fecal incontinence is a challenging condition in that it exerts various psychosocial impacts on daily life. different treatment modalities have been suggested for fecal incontinence. the present study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of biofeedback therapy in combination with surgery in the management of fecal incontinence. the present randomized controlled trial was performed on 27 women with a ...

background: dyssynergic defecation is a major cause of chronic functional constipation as a common digestive complaint. we clinically evaluated the effects of biofeedback therapy on the pelvic floor motion indices through magnetic resonance (mr) defecography, quality of life and depression in patients with dyssynergic defecation.   methods : in this clinical trial study, among patients referrin...

This study was performed to extract the meaningful parameters from EMG signals, which could be used as biofeedback parameters for the rehabilitation treatment. Five males and five females subjects were participated for the experiment, and the EMGs with and without electrical stimulation were acquired for analysis. Zero-crossings, turns/second, and median frequency were extracted and analyzed to...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the mean integral EMG level of the masseter muscle, which was obtained from the EMG biofeedback of the frontal muscle of those patients whom once had a case of mandibular dysfunction, and to use this as an effective means of treatment. Furthermore, the correlation between the psychological characteristics of mandibular dysfunction patients and EMG bi...

Cerebral Palsy (CP) often requires long-term physical therapy for neuromuscular re-education. This paper presents an electomyographic (EMG) feedback protocol that was developed during treatment of six patients, aged 6 to 35 years. Five were functional walkers, and one (age 6) used crutches. The goal was to improve the strength, relaxation, and coordinated control of the muscles of the trunk, pe...

The aim of this study was to determine the effects of alpha neurofeedback and EMG biofeedback protocols for improvement of musical performance in violinists. The sample consisted of 12 music students (10 violinists and 2 viola players) from the Faculty of Music, Skopje (3 males, mean age of 20 +/- 0 and 9 females, mean age = 20.89 +/- 2.98). Six of them had a low alpha peak frequency (APF) (< 1...

Skating is a fundamental movement in ice hockey; however little research has been conducted within the field of hockey skating biomechanics due to the difficulties of on-ice data collection. In this study a novel on-ice measurement approach was tested for reliability, and subsequently implemented to investigate the forward skating technique, as well as technique differences across skill levels....

PURPOSE To evaluate the reliability of the GeNouRoB knee arthrometer and present normative values of knee anterior laxity using this device on young females. METHODS Anterior laxity in both knees was tested in two groups of young, uninjured females using the hamstrings electromyography biofeedback feature of the device. There were 13 participants in the group tested for reliability and 23 for...

This study uses EMG biofeedback to explore muscular and reflex modulation of shoulder stiffness during postural maintenance experiments. The primary objective is to evaluate the influence of perturbation type (force vs. position) on these properties. Results employing EMG biofeedback indicated no influence of perturbation type and confirmed the expected influence of muscle activation on reflex ...