This preliminary study aimed to assess skin temperature (Tsk) asymmetries before and after on-court training in elite young tennis players find the correlation between these demographic data, racquet characteristics, pain fatigue variation. Thermal images of nine were taken two a half hours standardised training. correlated age, years experience, weight, string tension, body mass index (BMI), v...

Mirror therapy is a method that increases the functionality of affected extremity and effective in treatment chronic pain. In this study, we aimed to investigate effect mirror on shoulder impingement syndrome. The study included 62 participants, including 31 intervention group (IG) control (CG) who met inclusion criteria. IG received with conventional physiotherapy while CG only physiotherapy. ...

This paper proposes a new neuro-fuzzy method to model the dynamic behavior of com'plex system.s based on real experimental data. First, we investigate the firing strength of rules by a fuzzy C-means clustering method. Then, we retrieve the membership functions of input variables by a neuro-fuzzy network. Finally, we identify the parameters of linear local models by recursive least squares. I n ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the degree of kinesiophobia in patients with chronic pain, to examine differences in kinesiophobia and other pain-related characteristics between men and women, and to examine differences in pain-related characteristics between patients with high and low levels of kinesiophobia. DESIGN Postal survey. SUBJECTS/PATIENTS Eighty-eight men and 173 women with chronic musc...

Accuracy in processing time estimation of different manufacturing operations is fundamental to get more competitive prices and higher profits in an industry. The manufacturing times of a machine depend on several input variables and, for each class or type of product, a regression function for that machine can be defined. Time estimations are used for implementing production plans. These plans ...

The anterior commissure (AC) is one of the important commissure projections in the brain that conveys information from one side of the nervous system to the other. During development, the axons from the anterior AC (aAC) and the posterior AC (pAC) course in the same dorsoventral plane and converge into a common fascicle for midline crossing. Previously, we reported that Tsukushi (TSK), a member...

BACKGROUND Complaints of arm, neck and shoulder are common in Western societies. Of those consulting a general practitioner (GP) with non-traumatic arm, neck or shoulder complaints, about 50% do not recover within 6 months. Kinesiophobia (also known as fear of movement/(re)injury) may also play a role in these complaints, as it may lead to avoidance behaviour resulting in hypervigilance to bodi...

Swinkels-Meewisse et al. (2003) examined some of the psychometric properties of both the Dutch Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia (TSK-DV) and the Fear-Avoidance Beliefs Questionnaire (FABQ) in acute low back pain patients. We congratulate the authors for their work; early identification of acute (low back) pain patients at risk of becoming chronic may be of prime importance to reduce both economic ...

In this paper we describe a fuzzy logic based approach for providing biologically based motivations to be used in evolutionary mobile robot learning. Takagi-Sugeno-Kang (TSK) fuzzy logic is used to motivate a small mobile robot to acquire complex behaviors and to perform environment recognition. This method is implemented and tested in behavior based navigation and action sequence based environ...

This study suggests new learning laws for Adaptive Network based Fuzzy Inference System that is structured on the basis of TSK type III as a system identifier. Stable learning algorithms for consequence parts of TSK type III rules are proposed on the basis of the Lyapunov stability theory and some constraints are obtained. Simulation results are given to validate the results. It is shown that i...