[Return to Sport (RTS) After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: Which Factors Influence the RTS Decision?].

Background: It is unknown which valid criteria should be considered to justify the decision for return to sport (RTS) following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR). The research question is whether gender, age, the outcome of the isokinetic maximal strength measurement and the single-leg hop test (quantitative/qualitative) influence the decision for RTS nine months after ACLR.

Methods: This study is a retrospective data analysis.

Learning a new balance task: The influence of prior motor practice on training adaptations.

Prior motor experience is thought to aid in the acquisition of new skills. However, studies have shown that balance training does not promote learning of a subsequent balance task. These results stand in contrast to the learning-to-learn paradigm, which is well described for other tasks.

Contact-Free Monitoring of Pulse Rate For Triage of Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department.

Background: The evaluation of a patient's pulse rate (PR) plays a key role in emergency triage and is commonly measured in a contact-dependent way.

Objective: Our aims were to evaluate a camera-based prototype application (CBPA) measuring PR in an emergency department (ED) as an alternative to the current contact-dependent method of pulse oximetry and to determine the correlation between CBPA and pulse oximetry in measuring PR.

Methods: We simultaneously measured PR with CBPA and pulse oximetry as a reference method on a large group of ED walk-in patients.

Updating Expectations About Unexpected Object Motion in Infants Later Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

In typical development, infants form predictions about future events based on incoming sensory information, which is essential for perception and goal-directed action. It has been suggested that individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) make predictions differently compared to neurotypical individuals. We investigated how infants who later received an ASD diagnosis and neurotypical infants react to temporarily occluded moving objects that violate initial expectations about object motion.

Motor atypicalities in infancy are associated with general developmental level at 2 years, but not autistic symptoms.

Atypicalities in motor functioning are often observed in later born infant siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder. The goal of our study was to investigate motor functioning in infants with and without familial history of autism spectrum disorder. Specifically, we investigated how infants catch a ball that is rolling toward them following a non-straight path, a task that requires both efficient planning and execution.