Article history: Received: 14.7.2015. Received in revised form: 17.10.2015. Accepted: 19.10.2015. The fatigue performance of steel truss integral joint is analyzed based on multi-scale FEM. Numerical results are verified with experimental ones. The fatigue performance of steel truss integral joint is analyzed using a sea-crossing suspension bridge as its background. The 1:2 scale model fatigue ...

BACKGROUND Fatigue is common in patients with JIA and affects daily life negatively. We assessed the presence and severity of fatigue in patients with JIA, including factors presumed associated with fatigue (e.g., disease activity, disability, pain, physical activity, exercise capacity, and self-efficacy), and whether fatigue is related to participation in physical education classes, school att...

OBJECTIVE In Korea, human placental extract (HPE) has recently been used to treat various diseases (chronic liver diseases, menopause syndrome, chronic fatigue, skin pigment diseases, etc.), but evidence-based studies are not yet sufficient. The aim of this study was to examine the effects of HPE on menopausal symptoms, fatigue, and risk factors for cardiovascular disease in middle-aged Korean ...

the relationship between fatigue and mental health in chemical warfare victims with bronchiolitis obliterans     abbasi s [1] , mehdizadeh s [2] *, moqaddam m [3]     received: 8 mar, 2013 accepted: 10 may, 2013    abstract  background & aims : fatigue is one of the most debilitating symptoms in patients with respiratory disorders. in addition, among the chronic disease, lung disease have the h...

The etiology of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is unknown and no conventional medicine therapies are available. This report presents a clinical case of a patient suffering from CFS who was cured by traditional Korean medicine. A 33-year-old female patient had to take time off work because of terrible fatigue symptoms that did not respond to conventional treatments. Her disorder was significantl...

UNLABELLED The Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS) is one of the most frequently used self-rating scales for fatigue in Parkinson's disease (PD) and it lacks a validated Brazilian-Portuguese version. OBJECTIVE To determine the construct validity and reproducibility of a Brazilian-Portuguese version of the FSS in patients with PD. METHODS In a cross-sectional study, a Portuguese-language version of...

OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of post-polio-related fatigue on quality of life. DESIGN Cross-sectional case control study. SUBJECTS Patients without additional health problems that may induce fatigue were selected from among 82 polio survivors. Twenty-six patients with post-polio syndrome and 10 without post-polio syndrome were included. Control group consisted of 30 healthy volunteers. ...