Publications by authors named "Bobeena R Chandy"
Article Synopsis
- - The study assessed the prevalence of childhood disability in Tamil Nadu, India, focusing on how functional difficulties affect school enrollment among 29,044 children aged 5 to 17 years.
- - Out of the children surveyed, 1.0% were found to have functional difficulties, with common issues being related to understanding and walking, and this disability significantly impacted their likelihood of enrolling in school (Prevalence ratio 4.59).
- - The findings reveal substantial differences across age and socioeconomic groups concerning the effect of functional difficulty on school enrollment, emphasizing a critical need for targeted interventions to improve educational access for affected children.
Article Synopsis
- A study in Tamil Nadu, India, aimed to assess the prevalence of childhood disabilities and their impact on school enrollment for children aged 5 to 17 years.
- Out of 29,044 children surveyed, 1.0% had functional difficulties, which were more common in walking and being understood, and these disabilities significantly affected school enrollment rates.
- The findings indicated that management of functional difficulties can differ based on age and socioeconomic factors, emphasizing the urgent need for targeted interventions to improve school access for affected children.
Objectives: Suprasacral spinal cord lesions are prone to have neurogenic detrusor overactivity leading to urinary incontinence. Current medical management has known side-effects and often surgical managements are irreversible. Electrical stimulation to modulate spinal reflex pathway having same nerve root as urinary bladder is reported in the literature.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Ankle foot orthosis (AFO) commonly prescribed to manage foot-drop following stroke restricts ankle mobility. Commercially available functional electrical stimulation (FES) is an expensive alternative to achieve desired dorsiflexion during swing phase of the gait cycle. An in-house cost-effective innovative solution was designed and developed to address this problem.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStudy Design: Retrospective study.
Objective: To analyse the orthotic walking outcome of patients with Low Thoracic Spinal Cord Injury (LT-SCI).
Setting: The Rehabilitation Institute at Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.
Infertility in men with spinal cord injury (SCI) occurs due to combination of factors like erectile dysfunction, ejaculatory failure, and semen abnormalities. Penile vibratory stimulation (PVS) is a known method of treatment for anejaculation. Predicting successful outcome of PVS depends on several clinical factors, which assess the intactness of the neural arc pertaining to the spinal ejaculation pattern generator.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: This is a single-subject case report. The objective is to describe the unique rehabilitation outcome of an individual with motor complete T12 paraplegia and a right transtibial amputation. This study was conducted at the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation of Christian Medical College in India.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To demonstrate reduction in detrusor overactivity using surface electrical stimulation of posterior tibial nerve (PTN) or dorsal penile nerve (DPN) in patients with spinal cord injury (SCI).
Design: Patients with SCI with symptoms of urinary urgency/leaks, with cystometrogram (CMG) proven detrusor overactivity were recruited in this study. Ten persons with observable F-wave from tibial nerve were included in the PTN group.