BACKGROUND Different research techniques indicate alterations in muscle tissue and in neuromuscular control of aching muscles in patients with chronic localized pain. Ultrasound can be used for analysis of muscle tissue dynamics in clinical practice. AIM This study introduces a new muscle tissue sensitive ultrasound technique in order to provide a new methodology for providing a description o...

The glossopharyngeal, vagus, and accessory cranial nerves pass through the jugular foramen and may be involved by transforaminal tumors.1,2 Weakness of the muscles supplied by these cranial nerves may simulate the bulbar variant of ALS or myasthenia gravis. Here we report a 94-year-old woman with a schwannoma of the left jugular foramen (figure, A, B, C, D) who presented with a 4-year history o...

Stretching seeks to increase performance by promoting flexibility. In addition muscle strength and endurance training, flexibility training is a crucial part of physical conditioning programs. A joints or group joints’ potential range motion can be used describe Post-facilitation stretching techniques are important may the technique choice in therapeutic practice. It uses mechanical stimulus or...

The aim of this study was to assess the muscle functional connectivity obtained from surface electromyogram (SEMG) during unilateral and bilateral texting on a smart-phone as well as standard text entry on a personal computer. Fourteen healthy adults participated in the study. The SEMG signals from the left and right proximal: cervical erector spinae, upper trapezius, lower trapezius and distal...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to identify effects of push-up plus exercise on different support surfaces on upper extremity muscular activity. [Subjects] The subjects were 28 students (10 males, 18 females) at B University. [Methods] The subjects performed push-up plus exercises either on slings or on a fixed support. [Results] Push-up plus exercises on slings showed significant incre...

BACKGROUND Patients with hand and/or wrist pathology are recommended to have a four-wheeled walker with an arm rest (FWW-AR) rather than a standard walker or a standard four-wheeled walker (FWW). However, only a few quantitative studies have been performed to compare upper and lower extremity weight bearing. The aim of this study was to evaluate forearm and foot weight bearing using a FWW-AR an...

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between time-frequency, time and frequency measures when considering various upper extremity positions below the level of the shoulder and in trapezius as well as deltoideus muscles. During the experiment, 15 subjects performed a task that involved screwing and unscrewing a screw cap on a board in six different locations, i.e., there wer...

CONTEXT Overhead athletes commonly have poor posture. Commercial braces are used to improve posture and function, but few researchers have examined the effects of shoulder or scapular bracing on posture and scapular muscle activity. OBJECTIVE To examine whether a scapular stabilization brace acutely alters posture and scapular muscle activity in healthy overhead athletes with forward-head, ro...

It is very important for the proper position orientation and motion of shoulder that all muscles should function properly whereas scapular having key role in normal stability upper extremity Cervical spine. OBJECTIVE: The objective this research was to determine retractors strength female IT workers. MATERIAL & METHODS: This descriptive cross-sectional study conducted on females workers wor...