Many medical inpatients have alcohol related problems but evidence of the feasibility of instituting a brief intervention is incomplete. An alcohol counsellor trained nurses on five general medical wards to screen patients routinely for alcohol problems. She counselled appropriate patients using one or two counselling sessions. Efficacy of the counselling was assessed at interview six months fo...

The aim of the present study was to find out efficacy of frontalis EMG Biofeedback therapy, deep muscular relaxation therapy and compare the efficacy of both in cases of tension headache. During two week basal-data recording period all patients were taught deep muscular relaxation by Jacobson's technique. Simultaneously patients were instructed to keep headache diary. Headache diary yielded thr...

Recently, studies have reported that extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) is a safe, noninvasive, alternative treatment for spasticity. However, the effect of ESWT on spasticity cannot be determined, because most studies to date have enrolled small patient numbers and have lacked placebo-controlled groups and/or long-term follow-up. In addition, whether varying the number of ESWT sessions w...

the aim of this study was to examine the effect of a rhythmic motor program on the perceptual – motor abilities (pma) and the intelligence quotient (iq) of educable mentally retarded (emr) children. the sample consisted of 24 emr girls (mean age = 11.98+1.43 years and iq = 70.58+ 9.95). then, they were matched and assigned to two groups of intervention and control according to their iq and pma ...

KEY POINTS The prevalence of cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) non-response gradually declines in healthy individuals exercising 60, 120, 180, 240 or 300 min per week for 6 weeks. Following a successive identical 6-week training period but comprising 120 min of additional exercise per week, CRF non-response is universally abolished. The magnitude of CRF improvement is primarily attributed to chan...

BACKGROUND Several clinical studies on chronic stroke conducted with end-effector-based robots showed improvement of the motor function in the affected arm. Compared to end-effector-based robots, exoskeleton robots provide improved guidance of the human limb and are better suited to train task-oriented movements with a large range of motions. OBJECTIVE To test whether intensive arm training w...

ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect Pessoa training aid (PTA) exercise program exerts in some physical conditioning predictors. Eight detrained adult horses were evaluated 12 sessions work with PTA (3 per week). All used a heart rate monitor and GPS (V800, Polar Electro) data calculate energy expenditure (EE), net cost transport (COT), metabolic requirement (Pmet), oxygen ...

Methods During an evaluation in December 2011, one month after spinal fusion (T10-Pelvic), the patient’s clinical sagittal profile demonstrated a significant forward trunk inclination of 5 cm. Angle of Trunk Rotation (ATR) was 5° in the thoracic and 4° in the lumbar. Quality-of-life score was 3.3 (SRS 22 questionnaire). Body image was 3 (Trunk Appearance Perception Scale (TAPS)). Pain score was...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether people with moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) can adhere to a minimally supervised, community-based, vigorous aerobic exercise program. DESIGN Prospective trial. SETTING Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) facilities. PARTICIPANTS Community-dwelling volunteers (N=10; 8 men, 2 women; age range, 22-49y) 6 to 15 months after moderate-to-sever...