Background: Muscle Energy Technique (MET) has been advocated for the treatment of restricted range of motion in the upper neck. There is little evidence, however, to support the effectiveness of MET to increase motion in the cervical spine, or determine the optimal duration of isometric contraction during the technique. Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of various ...

This paper extends previous research in that sense that for orthogonal projections of rigid smooth (true-3D) curves moving totally free it reduces the number of required traceable points to two only (the best results known so far to the author are 3 points from free motion and 2 for motion restricted to rotation around a fixed direction and and 2 for motion restricted to influence of a homogene...

Optimal control simulations of the standing long jump were developed to gain insight into the mechanisms of enhanced performance due to arm motion. The activations that maximize standing long jump distance of a joint torque actuated model were determined for jumps with free and restricted arm movement. The simulated jump distance was 40 cm greater when arm movement was free (2.00 m) than when i...

We report the guest-anion-induced photoluminescence enhancement of metal–organic frameworks (UiO-66-NH2), first based upon diffraction and computational evidence. found that only limited anions, namely, carbonate fluoride, can lead to a significant in photoluminescence, whereas their related such as acetate chloride, cannot. The optimized crystal structures reveal guest fluoride ions interact w...

BACKGROUND Joint angle data from healthy subjects are necessary as baseline information. OBJECTIVE To analyze the problems of patients who struggle with activities of daily living (ADL) due to restricted range of motion and to provide ADL guidance based on objective data. METHOD An electromagnetic three-dimensional tracking system (FASTRAK) was used to quantify the hip, knee, and ankle angl...

The dorsoventral body axis in amphibian embryos is established by a rotation of the outer cortex relative to the inner cytoplasmic core. This cortical rotation depends on microtubules and is correlated with a parallel array of microtubules just inside the vegetal cortex. Since the parallel array moves with the inner cytoplasm and most of its microtubules are oriented with their plus ends facing...

In rotating magnetospheres planted on compact objects, there usually exist lightcylinders (LC), beyond which the rotation speed of magnetic field lines exceeds light. The LC is a close analog to horizon in gravity, and casual boundary for charged particles that are restricted move along lines. this work, it proposed should be Hawking-like radiation from magnetosphere point view tunneling by usi...

Prevalence studies suggest that shoulder pain is very common (7-20%) in the adult population, though little is known about the severity and impact of such pain. Disability results, in part, from the restriction of movement and we therefore determined the frequency of restricted shoulder movement in individuals in a general population sample reporting shoulder pain and associated disability. In ...