background: muscle fatigue is an important issue in neuromuscular rehabilitation. better control of this phenomenon would result in better prevention of its consequent physiological damages. objective: to provide a mathematical representation of muscle fatigue as a function of time. methods: we conducted this study by combining the emg-based estimation methods of muscle activation with the avai...

abstract aim and background: multiple sclerosis is a chronic neurological disorder which is more prevalent in women than men. therefore, the aim of present study was to evaluate the relationship physical functioning impairment (as criterion variable) with fatigue, psychological symptoms and body mass index (as predictive variables) in the women suffering from this disease. methods and materials...

improving anaerobic performance and anaerobic power is the critical aspect on successfully in competitions for many athletes. the purpose of current research was to investigating the effect of various pre-competitions warm-up on anaerobic performance. it has been shown that, differences pre-competitions activity may effect on anaerobic and explosive performance. effect of general warm-up, witho...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa background: circadian rhythm sleep disorders are a presentation of sleep disorders in patients with multiple sclerosis (ms). this study aims to compare this problem in ms patients with healthy people and to determine its association with chronic fatigue in ms patients. materials and methods: a case-control study was performed on 120 ms patients and ...

We investigated the effects of fatigue produced by timed maximal voluntary contraction (MVC) of the index finger of the right hand on performance in MVC and accurate cyclic force production tasks in right-handed young (Young group) and strength-matched elderly (Elderly group) participants. We hypothesized that, before fatigue, the Elderly group would show weaker force-stabilizing synergies and ...

Fatigue changed the composition of the small-molecular weight (sMW) proteome of saliva during a 10h session of moderate (70% of maximum ventilatory threshold) physical exertion. Saliva samples were collected from nine recreationally trained cyclists participating in a cross-over study designed to simulate prolonged manual labor, a military operation or wildfire-suppression work. During each hou...

background: along with the rapid growth of technology its related tools such as computer, monitors and video display terminals (vdts) grow as well. based on the studies, the most common complaint reported is of the vdt users. methods: this study attempts to design a proper tool to assess the visual fatigue of the vdt users. first draft of the questionnaire was prepared after a thorough study on...

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of mental fatigue on the duration of actual and imagined goal-directed arm movements involving speed-accuracy trade-off. Ten participants performed actual and imagined point-to-point arm movements as accurately and as fast as possible, before and after a 90-min sustained cognitive task inducing mental fatigue, and before and after viewing a n...

The study described in this article was designed to evaluate visual fatigue induced during video display terminal (VDT) tasks. Newly developed equipment was used that can simultaneously measure pupillary change, focal accommodation, and eye movement. The changes in these 3 physiological measures, taken during a VDT task, were used to propose an index for evaluating visual fatigue. Through multi...