INTRODUCTION The aim of the study was to assess the influence of a supervised programme of exercises on ankle joint mobility in patients with venous leg ulcerations. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study was carried out between 2008 and 2009 at the Venous Ulcer Treatment Outpatient Clinic and Clinic of General and Vascular Surgery of the Dr Jan Biziel University Hospital no. 2 in Bydgoszcz. It was a...

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Objectives: It is important to recognize any risk factors for the development of injuries in the athletic population. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between joint hyper mobility and low back pain in Iranian hyper mobile and non-hyper mobile athletes. Methods: 50 athletic patients with low back pain (age=23.20±12.79 years) and 51 healthy athletes (age=24.28&pl...

A systematic analysis of the mobility of closed chain manipulators with passive joints is given. The main observation presented in this paper is that the mobility of the manipulator, considering the passive joints only, should always be zero. Further, for the manipulator to be fault tolerant, the mobility should remain zero when actuator failure occurs for an arbitrary joint. We present a simpl...

Definition.-A diagnosis of peri-arthritis of the shoulder is made when a patient exhibits pain in the region of the shoulder and limited mobility of the joint, apparently of spontaneous onset or following slight injury. The x-ray appearances may show either nothing abnormal or calcific deposits in the capsule or periarticular tissue. This syndrome is not a disease sui generis, since the underly...

BACKGROUND Agricultural soils represent a potential sink for increasing amounts of different nanomaterials that nowadays inevitably enter the environment. Knowledge on the relation between their actual exposure concentrations and biological effects on crops and symbiotic organisms is therefore of high importance. In this part of a joint companion study, we describe the vertical translocation as...

F lexibility is often downplayed as unimportant to fitness. However, flexibility training is imperative to maintain full range of motion (ROM) of joints, particularly in individuals with type 2 diabetes, who may experience limited joint mobility due to glycation of joint structures (1). Maladies such as “frozen shoulder” are common complaints in type 2 diabetes (2). Conflicting evidence exists ...