Maternal positions in childbirth - A cohort study of labouring women's movements and body positions the last 24 hours before birth.

Introduction: Maternal position plays an essential role in achieving labour progress as it supports the physiological mechanisms of labour. Evidence supports that adopting upright positions may facilitate physiological childbirth.

Aim: To describe the use of various positionsamong nulliparous pregnant women in the last 24 h before birth and describe physical positions in relation to maternal and neonatal outcomes at time of birth.

Impact of upper-body ergometer rowing exercise on aerobic fitness and cardiometabolic disease risk in individuals with spinal cord injury: A 6-month follow-up study.

We recently demonstrated that upper-body rowing exercise (UBROW) improved aerobic fitness in individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI), with no effect on traditional cardiometabolic risk factors. Here, we tested the hypothesis that the exercise-induced increase in aerobic fitness was maintained at 6-month (6M) follow-up. Six-month follow-up.

Rowing exercise increases cardiorespiratory fitness and brachial artery diameter but not traditional cardiometabolic risk factors in spinal cord-injured humans.

Purpose: This study assessed the effects of upper-body rowing exercise on cardiorespiratory fitness, traditional cardiometabolic risk factors, and vascular health in individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI).

Methods: Seventeen male and female adults with chronic (> 1 yr) motor-complete and incomplete SCI (level of injury: C4-L3) were randomized to control (CON, n = 9) or exercise (UBROW, n = 8). Participants in UBROW performed 12-week, 3 weekly sessions of 30-min upper-body ergometer rowing exercise, complying with current exercise guidelines for SCI.

Wheelchair-modified ergometer rowing exercise in individuals with spinal cord injury: a feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy study.

Study Design: Exploratory clinical investigation.

Objectives: To assess the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of upper-body rowing exercise adapted to wheelchair users with spinal cord injury (SCI).

Setting: University exercise laboratory.

Implementation of a municipality-based rehabilitation program for patients with neuritis vestibularis: lessons learned and derived snowball effects.

Background: Patients with dizziness are severely affected in their daily life. The dizziness may be caused by vestibular neuritis and this condition may be severe and result in hospitalization. Qualified municipal rehabilitation services are warranted for these patients after edischarge from the hospital.

Lifestyle physical activity in manual wheelchair users - an overlooked public health opportunity.

Public health guidelines and health promotion efforts have traditionally focused on weekly accumulation of moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) via structured exercise. There has been a recent paradigm shift towards the organic incorporation of MVPA in daily leisure and non-leisure time, termed "Lifestyle Physical Activity" (LPA). However, this paradigm shift and the underlying research has neglected manual wheelchair users (MWCUs) with spinal cord injury (SCI), who could benefit from LPA.

Sociodemographic characteristics associated with physical activity barrier perception among manual wheelchair users.

Background: Individuals with disabilities are sub-optimally active and at increased risk for chronic diseases. Limited knowledge exists about how differences among wheelchair-dependent individuals may affect their perception of physical activity barriers.

Objective: We examined whether the perception of physical activity barriers are associated with wheelchair user sociodemographic characteristics.

Attentional Capacity during Dual-task Balance Performance Deteriorates with Age before the Sixties.

Postural control may be automated and leave residual attentional capacity for concurrent cognitive challenges - i.e. dual-task capacity.

Physical Activity Barriers in Danish Manual Wheelchair Users: A Cross-sectional Study.

Objective: To identify physical activity barrier prevalence and severity among manual wheelchair users (MWCUs) and test whether barrier impact is associated with self-reported physical activity level (PAL).

Design: Cross-sectional survey. The Barriers to Physical Activity Questionnaire for People with Mobility Impairments (BPAQ-MI) was translated from English to Danish and administered online.

Age related differences in balance approached by a novel dual-task test of anticipatory postural control strategies.

Introduction: Assessment of balance is key to identifying individuals with postural control deficits and an increased fall risk. Subjects may compensate for their deficits by utilizing other strategies; to avoid this, it is recommended to assess postural control using a dual-task test. In most dual-task tests, it is difficult to monitor the performance in the secondary task and the individual's task prioritisation.

Evaluation of functional ankle instability assessed by an instrumented wobble board.

Objectives: Ankle sprains often lead to a history of recurrent injuries and functional joint instability. This study evaluated a new method for assessing functional impairment in patients with chronic ankle instability.

Design: Case-control study for construct validation purpose.

Manipulation of the body schema - Unilateral manual stimulation of lower extremity influences weight distribution in standing position.

Clinical experience advocates sensory stimulation to increase the body sensation and adjust the body schema, which may be disturbed in some patients. Unilateral massage may affect the body midline orientation, but little evidence is available to support the effect of this practice. Twenty-one healthy young people participated in this experimental study.

