A team of experts in the field of reconstructive surgery for leprosy-affected people was identified. Using the Delphi method, an exercise was undertaken to ascertain whether a consensus on essential criteria and indicators for Tibialis Posterior Transfer (TPT) could be reached among the team. This paper describes the Delphi Exercise, giving results at each stage of consensus development. The fi...

Non-specific tendovaginitis is a common cause of pain and disability, especially in relation to the wrist and ankle and to the proximal parts of the flexor sheaths of the fingers. Many papers have been written describing the condition in general and the features when particular tendon sheaths are involved, but few accounts have concerned the tendon of the tibialis posterior. Lapidus and Seidens...

©2004 British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery doi:10.1302/0301-620X.86B7. 15084 $2.00 J Bone Joint Surg [Br] 2004;86-B:939-46. An acquired flat-foot deformity caused by dysfunction of the tendon of tibialis posterior is common but often missed. Rupture of the tendon was first described in 1953.1 In 1969 Kettelkamp and Alexander2 published results of surgical exploration. They conclu...

Pencek, R. Richard, Alessandra Bertoldo, Julie Price, Carol Kelley, Claudio Cobelli, and David E. Kelley. Dose-responsive insulin regulation of glucose transport in human skeletal muscle. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 290: E1124–E1130, 2006. First published January 3, 2006; doi:10.1152/ajpendo.00598.2004.—Glucose transport is regarded as the principal rate control step governing insulinstimulat...

BACKGROUND Fibroblast growth factor-2 (FGF-2) protein level has been shown to be elevated in aged mice muscle compared to adult mice. It activates the satellite cell quiescence, which leads to satellite cell depletion and may accelerate aging process. The purpose of this study was to see the effect of resistance exercise on skeletal muscle FGF-2 protein level in aged mice. METHODS This study ...

Extensive research has been performed examining eccentric contraction and related muscle injury. Only a few studies have examined muscle failure due to an imposed tissue strain. Those that have examined failure tend to investigate active muscle failure and define failure as complete tearing of the muscle. However, muscle damage is known to occur well before a tear is apparent, and failure may b...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to investigate and evaluate the timing and amount of muscle activity during forward-stepping motion. [Subjects and Methods] Seven healthy subjects participated in this study. The task was to step forward from a static standing position. Timing and amount of muscle activity were measured during the task. Muscle activities of the stance leg and the swing le...

peribaea tibialis (robineau-desvoidy) and compsilura concinnata (meigen), which are reported for the first time from iran, are solitary parasitoids of rice armyworm larvae, mythimna unipuncta (haworth), in the rice fields of western mazandaran. our studies during 1999-2001 showed that these parasitoids were active on m. unipuncta larvae of different generations, especially 2nd and 3rd generatio...

CONTEXT The mechanisms that contribute to the development of chronic ankle instability are not understood. Investigators have developed a hypothetical model in which neuromuscular alterations that stem from damaged ankle ligaments are thought to affect periarticular and proximal muscle activity. However, the retrospective nature of these studies does not allow a causal link to be established. ...