Introduction: Hamstring injuries are common in physically active people and athletes. Lack of hamstring flexibility is the one most important characteristics The aim this study was to investigate effects three different stretching techniques on professional football players. Materials Methods: Fifty-five male players between ages 18–20 years old were involved study. participants divided into 3 ...

Tight hamstring syndrome (THS) is a symptom complex which has a varied pathogenesis. The syndrome usually occurs in childhood and adolescent period. It is characterized by tightness of lumbar, ischial and crural muscles. Case Report 1: 17 year old male was complaining of low back and right leg pain which spread to the back right leg for last two month. He walking with limited forward flexion an...

AIM A cognitive test and an informant report questionnaire were used together to investigate whether their combined use could improve the accuracy of detecting dementia in a memory clinic, compared with either test used alone. METHOD The subjects were 323 patients assessed at a memory clinic. The Mini-Mental State Examination and the short form of the Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decl...

The claim that the psychological study of morality underwent a revolution at the beginning of the twenty-first century and that this revolution was an affective one is now commonplace: emotions, rather than reflection and reasoning from explicit moral principles, were suddenly supposed to play the prominent role in moral thought and behaviour (Haidt 2001, 2007). Though supporters of this revolu...

On May 16, 1990, Division L (Nosocomial Infections) of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) held a seminar on methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) as part of the Society’s 90th annual meeting. The seminar was convened by Maury E. Mulligan, MD, and one of the editors (AIH). Subsequently, the speakers submitted manuscripts related to topics they presented. Because of the mark...