Current state of balance assessment during transferring, sitting, standing and walking activities for the spinal cord injured population: A systematic review.

Context: Comprehensive balance measures with high clinical utility and sound psychometric properties are needed to inform the rehabilitation of individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI).

Objective: To identify the balance measures used in the SCI population, and to evaluate their clinical utility, psychometric properties and comprehensiveness.

Methods: Medline, PubMed, Embase, Scopus, Web of Science, and the Allied and Complementary Medicine Database were searched from the earliest record to October 19/16.

Falls, mobility, and physical activity after spinal cord injury: an exploratory study using photo-elicitation interviewing.

Study Design: Exploratory qualitative study using photo-elicitation interviews.

Objectives: To identify contributors to falls, as perceived by individuals with incomplete spinal cord injury, and describe the impact of perceived fall risk on mobility and physical activity.

Setting: Participants' home and community environments.

Physical Therapists' Use of Functional Electrical Stimulation for Clients With Stroke: Frequency, Barriers, and Facilitators.

Background: Best practice guidelines for stroke rehabilitation recommend functional electrical stimulation (FES) to improve gait and upper extremity function. Whether these guidelines have been implemented in practice is unknown.

Objective: The purposes of this study were: (1) to determine the frequency with which physical therapists use FES to address common therapeutic goals poststroke and (2) to identify the barriers to and facilitators of FES use.

Integration of taste and calorie sensing in Drosophila.

Animals use gustatory information to assess the suitability of potential food sources and make critical decisions on what to consume. For example, the taste of sugar generally signals a potent dietary source of carbohydrates. However, the intensity of the sensory response to a particular sugar, or "sweetness," is not always a faithful reporter of its nutritional value, and recent evidence suggests that animals can sense the caloric content of food independently of taste.