AIM This paper reports a study examining the relationships between demographic characteristics, social support, anxiety, coping and defence among women with possible breast cancer. BACKGROUND Awaiting a possible breast cancer diagnosis is an anxiety-provoking situation that demands coping. Social support and demographic characteristics have been reported to influence coping and well-being, bu...

PURPOSE It seems that there is an association between the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and stability of the knee. This study aimed to evaluate the balance condition of the injured and non-injured sides of the coper and non-coper ACL-D (deficient) subjects during single and bilateral standing conditions. METHODS This case-control study was carried out on 10 coper and 5 non-coper ACL-D knee...

INTRODUCTION The present study aimed to replicate and validate the empirically derived subgroup classification based on the Multidimensional Pain Inventory (MPI) in a sample of highly disabled fibromyalgia (FM) patients. Second, it examined how the identified subgroups differed in their response to an intensive, interdisciplinary inpatient pain management program. METHODS Participants were 11...

background: daily increased rate of anterior cruciate ligament (acl) injuries in athletes calls for more investigation in these patients to differentiate copers from noncoper acl-deficient (acld) knees as soon as possible. objectives: the current study aims to introduce a new electromyographic protocol, named voluntary response index (vri), that might help to categorize and differentiate patien...

The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness, as well as cost-effectiveness, of combined manipulative therapy, stabilizing exercises, specialist consultation, and patient education (combination treatment) compared with that from specialist consultation and patient education alone (consultation) for chronic low back pain (CLBP). Secondary objectives were to examine the predictive factor...

Introduction The ankle sprain is one of the most prevalent traumatic injuries in sport, associated with a significant risk developing Chronic Ankle Instability (CAI) [1 Brown C, Padua D, Marshall SW, et al. Individuals mechanical instability exhibit different motion patterns than those functional and copers. Clin Biomech. 2008;23(6):822–831.[Crossref], [PubMed], [Web Science ®] , [Google Schola...

While remaining in broad agreement with the overall position developed and defended by Kiverstein, I identify and discuss what I take to be a number of problems with the details of the argument. These concern (a) the claim that a certain temporal structure to conscious experience is necessary for there to be a minimal sense of self, (b) the alleged ubiquitous presence in experience of a minimal...