[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to examine the different effects of long-term intervention between proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF) and neuromuscular joint facilitation (NJF) patterns for the pelvis on chronic low back pain as assessed by the cross-sectional area of the multifidus muscle and the thickness of the transversus abdominis muscle. [Subjects] The subjects were 1...

Background. Despite the marked advances in the perioperative management of the liver transplant recipient, an assessment of clinically significant graft injury following preservation and reperfusion remains difficult. In this study, we hypothesized that size-adjusted AST could better approximate real AST values and consequently provide a better reflection of the extent of graft damage, with bet...

PRIMARY nonfunction (PNF) of the liver is an inexact term and investigators continue to debate the site and origin of preservation injury. Some grafts with PNF fail in the operating room. while other grafts have to be replaced between I and 14 days postoperatively. The pathology of such grafts displays a spectrum of findings ranging from marked hepatocellular swelling and cholestasis to massive...

BACKGROUND Clinical results of percutaneous needle fasciotomy (PNF) in Japanese patients with Dupuytren's disease are reported. METHODS In this prospective study, 51 patients (103 fingers: 1 index, 9 middle, 47 ring, and 46 small) underwent PNF at 99 metacarpophalangeal (MCP) and 68 proximal interphalangeal (PIP) joints. Patients were assessed postoperatively after 1 day, at 1, 2, 4, 6, and 8...

INTRODUCTION The ability to preserve organs prior to transplant is essential to the organ allocation process. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study is to describe the functional relationship between cold-ischemia time (CIT) and primary nonfunction (PNF), patient and graft survival in liver transplant. METHODS To identify relevant articles Medline, EMBASE and the Cochrane database, including t...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to identify the effects of oculo-motor exercise, functional electrical stimulation (FES), and proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF) on the visual perception of spatial neglect patients. [Subjects and Methods] The subjects were randomly allocated to 3 groups: an oculo-motor exercise (OME) group, a FES with oculo-motor exercise (FOME) group, and a...

[Purpose] This study investigated the change in hip muscle strength of younger persons after neuromuscular joint facilitation (NJF) treatment. [Subjects] The subjects were 45 healthy young people, who were divided into two groups: a NJF group and a proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF) group. The NJF group consisted of 21 subjects (11 males, 10 females), and the PNF group consisted of...

El Proyecto Sociointegrador tiene como objetivo analizar la integración de lectura y escritura estrategia didáctica desde función docente para el fortalecimiento en formación académica los Programas Nacionales Formación (PNF) Cefounes Guárico. Para logro del debe asumirse una revisión bibliográfica aunado a interpretación contenidos. Las Técnicas recolección Información fue las fichas descripti...

OBJECTIVE Personalized normative feedback (PNF) has been used extensively to reduce alcohol consumption, particularly among heavy drinkers. However, the majority of PNF studies have used only descriptive norms (real or perceived pervasiveness of a given behavior). The purpose of the current study was to explore the efficacy of PNF both with and without an injunctive message indicating approval ...