Medial shoe-ground pressure and specific running injuries: A 1-year prospective cohort study.

Objectives: Achilles tendinitis, plantar fasciopathy and medial tibial stress syndrome injuries (APM-injuries) account for approximately 25% of the total number of running injuries amongst recreational runners. Reports on the association between static foot pronation and APM-injuries are contradictory. Possibly, dynamic measures of pronation may display a stronger relationship with the risk of APM-injuries.

Asymmetry in gait pattern following tibial shaft fractures - a prospective one-year follow-up study of 49 patients.

Introduction: Despite the high number of studies evaluating the outcomes following tibial shaft fractures, the literature lacks studies including objective assessment of patients' recovery regarding gait pattern. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate whether gait patterns at 6 and 12 months post-operatively following intramedullary nailing of a tibial shaft fracture are different compared with a healthy reference population.

Patients And Methods: The study design was a prospective cohort study.

Decreased QOL and muscle strength are persistent 1 year after intramedullary nailing of a tibial shaft fracture: a prospective 1-year follow-up cohort study.

Introduction: To evaluate the development in patient-reported quality of life (QOL) and muscle strength in the period from surgery to 12 months postoperatively after intramedullary nailing of a tibial shaft fracture.

Materials And Methods: The design was a prospective, follow-up cohort study. QOL was measured with the questionnaire Eq5D-5L and compared to norm data from a reference population.

The Use of Cognitive Cues for Anticipatory Strategies in a Dynamic Postural Control Task - Validation of a Novel Approach to Dual-Task Testing.

Introduction: Dual-task testing is relevant in the assessment of postural control. A combination of a primary (motor) and a secondary (distracting cognitive) tasks is most often used. It remains a challenge however, to standardize and monitor the cognitive task.

Strategies for equilibrium maintenance during single leg standing on a wobble board.

The aim of this study was to identify and compare movement strategies used to maintain balance while single leg standing on either a firm surface (FS) or on a wobble board (WB). In 17 healthy men, retroreflective markers were positioned on the xiphoid process and nondominant lateral malleolus to calculate trunk and contralateral-leg excursion (EXC) and velocity (VEL), and center of pressure (CoP) EXC and VEL during FS on a force platform. From the WB test, standing time (WBTIME) was determined and the board's angular EXC and VEL were calculated from four markers on the WB as surrogate measures for CoP dynamics.

The Use of Computer-Assisted Home Exercises to Preserve Physical Function after a Vestibular Rehabilitation Program: A Randomized Controlled Study.

Objective. The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether elderly patients with vestibular dysfunction are able to preserve physical functional level, reduction in dizziness, and the patient's quality of life when assistive computer technology is used in comparison with printed instructions. Materials and Methods.

Local and Widespread Hyperalgesia After Isolated Tibial Shaft Fractures Treated with Intramedullary Nailing.

Objectives: Knee pain is accepted as a common complication to intramedullary nailing of tibial fractures. However, no studies have systematically studied the pain sequel following tibial fractures. The objective of this study was to assess pain and hyperalgesia from 6 weeks to 12 months postoperatively after intramedullary nailing of tibial shaft fracture.

Incidence and epidemiology of tibial shaft fractures.

Introduction: The literature lacks recent population-based epidemiology studies of the incidence, trauma mechanism and fracture classification of tibial shaft fractures. The purpose of this study was to provide up-to-date information on the incidence of tibial shaft fractures in a large and complete population and report the distribution of fracture classification, trauma mechanism and patient baseline demographics.

Methods: Retrospective reviews of clinical and radiological records.

Computer-assisted training as a complement in rehabilitation of patients with chronic vestibular dizziness--a randomized controlled trial.

Objective: To compare a computer-assisted home exercise program with conservative home-training following printed instructions in the rehabilitation of elderly patients with vestibular dysfunction.

Design: Single-blind, randomized, controlled trial.

Setting: Geriatric department of a university hospital.

Restrictions in quality of life after intramedullary nailing of tibial shaft fracture: a retrospective follow-up study of 223 cases.

Objective: To evaluate the long-term outcome after intramedullary nailing of tibial shaft fracture.

Design: Retrospective, cross-sectional study.

Setting: Level I, Trauma Center.

Intrarater reproducibility and validity of Nintendo Wii balance testing in community-dwelling older adults.

The aims of the current study were to examine the intrarater intersession reproducibility of the Nintendo Wii agility and stillness tests and explore the concurrent validity in relation to gold-standard force-plate analysis. Within-day intersession reproducibility was examined in 30 older adults (age 71.8 ± 5.