woman who was referred to a physical therapist for management of chronic low back pain. The patient’s symptoms began 1 year prior, with no apparent cause. Initially, the patient’s low back pain episodes were self-limiting, with episodes typically lasting less than 10 days. However, pain and dysfunction increased over the previous 4 months, and, in addition to low back pain, the patient’s pain p...

Aim: To determine whether preoperative use of the highly cyclooxygenase-2-specific inhibitor rofecoxib combined with spinal anesthesia offers superior postoperative analgesia compared to spinal anesthesia alone. Methods: Single-centre, randomised, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial, including 40 adult patients undergoing elective open inguinal hernia repair. Both the control (n=20) and tr...

In this paper, we did a comprehensive survey on the evolution of defense in Linux softwares. Our survey mainly focused on Stack Canary, CFI and ASLR. In order to measure the coverage of Stack Canary, we collected more than 1 million package data. Besides, we also found that ASLR is an operating system behavior, and CFI was still not widely implemented in production compilers. Beyond the survey,...

BACKGROUND Straight raising of the legs in the supine position or Trendelenburg positioning has been used to treat hypotension or shock, but the advantages of these positions are not clear and under debate. We performed a crossover study to evaluate the circulatory effect of full flexion of the hips and knees in the supine position (exaggerated lithotomy), and compare it with straight leg raisi...

Non-somatic causes of pain may aggravate painful complaints and complicate the conservative management of diseases such as lumbo-sacral disk root disease. The two-point discrimination test has been used for assessment of diseases, which change patients' skin sensation. This study aims to find out how applicable is two-point discrimination test in the conservative treatment of lumbo-sacral disk ...

The aims of this study were: 1) to determine the differences in hamstring extensibility between kneeling and forward legs in a group of canoeists; 2) to compare hamstring extensibility between canoeists and kayakers; and 3) to compare the sagittal spinal posture and pelvic tilt in the maximal trunk flexion with knees extended in kayakers and canoeists. Ninety-nine young male paddlers (17.51±6.1...

BACKGROUND The pathogenesis of fifth metatarsal stress fractures remains uncertain. HYPOTHESIS Physical characteristics and environmental factors, which have received limited attention in the literature thus far, might be involved in the development of fifth metatarsal stress fractures. STUDY DESIGN Case-control study; Level of evidence, 3. METHODS To test the study hypothesis, a medical ...

Abstract Study aim : To determine the difference in joint angles of shoulder, hip, and trunk (angle upper torso lower torso) during vaulting between male pole vaulters with without chronic low back pain (LBP) to examine relationship range motion (ROM) maximum angle same all participants. Material methods This cross-sectional study included 17 vaulters. The participants were divided into two gro...