After an eight-day trek Jamie reached the 5,895 metre summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in the early hours of August 12- wearing ...

Players who have difficulty gripping the racket may use an orthosis to attach the racket ... K43: athletes with bilateral amputation below the elbow, or equivalent loss of function in both upper ...

Since following therapy, partial recovery has taken place in both motor and sensory aspects up to pelvic girdle level. Further recovery is impossible. Therefore he is been advised to use Advanced ...

Camptodactyly is a flexion deformity of the proximal interphalangeal (PIP) joint, in the anteroposterior direction, painless and bilateral in 2/3 of the cases ... After reaching the neutral position, ...

The patient reported a background of intermittent foot pain and bilateral ankle instability over the past ... a deloading protocol, orthotics and analgesia. At 6-month follow-up, this led to ...

Background Ankle-foot orthosis (AFO) is the most frequently used type of orthosis in children with cerebral palsy (CP). AFOs are designed either to improve function or to prevent or treat muscle ...

The 2011 dataset showed an increasing trend (p < 0.001) in the use of AFO relative to the levels of gross motor function, from 34% in children at GMFCS I to approximately 70% at GMFCS IV and V ...

However, depending on the shoe and activity type, prefabricated inserts (also known as over-the-counter orthotics) may not always be sufficient because of their thickness. For dress shoes ...