objectives: the gals (gait, arms, legs and spine) examination is a compact version of standard procedures used by rheumatologists to determine musculoskeletal disorders in patients. computerization of such a clinical procedure is necessary to ensure an objective evaluation. this article presents the first steps in such an approach by outlining a procedure to use motion analysis techniques as a ...

We show that humans execute the postural control ingeniously by regulating the impedance properties of the musculo skeletal system as the motor command against the alteration of the environment. Adjusting muscle activity can control the impedance properties of the musculo -skeletal system. To quantify the changes in human arm viscoelasticity on the vertical plane during interaction with the env...

Physiotherapists with experience in sports injuries are an essential part of the marathon medical team as they are familiar with the injuries suffered by the long distance runners and are thus able to make a rapid assessment of the injury on the marathon day and treat accordingly. The long distance runner is liable to suffer from the whole gamut of injuries to the lower limb including muscle an...

DURING recent years it has become accepted that patients with hypothyroidism may present with a variety of rheumatic syndromes, sometimes well before the more obvious features of myxoedema have appeared, and these 'hypothyroid-rheumatic syndromes' will be described. This term is used in preference to 'myxoedematous arthropathy', because the patients in question are not frankly myxoedematous, my...