background: severe upper extremity injuries can affect the quality of life in patients and cause multi-factorial and long-term costs of disease. the aim of this study was to assess quality of life in patients with upper extremity injuries caused by work-related accidents. methods: in this study cross-sectional method was used in patients referred to the occupational medicine clinic of rasoul ak...

background: cardiac rehabilitation is known as a powerful non-pharmacological approach for improving functional capacity, and left ventricular systolic function; however, some limited data have suggested an attenuation of the decline in diastolic function with this program. this study investigated the effect of high intensity aerobic exercise following coronary artery bypass surgery (cabg) on d...

objectives: language development is often very slower in hearing impaired children compared with their normal peers. hearing impairment during childhood affects all aspects of speech production and language acquisition. it seems that hearing impaired people suffer from language and speech impairments such as production of complex linguistic structures. the purpose of this study is to determine ...

the situation of people with disabilities in the developing countries should be a matter of great concern. there are today close to 250 million severely and moderately disabled persons in these countries; the annual increase is 10 million. most of them are poor, dependent neglected, excluded from education, training and jobs; they die early and have no power while alive. between 15 and 20% of a...

objectives: specific language impaired children, despite being normal in cognitive and neurological characteristics, and also normal levels of hearing, experience multiple problems in syntax comprehension. this study compared the passive comprehension as one of syntactic structures in persian-speaking typically developing children and specific language impaired children. methods: 10 children wi...

purpose : to determine the prevalence of visual impairment, blindness, and low vision among the elderly population of sari in northern iran methods : random cluster sampling of 1,185 selected individuals over 54 years of age, of whom 79.1% participated. participants underwent eye examinations to test presenting visual acuity (va), best corrected visual acuity (bcva), and refraction. results : b...

introduction: sensory impairment is a major complication following multiple sclerosis (ms). the role of foot sensation in balance and quality of life has been previously documented in elders and people with diabetes and neurological conditions (i.e. stroke) however less attention has yet been paid to people with ms. this study was to define the prevalence of foot sensory impairments in people w...

purpose: this study was conducted to assess cognitive impairments, depression, anxiety and quality of life among patients with brain tumor and healthy adults, comparatively. methods: a cross-sectional study was administrated on 84 brain tumor patients and 84 healthy adults measured by the mini mental state examination, beck, hamilton and sf36 questionnaires before and after 10 days of surgery. ...

purpose: to estimate the magnitude and causes of visual impairment (vi) in subjects aged ≥ 50 years in varamin district in 2009 using the proposed method by the world health organization (who). method: this cross sectional population based survey was performed in varamin targeting people over the age of 50 years using the proportional probabilities to size and cluster compact segment sampling m...