background: chronic mental illnesses affect cognitive status and behavior, which lead to social and communication impairment and behavioral problems. this research investigated the influence of communication skills training on aggression and quality of life of the patients with chronic mental illnesses. methods: this study is a quasi-experimental study with pretest and posttest. first, a total ...

Background and Aims Balance deficiency is one of the risk factors for falls, injury or even death elderly. This study aimed to investigate The Effect a Fall Proof training on balance fear falling in older women was conducted. Methods quasi-experimental with pretest-posttest design. Thirty elderly aged 60-70 years were selected as available sample. Subjects randomly divided into control (n=15) e...

Background: Aerobic exercise combined with breathing can be an integral part of diabetes mellitus treatment. This single-center, randomized, parallel-group study investigated the effect combination aerobic slow deep and mindfulness meditation on glucose cortisol levels women type 2 (T2DM). Materials Methods: Fifty-eight middle-aged T2DM (mean age: 45.67 ± 2.92 years) were randomly assigned to e...

Patients with complete paraplegia after spinal cord injury (SCI) are unable to stand or walk on their own. Standing exercise decreases the risk of decubitus ulcers, osteoporosis, and joint deformities in patients with SCI. Conventional gait training for complete paraplegia requires excessive upper limb usage for weight bearing and is difficult in cases of complete quadriplegia. The purpose of t...

background & aims: prevalence of uremic itch is 30% in patients on dialysis, and routine treatments are often ineffective.   materials & methods: we selected 40 hd patients and prescribed 100 mg gabapentin after each hd session for 20, and prescribe placebo for the other 20 patients. initial dose of gabapentin was 100mg after every thrice-weekly hd and altered the administered dose in the base ...

A spoken dialogue system capable of maintaining a humanmachine conversation over a telephone must simultaneously maintain many dialogue sessions with different callers and third-party servers running applications over the Internet. There are three main issues to be addressed. First, the caller’s identity has to be passed between each dialogue turn. Secondly, the dialogue state and connections t...

Aim of this study was to investigate the feasibility of electrotactile feedback in closed loop training of force control during the routine grasping task. The feedback was provided using an array electrode and a simple six-level spatial coding, and the experiment was conducted in three amputee subjects. The psychometric tests confirmed that the subjects could perceive and interpret the electrot...