Analysis of spontaneous speech is an important tool for clinical linguists to diagnose various types of neurodegenerative disease that affect the language processing areas. Prosody, fluency and voice quality may be affected in individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD, degradation of voice quality, unstable …

OBJECTIVES: The purpose of the current study was to compare the results of a progressive strength training protocol for soccer players after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) with healthy controls, and to investigate the effects of the strength training protocol on peak quadriceps and …

Introduction: Neuromuscular disease is a progressive muscle disease, whereby patients suffer from a decrease in muscle mass. Although muscle diseases can hardly be cured, treatment is possible with adequate protein intake. However, there is no general nutritional guideline available for patients with …

Introduction: Neuromuscular diseases (NMD) are a heterogeneous group of acquired or inherited diseases affecting the peripheral nervous system and muscle mass. The consequences of NMD are loss of muscle mass, function, and posture. Loss of muscle mass causes weakness, a decrease in mobility and cardiac …

Objectives Chronic systemic low grade inflammation is associated with the age-related loss of muscle mass. Resistance exercise has been suggested to reduce or lower chronic systemic low grade inflammation. However, systemic chronic low-grade inflammation may adversely affect the adaptive response to …

As already stated, making progressive decisions in the current market organization is complex. In view of the exponential growth of digitalization and the related possibilities such as the modernization of service, it is crucial to be able to act completely freely. This implies, among other things, that …

BACKGROUND: People experiencing homelessness often encounter progressive incurable somatic diseases in combination with psychiatric and psychosocial problems, and many need palliative care at the end of their lives. Little is known about how palliative care for this group can be started in good time …

Background: Despite improvement of tumour response rates in patients with progressive and metastatic cancer, immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICM) induce toxicities in cancer patients. Viscum album L. (VA, mistletoe) extracts are applied as add-on cancer therapy especially in German speaking countries and …

Pauses in speech may be categorized on the basis of their length. Some authors claim that there are two categories (short and long pauses) (Baken & Orlikoff, 2000), others claim that there are three (Campione & Véronis, 2002), or even more. Pause lengths may be affected in speakers with aphasia. Individuals …