Background: Anal fissures and hemorrhoids are common anal conditions. They cause significant morbidity, social embarrassment, work absenteeism. In addition, they form a workload on the healthcare system. Nevertheless, etiology of these conditions is still contentious. It has been observed that associated with prolonged sitting. This study aims to investigate this observation.Methods: case–contr...

Introduction: Anterior Knee Pain (AKP) is one of the most common causes persistent problems after knee replacement. Total Arthroplasty (TKA) a surgical procedure in which an artificial joint or prosthesis replaces damaged knee. A significant proportion patients experience AKP surgery. The pain described as retro patellar peripatellar pain. Patients have trouble standing from sitting position, w...

OBJECTIVE Develop and test a self-administered questionnaire that measures perceived and actual functional limitations in rising and sitting down. SETTING Private practices for physical therapy and outpatient clinics of hospitals and rehabilitation centers. PATIENTS 345 outpatients (43% male, aged 14 to 92 years) with different grades of functional limitations and different types of lower e...

This paper presents a system, which is able to recognize 15 different continuous human activities in real-time using a single stationary camera as input. The system can recognize activities such as raising or waving hand(s), sitting down and bending down. The recognition is based on describing activities as a continuous sequence of discrete postures, which are derived from afine invariant descr...

Estimation of the hip joint contact area and pressure distribution during activities of daily living is important in predicting joint degeneration mechanism, prosthetic implant wear, providing biomechanical rationales for preoperative planning and postoperative rehabilitation. These biomechanical data were estimated utilizing a generic hip model, the Discrete Element Analysis technique, and the...

UNLABELLED Nasal obstruction when lying down frequently brings patients to the otolaryngologic clinic. There are several explanations for the problem. The nasal mucosa reaction to venous changes that alter local blood flow, secondary to compression of the neck veins or hydrostatic pressures, is the most accepted explanation. Acoustic rhinometry is a new non-invasive technique to assess nasal pa...

Incident analysis is an important activity to maintain the safety of nuclear power plants. Much discussion is required to utilize the collected incidents effectively in the incident analysis activity. On-line Computer Mediated Communication(CMC) activity is an appropriate circumstance for geographically dispersed workers in nuclear power plants to discuss about the incident analysis. Some studi...