Objectives To evaluate the feasibility and validity of gait parameters measured with an electronic walkway system in predicting short-term fall risk in nursing home residents with dementia. Methods 57 ambulatory nursing home residents with moderate to severe dementia participated in this prospective …

QUESTION: In adults who experience nocturnal leg cramps, does stretching of the calf and hamstring muscles each day just before sleep reduce the frequency and severity of the cramps? DESIGN: A randomised trial with concealed allocation and intention-to-treat analysis. PARTICIPANTS: Eighty adults aged …

This is the first meta-analysis focusing on elderly patients with mobility problems, physical disability and/or multi-morbidity. The aim of this study is to assess the effect of physical exercise therapy on mobility, physical functioning, physical activity and quality of life. A broad systematic literature …

Objectives: Although deaf children with cochlear implants (CIs) are able to develop good language skills, the large variability in outcomes remains a significant concern. The first aim of this study was to evaluate language skills in children with CIs to establish benchmarks. The second aim was to make …

Het is voor jonge dove kinderen belangrijk om intensieve begeleiding te krijgen om goede gehoor, taal en academische vaardigheden te ontwikkelen. Hoe deze begeleiding eruit moet zien en welke kennis en materialen nodig zijn om deze kinderen logopedisch te begeleiden is echter nog onduidelijk. Het onderzoek …

Dysphagia is a potentially harmful feature, also in Parkinsons disease (PD). As published prevalence rates vary widely, we aimed to estimate the prevalence of oropharyngeal dysphagia in PD in a meta-analysis. We conducted a systematic literature search in February 2011 and two independent reviewers selected …

Het doel van dit onderzoek was om de eenjarige evolutie van foutenpatronen op morfologisch, syntactisch en semantisch gebied binnen de narratieve ontwikkeling bij kinderen met een cochleair implantaat in kaart te brengen, in vergelijking met normaalhorende gematchte leeftijdsgenoten. Van 25 kinderen …

Het is voor jonge dove kinderen belangrijk om intensive begeleiding te krijgen om goede gehoor, taal en academische vaardigheden te ontwikkelen. Hoe deze begeleiding eruit moet zien en welke kennis en materialen nodig zijn om deze kinderen logopedisch te begeleiden is echter nog onduidelijk. Het onderzoek …

Objective: To examine spoken language outcomes in children undergoing bilateral cochlear implantation compared with matched peers undergoing unilateral implantation. Design: Case-control, frequency-matched, retrospective cross-sectional multicenter study. Setting: Two Belgian and 3 Dutch cochlear implantation …

Introduction Physical activity is suggested to be important for low back pain (LBP) but a major problem is the limited validity of the measurement of physical activities, which is usually based on questionnaires. Physical fitness can be viewed as a more objective measurement and our question was how …