Publications by authors named "Tze-Hsuan Wang"
Harnessing the Power of Movement: A Body-Weight Support System & Assistive Robot Case Study.
IEEE Int Conf Rehabil Robot
September 2023
Young children with motor disabilities face extra obstacles to engaging in movement and initiating social interaction. A body-weight support harness system (BWSS) allows a child to take steps, explore the environment, and interact with people and objects, but further research is needed to understand how this type of system can help children with motor disabilities. Assistive robots have the potential to keep a child engaged and motivated during physical therapy sessions with a BWSS.
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- A new questionnaire called the Functioning Disability Evaluation Scale (FUNDES-Child) was created to assess activity and participation for children in Taiwan's Disability Eligibility Determination System (DEDS), based on a previous scale (CASP).
- The study used exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis on samples of children with disabilities to test the questionnaire's validity, revealing a four-factor structure for the frequency dimension and a two-factor structure for independence.
- Findings suggest that FUNDES-Child 7.0 has good structural validity for participation assessment in Taiwan's DEDS, but further research is needed to explore its effectiveness in rehabilitation and educational services.
Purpose: To evaluate the effects of hippotherapy on body functions, activities, and participation in children with CP of various functional levels by using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health-Children and Youth (ICF-CY) checklist.
Methods: Fourteen children with cerebral palsy (CP) (3-8 years of age) were recruited for a 36-week study composed of baseline, intervention, and withdrawal phases (12 weeks for each phase, ABA design). Hippotherapy was implemented for 30 min once weekly for 12 consecutive weeks during the intervention phase.
Background: Neurologic music therapy has demonstrated improved walking performance in persons with neurologic disease; however, little evidence supports the use of music with functional resistance exercise to improve motor capacity and daily functions for children with cerebral palsy.
Objective: To investigate the effect of additional patterned sensory enhancement (PSE) music combined with exercise for children with spastic diplegia.
Methods: An assessor-blind, randomized controlled trial with 6- and 12-week follow-ups was carried out.
Unlabelled: OBJECTIVE To investigate the psychometric properties of the five-repetition sit-to-stand test, a functional strength test, in children with spastic diplegia.
Design: Methodology study.
Settings: Hospital, laboratory or home.
The effects of patterned sensory enhancement (PSE) music on muscle power and movement control in children with spastic diplegia (SD) during loaded sit-to-stand (LSTS) were investigated. Twenty-three children with SD aged 5 to 12 years were recruited. Individualized PSE was composed by a music therapist based on each subject's sit-to-stand (STS) movement with 50% 1-repetition maximum load.
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