to encourage audiences to see differently in a world which privileges sight-driven experiences. Drawing upon the knowledge of designers, university researchers and disability experts within the community, Vis-ability pushes the boundaries of universal design through innovative design technologies that encoura...
Brian, Ali Starrett, Angela Haibach-Beach, Pamela De Meester, An Taunton Miedema, Sally Pennell, Adam Lieberman, Lauren J
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Research quarterly for exercise and sport
Children with visual impairments typically demonstrate lower levels of motor competence, physical activity, and perceived motor competence compared to their peers without visual impairments. Stodden and colleagues purport that perceived motor competence mediates the relationship between motor competence and physical activity for youth without visua...
Sweeting, Fay Arden-Close, Emily
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Chronic illness
Behçet's disease is a rare and incurable condition where the body's immune system attacks healthy tissue. Behçet's can cause blood clots and ulcerations to form in every organ and system in the body, including deep and painful genital ulceration. The psychological impact of the disease on intimacy and relationships is unexplored. This study aimed t...
Cobert, Julien Jeon, Sun Young Boscardin, John Chapman, Allyson C Ferrante, Lauren E Lee, Sei Smith, Alexander K
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Chest
Older adults are increasingly admitted to the ICU, and those with disabilities, dementia, frailty, and multimorbidity are vulnerable to adverse outcomes. Little is known about how pre-existing geriatric conditions have changed over time. How have changes in disability, dementia, frailty, and multimorbidity in older adults admitted to the ICU change...
Beckett, Megan K Martino, Steven C Agniel, Denis Mathews, Megan Hudson Scholle, Sarah James, Cara Wilson-Frederick, Shondelle Orr, Nate Darabidian, Biayna Elliott, Marc N
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Health services research
To investigate (a) the magnitude of the independent associations of neighborhood-level and person-level social risk factors (SRFs) with quality, (b) whether neighborhood-level SRF associations may be proxies for person-level SRF associations, and (c) how the association of person-level SRFs and quality varies by neighborhood-level SRFs. 2015-2016 M...
Mulders, Henny van Ruitenbeek, Gemma Wagener, Bert Zijlstra, Fred
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Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences
Inclusive Work Redesign (IWR) is an innovative strategy to create feasible job opportunities for job seekers from vulnerable groups at the labor market, in particular people with disabilities, in such a way that it contributes to sustainable employment for all staff and to the organization's performance. As an element of active labor market policie...
Ipsen, Catherine Ward, Bryce Myers, Andrew
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Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences
Purpose This paper investigates how life events such as injuries, health insurance coverage, geography, and occupation contribute to mobility disability rates over time. Findings can inform policies and practices to address factors that may contribute to disability in rural and urban areas. Methods We utilized 27 waves of the National Longitudinal ...
