[Implementation of palliative care in Ivory Coast].

Ivory Coast adhered to the strategy of the primary cares of health whose leading principles served basis to the definition of the National politics of sanitary development, exposed in the National plan of sanitary development 1996-2005. The improvement of the quality of the cares is the main objective of this plan. The attack of this objective cannot make itself without the hold in account of the palliative cares that are a component of the cares for the patients affected by chronic and incurable affections, since the diagnosis until the death and even after the death.

[An anthropological approach to how Tchaman people in the Côte-d'Ivoire view hemiplegia].

Objective: Investigate the underlying beliefs, knowledge and therapeutic attitudes toward hemiplegia of the Tchaman people of the Ivory Coast.

Material And Methods: A descriptive and cross-sectional study conducted over 10 months in 20 Tchaman village communities in the Ivory Coast. Three groups of people were interviewed: patients with hemiplegia, the circle and close neighbourhood of patients and traditional doctors.

[Capacity and performance: ambulatory monitoring under controlled and real-life conditions].

Objectives: To determine the value of ambulatory monitoring in assessing human gait. To describe the sensors, the parameters and the ambulatory devices.

Materials And Methods: Literature review and practical experience about techniques, principles, objectives and limits.

Influence of terrain on metabolic and temporal gait characteristics of unilateral transtibial amputees.

The difficulties confronted by amputees during overground walking are rarely investigated. In this study, we evaluated, in real-world situations, the influence of ground surface on walking in young, active amputees by measuring temporal and spatial gait parameters (free walking speed [FWS], step length [SL], step rate), energy expenditure (EE) (e.g.

Eye movements and visuoverbal descriptions exhibit heterogeneous and dissociated patterns before and after prismatic adaptation in unilateral spatial neglect.

This prospective study examined the effects of prismatic adaptation on visual exploration strategies in patients with left unilateral spatial neglect (USN). Photo-oculographic gaze recordings were obtained, as the subjects (28 brain-damaged; 15 control) performed a free visual exploration task before and after a session of prismatic adaptation. (i) Before prismatic adaptation, the pattern of visual exploration described two subgroups of patients (symmetrical exploration of hemispaces - similar to the control subjects, deficient exploration of left hemispace).