[Purpose] The aim of this study was to determine the effects of Thai massage on physical fitness in soccer players. [Subjects and Methods] Thirty-four soccer players were randomly assigned to receive either rest (the control group) or three 30-minute sessions of Thai massage over a period of 10 days. Seven physical fitness tests consisting of sit and reach, hand grip strength, 40 yards technica...

In this study, pangas and feed samples were analyzed to estimate the levels of metallic elements profile human health risks due consumption contaminated fish. This investigation confirmed significant variations in heavy metal concentrations among different tissues order Ni > Cu Pb Cd Cr pre-monsoon = post-monsoon. Considerably higher Pb, Cu, estimated liver; detected muscle than other organs (p...

BACKGROUND The Shoulder Pain and Disability Index (SPADI) is a good clinical tool to evaluate patients with shoulder pain, but has not been adapted to Thai version. The objectives of this study were to translate the English version and culturally adapt the SPADI to Thai version and to evaluate the internal consistency and construct validity of the Thai SPADI among Thai participants having shoul...

background: traditional thai tobacco (nicotiana abacus l.) is known as a non-virginia type whose mature leaf contains three to four times more nicotine than that of a virginia type. as such, the process of thai traditional tobacco production may lead to adverse health effects such as green tobacco sickness (gts). objective: to investigate the prevalence of gts and risk factors related to gts am...

We propose a multi-phase approach, Thai-Thai Sign Machine Translation (TTSMT), to translate Thai text into Thai Sign language. Thai Sign language is the language of the deaf in Thailand. TTSMT begins the translation process by segmenting the input sentence since Thai is a non-word boundary language, converting the segmented sentence into simple sentence forms since most Thai Sign are expressed ...

OBJECTIVES To develop and test the reliability of a Thai version of the King's Health Questionnaire (KHQ). MATERIAL AND METHOD Three Thai Urologists forward translated the original English KHQ into a Thai version. Back translations were performed by an independent group of physicians. A consensus was reached on a final Thai version after comparing the original KHQ and various translations. Fi...