Methods: Four impairment measures (fatigue severity scale, MRC sum score, “INCAT” sensory sum score, grip strength with the Vigorimeter), five disability scales (nine hole peg test, 10 metres walking ...

Polio is in the news, with vaccination under threat and recent outbreaks. This makes Alan Marshall’s classic disability ...

Anne-Lise Mithout is Associate Professor of Japanese Studies at Université Paris Cité and a member of the Research Center on East Asian Languages and Civilizations (CRCAO). Her research deals with the ...

Employees have certain obligations under the Americans with Disability Act. ... Employees are responsible for preventing impairment or engaging in behavior that puts themselves or co-workers at risk.

Introduction Women living with disabilities are disproportionately vulnerable to intimate partner violence (IPV). Existing research on the topic largely takes place in high-income settings and treats ...

The question of how disability should be defined is fraught with political, ethical and philosophical complexities. The social model of disability, which posits that disability is socially and ...

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Catastrophizing is also a key driver of disability in vestibular disorders. In a 2018 study, Pothier et al. validated the Dizziness Catastrophizing Scale (DCS) and showed that catastrophic thinking ...

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