Purpose: Proprioception is a part of the somatosensory system responsible for sending information to the central nervous system to monitor the status of various body parts relative to each another. One of the main causes of impaired proprioception is fatigue. In the following study, the effects of fatigue on quadriceps muscle and hence on knee proprioception in healthy subjects was studied.&nbs...

in human beings, the balance control is a result of an integration of physical and psychological factors and people show different reactions when feel anxious or face stability threatened conditions such as standing on an unstable surface. university students, particularly the female ones, are a group of the society who are prone to face anxieties. the current study focused on the effects of an...

daily development of the human knowledge, promotion of biomedical technologies and improvement of physicians' ability in diagnosis and treatment of different types of diseases have always accompanied plenty of discussions and challengeable subjects, especially from the view point of ethical issues. obtaining deep and accurate recognition of these subjects, the attention of the physicians and th...

in this study, the effect of cognitive load (cl) training on duration and accuracy of bimanual coordination (bc) task was investigated. for this purpose, athletic male students of shiraz university were randomly divided into 4 groups: g1 with low cl, g2 with intermediate cl, g3 with high cl and g4 control. the subjects practiced for 6 weeks, 3 sessions a week, 6 blocks, 12 trials. the subjects ...