Objective: According to the Biomechanical viewpoint, Foot is the functional unit to maintain a balance and transfer the body weight to the ground as well as preparing a lever system for body motion. The purpose of this study is the impact of instantaneous insole on Balance performance of Adolescents with a flat foot and Pes cavus. Methods: 65 Adolescents of Tehran City (11-14 years old) volunta...

Objectives: Balance is an index to determine the level of independency of elderly (65 years and older) in their daily activities. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of a functional training program on static and dynamic balance of elderly male able-bodied subjects. Methods & Materials: Thirty elderly male subjects (age:70.83±3 y, weight:70.60±2.44 kg, height:1.78±2.28 m) par...

this studyinvestigated therelations between examinees’ academic knowledge and theirperformanceonreading section of ielts and toefl (ibt) through using generalizabilitytheory. g-theory was utilized to investigate the effects of subtest, test items, participants and academic background on the reliability of ielts and toefl (ibt) score. tosamplethe subjectsofthissurvey,a placement testwasadministe...

  Background & Aim: Although surgery as a means of therapy is used today and saves many patients’ lives but it has also some complications. One of its most important psychological complications is preoperative anxiety. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of nursing process based care on patients' anxiety of candidates for women’s elective surgery.   Material & Methods: Using a ran...

until now many studies have been done over recent decades throughout the world to show the right age to start english. in iran, research is still at an early stage in terms of evaluating teachers’ beliefs about teaching children english. the problem of at what age to start teaching english and how to teach english to elementary school children has not been solved neither in this country nor els...