Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a chronic and disabling, anxiety disorder resulting from exposure to life threatening events such as a serious accident, abuse or combat (DSM IV definition). Among veterans with PTSD, a common complaint is dizziness, disorientation and/or postural imbalance in environments such as grocery stores and shopping malls. The etiology of these symptoms in PTSD i...

Purpose: The role of visual stimuli as the primary stimulus and effect auditory before external perturbation on Anticipatory Postural Adjustments (APAs) releases has been investigated, but which type (auditory or visual) a more significant initial APAs release, needs to be investigated. So, this study aimed investigate visual-auditory contributions presentation release at different time interva...

We report on the clinical status of 5 patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) 3 years after autologous adrenal medullary (AM)-to-caudate nucleus (CN) implantation, and of 2 PD patients, 2 years after fetal ventral mesencephalon (VM)- and fetal adrenal (A)-to-CN homotransplantation. Current clinical evaluation of 4 of the AM grafted patients revealed sustained bilateral amelioration of their PD s...

Abnormal lateral curvature of the spine may affect postural balance pattern in static and dynamic condition. Previous studies demonstrated asymmetrical balance patterns of adolescent patients with idiopathic scoliosis during sitting and walking. However, pressure distribution data have been rarely used to analyze asymmetrical postural pattern of scoliotic patients. In this study, pressure data ...

Abstract Background When dizziness/vertigo patients presented with balance disorder, it will bring severe morbidity. There is currently lack of research to explore risk factor related disorder in dizziness patients, especially those who walk independently. Aim To investigate factors Methods Medical data 1002 registered vertigo/balance registration database were reviewed. The demographic data, m...

Background: Muscles and fascia are the major source of pain in rheumatic diseases. Dry needling under ultrasound guidance (DN-US) is a crucial therapeutic approach to treat muscle [1,2], definition `myo-fascial` calls for searching trigger points (TrPs) improve treatment effectiveness. Objectives: Aim was evaluate relevance fascial DN-US myo-fascial pain. Methods: We included 36 patients (21 fe...

abstract- the effects of iron (fe) and zinc (zn) treatments on the growth and nutrient composition of chickpea were studied in a greenhouse experiment arranged in a completely randomized design. while the application of fe decreased mean shoot dry weight of chickpea, that of zn had no significant effect on chickpea shoot dry weight. increasing fe levels drastically decreased mn concentration an...

in human beings, the balance control is a result of an integration of physical and psychological factors and people show different reactions when feel anxious or face stability threatened conditions such as standing on an unstable surface. university students, particularly the female ones, are a group of the society who are prone to face anxieties. the current study focused on the effects of an...

objectives: the goal of the present study was to compare the role of vision on static postural stability between athletes and nonathletes. methods: participants included two groups of 25 persons, men karatekas who were selected in isfahan (age 20.6±2.8 years, 66.24±10.34 kg of weight, height 1.76±0.07 m) and healthy young men in isfahan (age 21.6±2.33 years, 66.8±11.34 kg of weight, height 1.74...

BACKGROUND Nicotine is heavily used addictive drug that has unpleasant side- effects, e.g. dizziness, nausea, emphysema. PURPOSE The current study was designed to find the possible relationship of nicotine mediated microcystic oedema in white matter of cerebellum to postural imbalance. METHODS Nicotine was administered for 8 weeks orally via cannula, using dose rate (5 mg/day, 10 mg/day) to...