Relaxation Exercise With Cerebral Palsied Adults Showing Spasticity

Ortega, Deems F.

doi:10.1901/jaba.1978.11-447

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“…Hancock and Hockey (19841, however, reported that dynamic changes in body temperature produced decrements in motor slulls. Ortega (1978) found that a relaxation task increased the motor performance of cerebral palsied adults. Lufofs, Wennekens, and van Houtem (1981) observed that physical exertion had an extreme effect on subjects' heart rates without affecting their reaction times.…”

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Effects of Exercise on Dexterity

Waldron

Anton

1995

Percept Mot Skills

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As musicians occasionally report that their dextral facility is improved by recent exercise, it was hypothesized that manual dexterity would be influenced by a task requiring exertion. Before and after exertion on the Harvard Step Test, the experimental group's (n = 25) manual dexterity was tested on a grooved peg board. The control group's (n = 40) manual dexterity was measured before and after an inactive period. In both groups learning was significantly faster with the nondominant hand than with the dominant hand. Reasons why the hypothesis was not fully supported are discussed and suggestions for research noted.

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Effects of Exercise on Dexterity

Waldron

Anton

1995

Percept Mot Skills

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“…In spite of increasing understanding of movement disorders and reported improvements in all therapeutic modalities, the benefits of these treatments continue to be controversial, largely because the 413 19841 171, 413-427 NumBER4 (wmTm 1984) literature lacks documentation of the biological mechanisms for specific neuromuscular disorders and because of the lack of well-designed research studies on treatment effects. Within the past 10 years, electromyographic (EMG) feedback has been developed and frequently used as an alternative or adjunctive therapy for neuromuscular disorders (Basmajian, Gowland, Brandstater, Swanson, & Trotter, 1982;Brudny et al, 1976;Cataldo, Bird, & Cunningham, 1978;Finley, Niman, Standley, & Ender, 1976;Inman, 1979;Martin, 1981;Ortega, 1978;Prevo, Visser, & Vogelaar, 1982;Wolf, Baker, & Kelly, 1980;Wolf & Binder-MacLeod, 1983). Operant conditioning procedures not using biofeedback equipment, although frequently applied to other problems, have not often been used to improve motor control of the physically handicapped, despite reports in the literature of a few successfully treated cases (Ball, McCrady, & Hart, 1975;Block, 1978;Garber, 1971;Martin & Sachs, 1973;Sachs & Mayhall, 1971; Thompson, Iwata, & Poynter, 1979).…”

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Operant Treatment of Orofacial Dysfunction in Neuromuscular Disorders

Parker

Cataldo

Bourland³

et al. 1984

J of App Behav Analysis

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The popularity and reported success of biofeedback treatment for neuromuscular disorders has occurred despite a lack of research identifying the critical variables responsible for therapeutic gain. In this study, we assessed the degree to which severe neurological dysfunction could be improved by using one of the components present in all biofeedback treatment, contingency management. Three cases of orofacial dysfunction were treated by reinforcing specific improvements reliably detectable without the use of biofeedback equipment. The results showed that contingency management procedures alone were sufficient to improve overt motor responses but, unlike biofeedback treatment, did not produce decreases in the hypertonic muscle groups associated with the trained motor behavior. The findings suggest that sophisticated, expensive biofeedback equipment may not be necessary in treating some neuromuscular disorders and that important clinical gains may be achieved by redesigning the patient's daily environment to be contingently therapeutic, rather than only accommodating the disabilities of the physically handicapped.

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Toward an explicit technology of ecological validity

Fahmie

Rodriguez

Luczynski³

et al. 2023

J of App Behav Analysis

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Ecological validity refers to how closely an experiment aligns with real-world phenomena. In applied behavioral research, ecological validity may guide decisions about experimental settings, stimuli, people, and other design features. However, inconsistent use of the term ecological validity in the published literature has led to a somewhat disjointed technology. The purposes of this paper were to review current uses of the term "ecological validity" in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, propose ways to make a study more ecologically valid, and develop a checklist to assist in identifying the type and degree of ecological validity in any given study.

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Relaxation Exercise With Cerebral Palsied Adults Showing Spasticity

Cited by 15 publications

References 3 publications

Effects of Exercise on Dexterity

Effects of Exercise on Dexterity

Operant Treatment of Orofacial Dysfunction in Neuromuscular Disorders

Toward an explicit technology of ecological validity

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