background: diabetes is a common disease that can lead to metabolic abnormalities and chronic complications. today, the positive role of physical activity and exercise, especially walking in health human society and has been approved in prevention and control many complications including diabetes. today, the positive role of physical activities and exercise , especially hi wal king in the healt...

Cognitive and mobility functions are involved in health-related quality of life (HRQoL). The present cross-sectional study aimed at investigating what facets of efficient cognition and functional mobility interactively contribute to mental and physical HRQoL. Fifty-six healthy older individuals (aged 65-75 years) were evaluated for mental and physical HRQoL, core cognitive executive functions (...

The measurement of foot-surface contact position would aid the understanding of player movement and step strategy in sports such as tennis. However during competition, it is impracticable to instrument players. A markerless, view-independent, footsurface contact identification (FSCi) system was developed and validated. The FSCi system analysed standard colour video sequences of walking and runn...

An informal review of literature on exercise and cancer was undertaken in order to examine the role of exercise in cancer prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and late survivorship. Population-wide studies show that cancer incidence decreases with increasing physical activity levels. Exercise can decrease the side effects of anticancer therapy, and can aid in recovery and rehabilitation follo...

Pressures on the foot during walking are affected by the weight of the person and the walking velocity. It is also found that both the magnitude and duration of the dynamic foot pressures are important in ulcer formation in the neuropathic feet of persons with Hansen's disease (HD). Therefore, new parameters, Normalized Peak Pressure (NPP) and Pressure Contact Ratio (PCR), are calculated from d...

OBJECTIVE We report here on a patient with intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH), who showed unusually delayed motor recovery of the leg, which started at 6 months after ICH onset. CASE REPORT A 53-year-old man underwent craniotomy and drainage for a right putaminal ICH. The patient presented with complete paralysis of the left extremities at ICH onset. Despite having undergone rehabilitation start...

The study explored the effect of music on the temporal aspects of walking behavior in a real outdoor urban setting. First, spontaneous synchronization between the beat of the music and step tempo was explored. The effect of motivational and non-motivational music (Karageorghis et al., 1999) on the walking speed was also studied. Finally, we investigated whether music can mask the effects of vis...

Results: For 54 days before commencement of optokinetic chart stimulation the patient was bed bound and being fed by a nasogastric tube. She had no trunk control. The aggregate manual muscle strength was 0/5 with best strength of 1/5 only in bilateral shoulder and hip muscle groups. After treatment the patient fed herself independently and was mobile with a wheeled zimmer walking aid and assist...