background: knee osteoarthritis (oa) is the most common musculoskeletal disease among old individuals which affects ability for sitting on the chair, standing, walking and climbing stairs. our objective was to investigate the short and long-term effects of the most simple and the least expensive exercise protocols in combination to conventional conservative therapy for knee oa.   methods : it w...

Difficulty in transferring, the ability to rise in and out of a bed and chair, is a common problem in older adults, particularly those residing in skilled nursing facilities. Focusing on one aspect of transferring, rising from supine to sitting position, we devised a set of bed mobility tasks to test key arm, leg, and trunk movements that likely contribute to successful rising from bed. Healthy...

OBJECTIVE To present results of a registry of a novel vascular access device. BACKGROUND Arterial access has been largely unchanged for 60 years. The Arstasis device creates a novel shallow-angle arterial access designed to facilitate hemostasis without use of a vascular closure device (VCD) or implantation of a foreign body for closure. This is the first publication to report the outcomes of...

PURPOSE: This study aimed to develop prediction equations for estimating the physical fitness age (PFA) of Korean adults in young (19-40 years), middle (41-64 and old (65-80 years) groups.METHODS: Data from 122,842 individuals who participated Korea National Physical Fitness Survey 100 2009 2014 were collected. Body composition, muscular strength, endurance, flexibility, cardiorespiratory agili...

AIMS We investigated whether sprint interval training (SIT) was a time-efficient exercise strategy to improve insulin sensitivity and other indices of cardiometabolic health to the same extent as traditional moderate-intensity continuous training (MICT). SIT involved 1 minute of intense exercise within a 10-minute time commitment, whereas MICT involved 50 minutes of continuous exercise per sess...

BACKGROUND Double-blind, placebo-controlled (DBPC) trials are the gold standard for demonstrating clinical efficacy and tolerability. The placebo effect, although an important feature in placebo-controlled studies, has never been systematically investigated in allergen-specific immunotherapy (SIT) studies. This study was performed to examine the placebo response in SIT trials that employed a ba...

Although 19 published studies report that allergen-specific immunotherapy (SIT) may decrease health care costs, a scant 4 pertain to the health economics of SIT in the United States (US). This editorial presents an overview of these published US studies and an appeal for additional US health economics research regarding SIT. We specifically focus on subcutaneously administered SIT (SCIT), the p...

OBJECTIVE To determine the role of symmetrical body-weight distribution training in preventing falls among patients with hemiplegic stroke. DESIGN A prospective study using a standing biofeedback trainer. SETTING Hospital-based rehabilitation units. PATIENTS Fifty-four patients with hemiplegic stroke (30 in the training group, 24 in the control group). INTERVENTIONS Conventional stroke ...

BACKGROUND Specific immunotherapy (SIT) is the only treatment that interferes with the basic pathophysiological mechanisms of allergic disease and is widely used in the management of clinically significant respiratory IgE-mediated diseases. Nevertheless, until recently, information on the influence of SIT on the development of new allergic sensitisations has been scant. METHODS One hundred co...

Evaluation of balance control ability would become important in the rehabilitation training. In this paper, in order to make clear usefulness and limitation of a traditional simple inverted pendulum model in balance prediction in sit-to-stand movements, the traditional simple model was compared to an inertia (rotational radius) variable inverted pendulum model including multiple-joint influence...