The effect of dorsiflexion was investigated on range of passive straight leg raising (SLR) and on inter-rater reliability with 35 patients reporting unilateral lumbar pain with or without ipsilateral leg symptoms. Ranges of SLR and SLR with dorsiflexion (SLR/DF) to onset of lumbar or leg symptoms (P1) were independently measured using a gravity goniometer by pairs of different physiotherapists ...

Background: Low back pain is one of the most important health problems. Disk herniation is one of the common causes of low back pain. Accurate examination is the best and simplest diagnostic methods. Physical examination, Straight leg raise (SLR) and neurologic tests as well as other tests are usually used to locate the exact place of herniation. Paraclinical studies such as magnetic resonance ...

Feedbacks among inundation, sediment trapping, and vegetation productivity help maintain coastal wetlands facing sea-level rise (SLR). However, when the SLR rate exceeds a threshold, coastal wetlands can collapse. Understanding the threshold helps address key challenges in ecology-nonlinear response of ecosystems to environmental change, promotes communication between ecologists and resource ma...

fMRI has been a popular way for encoding and decoding human visual cortex activity. A previous research reconstructed binary image using a sparse logistic regression (SLR) with fMRI activity patterns as its input. In this article, based on SLR, we propose a new sparse logistic regression with a tunable regularization parameter (SLR-T), which includes the SLR and maximum likelihood regression (M...

To investigate soluble leptin receptor (sLR) in plasma, specific anti-sLR monoclonal antibodies were developed. Western blot analysis and size exclusion fractionation demonstrated sLR in plasma with a molecular mass of approximately 180,000. Next to this, the presence of sLR-leptin complexes in plasma was confirmed. Using the developed monoclonal antibodies, a specific sLR ELISA was developed, ...

The purpose of this study was to analyze the straight-leg-raising (SLR) maneuver while the ankle was fixed in dorsiflexion or relaxed in plantar flexion. Twenty-two healthy subjects underwent active and passive SLR with the ankle in each position. We used cinematography to document movement of the right lower limb and pelvis and electromyography to document hamstring muscle activity. Analyses o...