Physical Medicine Interventions for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, the Including Avoiding Invasive Airway Tubes

21 may be deficient in some manner. 43 Thus, not “quality of life” but only life satisfaction should be considered. Interestingly, the severely disabled with DMD, 43 generally have very positive views of their lives and life satisfaction and find quality of life in interpersonal activities. They are significantly more satisfied with life than health-care professional estimates of their quality of life. 43 Crucial for this is often the availability of personal attendant-care services and assistive equipment. Figure 10. JACO TM (Kinova Robotics, Quebec) User-controlled robotic arm learned to be operated in seconds to enable most upper limb functions, inclu- ding feeding