Publications by authors named "Rose Darcy"
Objective: The aim of the study is to determine the effectiveness of a medial off-loader brace with sensor monitoring capabilities and associated phone application in improving outcomes for individuals with knee osteoarthritis.
Methods: This is a randomized clinical trial of participants with knee osteoarthritis, aged 40-75 with two groups: 1) brace-only and 2) brace+sensor (sensor providing walking time, knee range of motion, and 7-day activity streak). Both groups received a prefabricated custom-fitted medial off-loader brace and 12-wk self-guided exercise therapy program.
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- This study investigates the differences between male and female mice in terms of synovitis, pain response, and joint damage in a model of post-traumatic osteoarthritis (OA) following anterior cruciate ligament rupture (ACLR).
- Male mice showed more severe joint damage and inflammation at both 7 and 28 days after injury than female mice, along with increased levels of matrix metalloproteinase activity and heightened pain sensitivity.
- Female mice exhibited unique molecular responses, including inflammation resolution at 28 days post-injury, while males displayed greater bone changes and injury-induced catabolic responses.
Introduction: Participation in adaptive sports can mitigate the risk for obesity and social isolation/loneliness in individuals with disabilities (IWDs). The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and related changes in physical activity exacerbated existing barriers to participation in adaptive sports. There is limited literature assessing the potentially disproportionate effect of pandemic-related changes to physical activity in IWDs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Blood flow restriction therapy (BFRT) has been increasingly applied to improve athletic performance and injury recovery. Validation of BFRT has lagged behind commercialization, and currently the mechanism by which this therapy acts is unknown. BFRT is one type of ischemic therapy, which involves exercising with blood flow restriction.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis paper focuses on three seemingly unrelated error patterns in the sound system of a child with a phonological delay, Child 218 (male, age 4 years 6 months) and ascribes those error patterns to a larger conspiracy to eliminate fricatives from the phonetic inventory. Employing Optimality Theory for its advantages in characterizing conspiracies, our analysis offers a unified account of the observed repairs. The contextual restrictions on those repairs are, moreover, attributed to early developmental prominence effects, which are independently manifested in another error pattern involving rhotic consonants.
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