Gut up and go

Get-Up-And-Go Hospitals and Hotels

Get-up-and-go Hospitals and Hotels Don't get me wrong, I am all gratitude as a patient, a congenital insomniac, and love things going on at night. We live in times of financial entrepreneurism. Thatcherism rules. At the moment there is little hint of extension into the tourist industry on the part of hospitals. This could be changed a bit. John Burton delicately touched on the subject in this j...

تکرارپذیری نسبی و مطلق آزمون Timed Up and Go در سالمندان ساکن اجتماع و جوانان سالم

Objectives: Relative and absolute reliability are psychometric properties of the test that many clinical decisions are based on them. In many cases, only relative reliability takes into consideration while the absolute reliability is also very important. Methods & Materials: Eleven community-dwelling older adults aged 65 years and older (69.64±3.58) and 20 healthy young in the age ran...

Clean up or go crazy

A utophagy is needed to clear up dementia-inducing proteins from the cell, report Filimonenko et al. During autophagy, the cell gobbles up its own internal components into membranous structures called autophago-somes, which fuse with multivesicular bodies (MVBs) before delivery to lysosomes, where the sequestered material is degraded. Autophagy is particularly important at times of cell stress ...

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Concurrent Validity of Functional Gait Assessment, Timed Up and Go, and Gait Speed Tests in the Persian Community-Dwelling Elderly

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the concurrent validity of the Farsi version of Functional Gait Assessment (FGA), Timed Up & Go (TUG), and Gait Speed tests in Persian communitydwelling older adults. Methods: Subjects were 100 males in falling or no falling history group (50 subjects in each group). Subjects were community-dwelling adults aged 60-90 years who were living...