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| Diane L DamianoSummaryAffiliation: National Institutes of Health Country: USA Publications
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Muscle plasticity and ankle control after repetitive use of a functional electrical stimulation device for foot drop in cerebral palsyDiane L Damiano
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
Neurorehabil Neural Repair 27:200-7. 2013..FES devices differ from traditional orthoses that often restrict muscle activation and may exacerbate weakness, promote continued dependence on orthoses, or precipitate functional decline...- A systematic review of the effectiveness of treadmill training and body weight support in pediatric rehabilitationDiane L Damiano
Rehabilitation Medicine Department, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
J Neurol Phys Ther 33:27-44. 2009..A secondary goal was to ascertain whether protocol guidelines for BWSTT are available to guide pediatric physical therapy practice... - Can strength training predictably improve gait kinematics? A pilot study on the effects of hip and knee extensor strengthening on lower-extremity alignment in cerebral palsyDiane L Damiano
Functional and Applied Biomechanics Section, Rehabilitation Medicine Department, NIH Clinical Center, Bldg 10, Room 1 1469, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Phys Ther 90:269-79. 2010..These findings suggest that therapies for improving upright posture during gait also may reduce excessive internal rotation... - New clinical and research trends in lower extremity management for ambulatory children with cerebral palsyDiane L Damiano
Functional and Applied Biomechanics Section, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, 10 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Phys Med Rehabil Clin N Am 20:469-91. 2009.... - Rehabilitative therapies in cerebral palsy: the good, the not as good, and the possibleDiane L Damiano
National Institutes of Health, Rehabilitation Medicine Department, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
J Child Neurol 24:1200-4. 2009..Their continued prevalence among clinicians is puzzling and disconcerting, as evidence supporting other approaches continues to accumulate... - Development of a Haptic Elbow Spasticity Simulator (HESS) for improving accuracy and reliability of clinical assessment of spasticityHyung Soon Park
National Institutes of Health, Clinical Center, Rehabilitation Medicine Department, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng 20:361-70. 2012..Inter-rater reliability among the eight clinicians had substantial agreement (κ = 0.626). The eight clinicians also rated the level of realism ( 7.63 ± 0.92 out of 10) as compared to their experience with real patients... - Comparison of elliptical training, stationary cycling, treadmill walking and overground walkingDiane L Damiano
Functional and Applied Biomechanics Section, Rehabilitation Medicine Department, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA
Gait Posture 34:260-4. 2011..Further evaluation of these devices in neurological gait disorders is needed... 
Haptic recreation of elbow spasticityHyung Soon Park
Functional and Applied Biomechanics Section, Rehabilitation Medicine Department, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
IEEE Int Conf Rehabil Robot 2011:5975462. 2011..They distinguished the three models and the MAS scores given to the recreated models matched 100% with the original MAS scores from the patients...- Accuracy and reliability of haptic spasticity assessment using HESS (Haptic Elbow Spasticity Simulator)Jonghyun Kim
Rehabilitation Medicine Department, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2011:8527-30. 2011..The level of realism was 7.71±0.95 out of 10. These results show that the haptic recreation of spasticity by HESS has the potential to be used as a training tool for standardizing and enhancing reliability of clinical assessment... - Comparison of elliptical training, stationary cycling, treadmill walking and overground walking. Electromyographic patternsLaura A Prosser
Functional and Applied Biomechanics Section, Rehabilitation Medicine Department, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States
Gait Posture 33:244-50. 2011..Clinicians and researchers should also consider the kinematic and kinetic differences between tasks, which cannot necessarily be inferred from muscle activation patterns... - Acceptability and potential effectiveness of a foot drop stimulator in children and adolescents with cerebral palsyLaura A Prosser
Center for Rehabilitation, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Dev Med Child Neurol 54:1044-9. 2012..The primary objective of this study was to conduct the first trial in CP examining the acceptability and clinical effectiveness of a novel, commercially available device that delivers FES to stimulate ankle dorsiflexion... - Effectiveness of physical therapy for improving gait and balance in individuals with traumatic brain injury: a systematic reviewDaniel C Bland
Functional and Applied Biomechanics Section, Rehabilitation Medicine Department, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Brain Inj 25:664-79. 2011....