background: rounded shoulder posture is a common abnormal posture in upper quarter. kinesiotape is a new intervention that recently used in rehabilitation. there are no studies have examined the effect of kinesiotape on rounded shoulder posture. therefore the purpose of this study was to determine the effect of scapular kinesiotaping and pectoralis minor stretching exercise on forward shoulder ...

CONTEXT Neurodynamic tension affects hamstring extensibility and stretch tolerance and is considered important in hamstring injury management. Neurodynamic tension was postulated to affect segmental muscle extensibility and stretch tolerance and potentially also to demonstrate extrasegmental and contralateral effects. OBJECTIVES To assess the effects of a novel sciatic-tibial neurodynamic ten...

We present a stereodynamics study of the dissociative chemisorption of vibrationally excited methane on the (100), (110), and (111) planes of a nickel single crystal surface. Using linearly polarized infrared excitation of the antisymmetric C-H stretch normal mode vibration (ν(3)), we aligned the angular momentum and C-H stretch amplitude of CH(4)(ν(3)) in the laboratory frame and measured the ...

The tonic vibration reflex (TVR) has been studied in the quadriceps and triceps surae muscles of 34 spastic, 15 Parkinsonism, and 10 normal subjects. The TVR of spasticity develops rapidly, reaching a plateau level within 2-4 sec of the onset of vibration. The tonic contraction was often preceded by a phasic spike which appeared to be a vibration-induced equivalent of the tendon jerk. The initi...

Cyclic stretch of alveolar epithelial cells (AEC) can alter normal lung barrier function. Fibroblast growth factor-10 (FGF-10), an alveolar type II cell mitogen that is critical for lung development, may have a role in promoting AEC repair. We studied whether cyclic stretch induces AEC DNA damage and whether FGF-10 would be protective. Cyclic stretch (30 min of 30% strain amplitude and 30 cycle...

OBJECTIVE The dynamics of ventricular fibrillation (VF) in the presence of heart failure (HF) are different from those in the normal heart. This has been attributed solely to HF-induced electrophysiologic remodelling. We hypothesized that acute stretch and ischaemia, which are normally present during VF, might contribute significantly to the altered VF dynamics in HF. METHODS HF was induced i...

in this paper a first step in classifying the fuzzy normalsubgroups of a finite group is made. explicit formulas for thenumber of distinct fuzzy normal subgroups are obtained in theparticular cases of symmetric groups and dihedral groups.

to investigate the effect of deficit irrigation and macro and micro fertilizers on morpho-physiological characteristics of satureja a field experiment was conducted in agricultural research station of haji-abad (hormozghan province-iran) a split plot randomized complete block design with three replications during the growing season of 2012-2014. irrigation treatments consisted of normal, modera...