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CORRECTING SHERRINGTON’S GAIT DYSFUNCTION WITH AN OFF THE SHELF KNEE ORTHOTIC
No full textThis professional opinion describes the use of an off the shelf knee orthotic to correct the gait and functional mobility of a patient with hemisensory loss including proprioception following a stroke and provides supporting video. Interestingly, this case corrects a human analogue of a functional deficit found experimentally in monkeys in the 19th century by Mott and Sherrington.
Article PDF Link: https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/cpoj/article/view/34528/26530
Video 1 Link: https://online-publication.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/VIDEO-1-CPOJ.mov
Video 2 Link: https://online-publication.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/VIDEO-2-CPOJ.mov
How To Cite: Balkaya I, Altschuler E.L. Correcting sherrington’s gait dysfunction with an off the shelf knee orthotic. Canadian Prosthetics & Orthotics Journal. 2020;Volume3, Issue1, No.4. https://doi.org/10.33137/cpoj.v3i1.34528
Corresponding Author: Eric L Altschuler, MD, PhDMetropolitan Hospital,1901 First Avenue, New York, NY, 10029, USA.E-Mail: [email protected]: (212) 423-6448Fax: (212) 423-6326ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3575-695
Bachanalia the essential listener's guide to Bach's well-tempered clavier
No full textWhat can a young man who calls himself "a disk jockey for Bach" - who questions, when turning to Bach's Prelude and Fugue in F-sharp Major, what "such a short, fast, lively prelude is doing with such a long, slow, ponderous fugue," and who closes his explanation of tuning systems in eighteenth-century Germany by concluding that "an untempered tuning system is like homemade chocolate chip cookies" - possibly have to teach us about one of the greatest musical masterpieces of all timeIf the young man happens to be Eric Altschuler, and the masterpiece happens to be Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, the answer is - just about everythingJoyously conceived and written in a spirit of true adventure, Bachanalia is at once edifying and delightfully irreverent. Altschuler's essays - one for each of the forty-eight fugues in the Well-Tempered - are full of playful, clever analogies to horror movies, human nature, football games, even sex, and a linear exposition of each fugue allows even the most unschooled listeners to follow the fugue's form in its entiret
An unexplained three-dimensional percept emerging from a bundle of lines.
No full textPerceptual grouping has been extensively studied, but some areas are still unexplored-in particular, the figural organizations that emerge when bundles of intersecting lines are drawn. Here, we will describe some figural organizations that emerge after the superimposition of bundles of lines forming the profile of regular triangular waves. By manipulating the lines' jaggedness and junction geometry (regular or irregular X junction) we could generate the following organizations: (a) a grid, or a figural configuration in which both the lines and closed contours are perceived, (b) a figure-ground organization composed of figures separated by portions of the background, and (c) a corrugated surface appearing as a multifaceted polyhedral shell crossed by ridges and valleys. An experiment was conducted with the aim at testing the role of the good-continuation and closure Gestalt factors. Good continuation prevails when the lines are straight or close to straightness, but its role is questionable in the appearance of a corrugated surface. This perceptual organization occurs despite the violation of the good-continuation rule and consists of a structure of such complexity so as to challenge algorithms of computer vision and stimulate a deeper understanding of the perceptual interpretation of groups of lines
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Animal-Assisted Therapy for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: Lessons from Case Reports in Media Stories
No full textPost-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can follow war trauma, sexual abuse, other traumas, and even be experienced by commanders for the PTSD of their subordinates. Medications and counseling are sometimes not effective, so new treatments are needed. Some years ago, I suggested that animal-assisted therapy (AAT) (pet therapy) might be beneficial for PTSD. A large randomized controlled trial is underway of canine-assisted therapy for PTSD. Randomized controlled trials are most useful in assessing the efficacy of a medical intervention as these trials control for known and unknown biases. However, due to their very nature and rigorous requirements, knowledge gained from randomized controlled trials may need to be supplemented from other kinds of studies. Here, I note that media reports of AAT for PTSD may effectively function as case reports and suggest further studies: For PTSD, these demonstrate that (1) AAT can be dramatically effective in improving PTSD symptoms; (2) there is the potential for benefit from AAT by multiple different animals besides canines for PTSD; and (3) AAT may have a role in preventing suicide in patients with PTSD
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