INTRODUCTION Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), a rare and severe chronic pain condition, often responds poorly to existing treatments. Previous studies demonstrated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) provided short-term pain relief for upper extremity CRPS. METHODS Building on previous methodologies, we employed a TMS protocol that may lead to significant pain relief for upper and l...

abstract introduction: hypertension is one of the most prevalent chronic diseases worldwide. because of its chronicity, hypertension requires life-long therapy. many patients tend to discontinue therapy and seek alternative treatments. in this study, we evaluated the efficacy of two behavioral therapeutic techniques, namely relaxation and biofeedback-assisted relaxation in reducing blood pressu...

In unimanual reaction times (RT) to lateralized flashes, contralateral responses tend to be slower than ipsilateral responses. This has been called Crossed-Uncrossed Difference (CUD). The CUD tends to show variability across subjects and across studies, but until now the stability of the CUD in an individual subject has not been investigated. To address the role of inter- and intra-subject vari...

Incentive spirometry is one of the most common methods used for respiratory rehabilitation in early period after cardiac surgery. Inspiratory capacity values, obtained by a patient using spirometer, are not reliably trusted. Objectives. To compare volumetric parameters measured with incentive spirometer and results bedside ultrasound-based to assure feasibility use assess inspiratory e?ectivene...

In order to assess longitudinal effects in fingerprint biometrics several studies have been carried out the last decade. Almost all of these investigations focused on non-public forensic datasets because there is hardly any publicly available database allowing experiments and a corresponding analysis aspects often infeasible as contained samples are either captured one session only or with shor...

the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of acute resistance exercise with different movement orders on fatigue parameters (serotonin and rpe test) in non-athlete men (normal weight and obese). 26 male university students were purposively selected and assigned to obese (n-11) and normal weight groups (n=15). in the first session, half of the subjects (both obese and normal) randomly ...

Methods Physically active male and female volunteers (n = 13) completed 24 × 50 yard sprints following NEC and DC (counterbalanced). Sprints were completed in 2 halves (12 sprints per half) with 2 minutes recovery between each sprint and a 10-minute recovery period between halves. Acute-RPE (A-RPE) (0–10 omni scale) was recorded after every sprint and Session RPE (S-RPE) was recorded 20 min aft...