Publications by authors named "C J Slater"
Interprofessional co-treatment occurs when practitioners from different professions engage in collaborative practice during the same session with the same patient or client. While interprofessional co-treatment is common practice in many settings, there are no known studies that have synthesized the available literature across professions on this interprofessional intervention. A scoping review was conducted to explore the nature and volume of the literature on interprofessional co-treatment involving six allied health professions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: There is extensive evidence that rapid infant weight gain increases the risk of childhood obesity, but this is normally based on childhood body mass index (BMI) only and whether or not this is because infants with rapid weight gain accrue greater fat mass is unknown.
Objective: The primary objective of our study was to test whether the proportion of infant weight gain due to concurrent increases in fat mass is greater in infants with rapid weight gain as compared to those with normal growth.
Methods: Body composition was assessed by (1) air-displacement plethysmography (ADP) at 0 and 6 months in 342 infants from Australia, India, and South Africa and (2) deuterium dilution (DD) at 3 and 24 months in 555 infants from Brazil, Pakistan, South Africa, and Sri Lanka.
Lower limb prosthesis users are at an increased risk of developing osteoarthritis in their intact knee. There is a scarcity of literature examining how the stiffness properties of commercially available prosthetic feet impact gait mechanics, including knee loading biomechanical variables that have been associated with the development of osteoarthritis. This study aimed to isolate the effect of commercial prosthetic foot stiffness on intact knee loading, prosthetic foot-ankle biomechanics, and user perception.
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- Neuromuscular transmission is how motor neurons tell muscles to move, which helps animals survive by allowing them to make purposeful movements.
- While many animals share similar ways of sending signals to muscles, there are differences based on whether the movements are slow (like standing) or fast (like escaping danger).
- The article examines how neuromuscular transmission works in various animals, including worms, flies, fish, mice, and humans, and shows that there are many ways this process can happen.