OBJECTIVES: The aim of the present study was to test the association between muscular strength, functional limitations, body composition measurements and indexes of sarcopenia in a sample of community ...

On PBS's Newshour last week, Jon Schull, a research scientist at the Rochester Institute of Technology, made some points about disability. He said that in a world with lots of small print, the ...

About 15 percent of the world's population -- some 785 million people -- has a significant physical or mental disability, including about 5 percent of children, according to a new report prepared ...

Although, overall, joint damage correlates with physical disability in rheumatoid arthritis, damage to cartilage and to bone might contribute unequally. New data suggest that cartilage damage has the ...

A mobility disability is a physical impairment that affects movement. If it is long term, a mobility disability could qualify for disability benefits. A mobility disability is a physical disability or ...

Correspondence to Dr Leanne Hassett, Sydney Musculoskeletal Health, The University of Sydney Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney, New South Wales NSW 2050, Australia; ...

Diana H. Rintala, Ph.D. Mary Ellen Young, Ph.D. Catherine C. Foley, Ph.D. I know the feeling of being anxious to form relationships very well, but no one approaches you for a date; raised to expect ...

For those who have never heard of the social model of disability it is best explained as the civil rights view of disablement. It separates impairment from disability and focuses on the responsibility ...

What do you really need to know about disability? If you’re not disabled yourself, and don’t have a child, spouse, brother or sister, or parent with disabilities, how knowledgeable and up to date on ...

In an earlier study, a consistent preference pattern in the rank-ordering of various types of physical disabilities was demonstrated among children aged 10 and 11. We suggested this pattern reflected ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The synagogue was packed with hundreds of family, friends and community members to see my Jewish coming-of-age ceremony. Relatives flew ...

Joker's reliance on tropes overshadows the valid critiques on disability culture its wants to make. By Kristen Lopez [This story contains spoilers for Joker.] In Joker’s examination of mental illness, ...