Publications by authors named "R A Moran"
Background: The modified Balance Error Scoring System (mBESS) incorporates nondominant leg stance for a ceiling effect, but that may not be the worse balancing leg. Updated recommendations call for single- and dual-task tandem gait, but limited research has explored these effects on the mBESS.
Purposes: To compare mBESS performance between dominant and nondominant legs during single and dual tasks and to determine 1-week test-retest reliability.
Background: Manual therapy is routinely used in the management of upper back pain (UBP), a disabling condition. However, the approach to diagnosis and treatment techniques used by manipulative physiotherapists and osteopaths is largely unknown.
Objectives: To explore knowledge about UBP, including diagnosis and treatment, by New Zealand (NZ) osteopaths and manipulative physiotherapists and to investigate differences (if any) in the self-reported approaches to diagnosis and management of UBP between the professions.
Comprehensible communication is critical for social functioning and well-being. In psychopathology, incoherent discourse is assumed to reflect disorganized thinking, which is classically linked to psychotic disorders. However, people do not express everything that comes to mind, rendering inferences from discourse to the underlying structure of thought challenging.
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- The study investigates how internal factors, particularly attitudes towards mobility, affect changes in transportation behavior among older drivers (70+) transitioning away from driving.
- It found that older individuals with a high readiness to adapt to mobility changes are significantly more likely to use alternative forms of transportation over time.
- However, personality traits had no impact on driving behavior or the use of alternative transportation, suggesting that attitudes play a crucial role in coping with reduced driving.