The Japanese Orthopaedic Association has proposed the term locomotive syndrome to designate a condition of individuals in high-risk groups with musculoskeletal disease who are highly likely to require nursing care. This study investigates the influence of spinal factors on locomotive syndrome in Japanese men. A total of 105 men older than 50 years were enrolled in the study. Those answering yes...

BACKGROUND The prediction of lumbar back muscle degeneration is important because chronic low back pain and spino-pelvic imbalance have been known to be related to it. However, gender difference should be considered because there are different quality and volume of muscles between genders. The purpose of this study was to search for clinical and radiological factors to predict the degree of lum...

The Nandongzi landslide occurred in the Yanshan region of North China. From 2017, slope has been significantly deformed after several excavations. Field investigations show that is a special toppling deposit does not have basic conditions. deformation mechanism become difficult issue for engineers, attracting attention scientists. Joint, surface, and borehole lithology surveys revealed surface ...

A simple mirrorless plastic optical fiber displacement sensor was used to determine the concentration of paracetamol (PCM) in an aqueous solution. Paracetamol concentrations between 5 and 45 ppm were tested by proposed sensor. With a mirror, substantial sensitivity observed output power changed against 0.0403 mW/μm for front slope 0.023 back with linearities more than 99%. On other hand, nonmir...

INTRODUCTION Little data is available on the relationship between sagittal spinopelvic parameters and health related quality of life (HRQOL) in osteoporotic patients. The aim of this study was to identify relationships between spinopelvic parameters and HRQOL in osteoporosis. MATERIAL AND METHODS The patient and control groups comprised 138 osteoporotic patients and 40 controls. All underwent...

A 1977 tundra fire burned a hillslope where prefire soils and vegetation ranged from poorly drained moist tussock-shrub tundra on the lower slopes to well-drained dwarf shrub tundra on the back slope and very poorly drained wet sedge meadow on the flat crest. We sampled the vegetation on this slope before the fire and at 8 sites following the fire at irregular intervals from 1 yr to 25 yr. Duri...