This study investigated the relationship between forward head posture and temporomandibular disorder symptoms. Thirty-three temporomandibular disorder patients with predominant complaints of masticatory muscle pain were compared with an age- and gender-matched control group. Head position was measured from photographs taken with a plumb line drawn from the ceiling to the lateral malleolus of th...

Visual forward models predict future visual data from the previous visual sensory state and a motor command. The adaptive acquisition of visual forward models in robotic applications is plagued by the high dimensionality of visual data which is not handled well by most machine learning and neural network algorithms. Moreover, the forward model has to learn which parts of the visual output are r...

Sensorimotor adaptation, the ability to adjust motor output in response to persistent changes in sensory input, is a key function of the central nervous system. Although a great deal is known about vestibulo-ocular reflex and saccadic adaptation, relatively little is known about the behavior and neural mechanisms underlying gaze adaptation when the head is free to move. In an attempt to underst...

BACKGROUND There is sparse literature that provides evidence of cervical and shoulder postural alignment of 15 to 17-year-old adolescents and that analyzes sex differences. OBJECTIVES To characterize the postural alignment of the head and shoulder in the sagittal plane of 15 to 17-year-old Portuguese adolescents in natural erect standing and explore the relationships between three postural an...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Confocal laser endomicroscopy (CLE) is a novel, noninvasive technique used to obtain microanatomical images of the inner lining of hollow organs. It has been used in a variety of clinical specialties to aid in the diagnosis and treatment planning of inflammatory and neoplastic processes. Our intent is to provide an up-to-date review of the literature in the setting of head and...

With the increasing availability of surface extraction techniques for magnetic resonance and x-ray computed tomography images, realistic head models can be readily generated as forward models in the analysis of electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG) data. Inverse analysis of this data, however, requires that the forward model be computationally efficient. We propose two m...

[Purpose] This study compared the effects of pilates and an exercise program on the craniovertebral angle, cervical range of motion, pain, and muscle fatigue in subjects with a forward head posture (FHP). [Subjects and Methods] A total of 28 sedentary females (age 20 to 39 years) with FHP were randomly assigned to pilates (n=14) and combined (n=14) exercise groups. The study was a randomized, c...

Comparison of the Effect and Sustainability 8 Weeks Corrective Exercises Based on ‎NASM Approach Sahrman Forward Head Posture Neck Pain in Mobile ‎Phone Users Young Men Tabriz

What is head stabilization in birds? When the body of a bird is held in the hand and rotated or moved in different directions the head often appears ‘locked in space’ or glued to the spot, and does not move with the rest of the body. To maintain this stable position the bird has, of course, to make complex compensatory movements of the neck. This can be seen clearly in chickens, pigeons, owls a...

In this paper we describe a new finite-difference method (FDM) EEG forward problem formulation which accounts for anisotropy of the various head tissues in the volume conductor model of the head. Our proposal, being based on FDM, derives the head model directly from patient’s specific clinical images. We present here the numerical FD formulation and the comparison of the proposed method with a ...