The Effectiveness of Dance Therapy as an Adjunct to Rehabilitation of Adults With a Physical Disability.

To determine the added benefit on participants' mobility and participation of a 12-week dance therapy (DT) intervention combined with usual physical rehabilitation for adults with varied physical disabilities. Their appreciation of DT was also explored. We conducted a quasi-experimental study pre-post test with a nonequivalent control group and repeated measurements pre, post, and at a 3-month follow-up.

Rehabilitation in the real-life environment of a shopping mall.

Aim: The aim of this study was to explore how shopping malls could be used during rehabilitation and to identify the facilitators and barriers to their use.

Method: Two focus groups, conducted with 15 rehabilitation professionals from various disciplines and working with people with disabilities of all ages were structured around two topics: (i) The usage of malls for rehabilitation and (ii) Factors that facilitate or limit rehabilitation professionals' use of the mall as an environment for clinical assessment and/or intervention.

Results: The thematic analysis revealed that shopping malls were used to achieve several rehabilitation goals targeting physical and cognitive skills, psychological health and socialization.

Feasibility of delivering a dance intervention for subacute stroke in a rehabilitation hospital setting.

Dance can be a promising treatment intervention used in rehabilitation for individuals with disabilities to address physical, cognitive and psychological impairments. The aim of this pilot study was to determine the feasibility of a modified dance intervention as an adjunct therapy designed for people with subacute stroke, in a rehabilitation setting. Using a descriptive qualitative study design, a biweekly 45-min dance intervention was offered to individuals with a subacute stroke followed in a rehabilitation hospital, over 4 weeks.

Implementing a novel dance intervention in rehabilitation: perceived barriers and facilitators.

Purpose: To identify clinicians' perceptions regarding the facilitators and barriers to the use of dance in rehabilitation.

Methods: This study used a qualitative descriptive design. Three focus groups were conducted with clinicians across three purposively selected rehabilitation centers.

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Objective: To translate the Sport Concussion Assessment Tool 2 (SCAT2) based on the French spoken in Quebec and to confirm its acceptability for Quebec's francophone population.

Methodology: The original SCAT2 was translated using a modified approach of the tool translation and adaptation method as proposed by the World Health Organization. A parallel translation was done first.

Argentine tango dance compared to mindfulness meditation and a waiting-list control: a randomised trial for treating depression.

Objectives: To determine whether tango dancing is as effective as mindfulness meditation in reducing symptoms of psychological stress, anxiety and depression, and in promoting well-being.

Design: This study employed analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) and multiple regression analysis.

Participants: Ninety-seven people with self-declared depression were randomised into tango dance or mindfulness meditation classes, or to control/waiting-list.

Effects of expertise and auditory guidance on traditional dance performance.

This study investigated how the dancer's level of expertise and the type of auditory guidance provided influence the kinematic profile of the lower limbs during traditional dance performance. Ten experts in traditional Greek dance (age: 25±3.29 years, five males and five females) and eleven novice participants (age: 26.

The effectiveness of task-oriented intervention and trunk restraint on upper limb movement quality in children with cerebral palsy.

Aim: The goal of this study was to contribute evidence towards the effectiveness of task-oriented training with and without restriction of trunk movement (trunk restraint) on the quality of upper limb movement in children with cerebral palsy (CP).

Method: We used a prospective, single-subject research design in 12 children (three males, nine females; aged 6-11 y; median 9 y) with di-, hemi-, or quadriplegia. Movements of the most affected arm were assessed five times: three times before training, immediately after training, and 3 months after training.

Impact of partial administration of the Cognitive Behavioral Driver's Inventory on concurrent validity for people with brain injury.

Objectives: We sought to determine whether the partial administration of the Cognitive Behavioral Driver's Inventory (CBDI) has a significant effect on its concurrent validity.

Method: Data were extracted from charts of clients with cerebrovascular accident or traumatic brain injury from three centers. The CBDI was administered either completely or partially (right and left perimetry or Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS-R; Wechsler, 1982; Picture Completion and Digit Symbol tests were not completed).

Reliability of kinematic measures of functional reaching in children with cerebral palsy.

Aim: The determination of rehabilitation effectiveness in children with cerebral palsy (CP) depends on the metric properties of the outcome measure. We evaluated the reliability of kinematic measures of functional upper limb reaching movements in children with CP.

Method: Thirteen children (ten females, three males) with spastic hemiplegic, diplegic, or quadriplegic CP affecting at least one arm (mean age 9y, SD 1.

Effect of a community-based Argentine tango dance program on functional balance and confidence in older adults.

Tango-dancing and walking programs are compared in nondemented seniors at risk for falls. Fallers (N = 30) age 62-91 were randomly assigned to a 10-wk (40 hr, 2 hr 2x/wk) tango class or walk group. The Activities-specific Balance Confidence (ABC) scale, sit-to-stand scores, and normal and fast walk were measured pre-, post-, and 1 month postintervention.

Sensori-motor and daily living skills of preschool children with autism spectrum disorders.

Sensori-motor development and performance of daily living skills (DLS) remain little explored in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The objective of this study was to determine the impact of sensori-motor skills on the performance of DLS in preschool children with ASD. Thirty-five children, 3-4 years of age, were recruited and assessed with a battery of diagnostic and clinical tests.

Test-retest reliability and internal consistency of the Quebec-French version of the Survey of Pain Attitudes.

Objective: To determine the test-retest reliability and internal consistency of the Quebec-French version of the Survey of Pain Attitudes (QAD/F-SOPA).

Design: Measurement of test-retest reliability (2-wk interval) and internal consistency.

Setting: Five rehabilitation settings that offer services to chronic pain patients.

A pattern recognition technique to characterize the differential modulation of co-activating muscles at the performer/environment interface.

The purpose of this research was to develop and test an analytical tool that would recognize and classify the surface electromyographic (EMG) signal of co-activating muscles of the leg into pre-defined patterns of muscle activity: burst, tonic, and tonic-burst. Developed to study the task of landing from a jump in children, the pattern recognition technique (PRT) quantifies the full-wave rectified surface EMG signal over a short-duration sampling window by a single linear regression value. Shifting the sampling window across the data string ultimately defines the signal by a set of regression values that produce the recognizable burst, tonic and tonic-burst patterns on a least-squares surface plot.

The Montréal Rehabilitation Performance Profile: a statistical model for assessing stair descent in children with cognitive impairments.

Objectives: To characterize the responsiveness of the Montréal Rehabilitation Performance Profile (MRPP); to measure the differential effectiveness of a task-specific (TS) and a task-nonspecific (TNS) motor learning format to promote alternating stair descent in children with cognitive impairments; and to evaluate the relevance of the MRPP to evidence-based practice.

Design: Randomized comparison of 2 age-matched groups; psychometric testing of measurement tool.

Setting: School for children with developmental and cognitive impairments.

The development of coordination for reach-to-grasp movements in children.

When adults reach to grasp stationary targets, movement kinematics (endpoint trajectories, interjoint coordination) are highly stereotyped and stable. The emergence of an optimal coordination for reaching involves mastering the redundant number of degrees of freedom while the body grows. Reaching has been well studied in healthy children under the age of 3 years.