Lower-limb amputees often exhibit large fluctuation in residual-limb shape, necessitating careful observation and anthropometric measurement for prosthetists to ensure socket fit. Anthropometric measurement may become more important as an outcome measure indicating success in rehabilitation. This study investigated the accuracy and reliability of seven prosthetic anthropometric measurement devi...

Abstract Background and Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the mediating role of executive functions in the relationship between fine motor skills and reading skills in students with reading disorders. Method: This research was descriptive-correlation and structural equation modeling. The research population of the study included all students with reading disorders who referred t...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND This study explored the prevalence and severity of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in college students who lived in earthquake center one year after the Wenchuan earthquake on May 12, 2008, the factors affecting the prevalence of PTSD was also investigated. METHODS 2987 students studying at the senior normal school in Tibetan autonomous region which was one of t...

INTRODUCTION The need for medical students to be computer literate is vital. With the rapid integration of information technology (IT) in the health care field, equipping students of medical universities withcomputer competencies to effectively use are needed. The purpose of this study was to assess computer literacy (CL) needs of medical sciences students. METHODS This is descriptive-analyti...

When I first developed an Addiction course for the Honors College at UMass-Boston in 2006, it focused exclusively on the acute and long-term effects of psychoactive substances on the brain. However, I soon realized that a strictly biological perspective failed to capture how this complex disorder affected the whole person. Students had no insight into addicts' thoughts, feelings, behaviors or h...

His PhD thesis studied the effects of low level laser therapy in ankle sprains. He teaches Clinical Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Medicine to students from the university and at international courses and universities, and is visiting scholar at the school of Physiotherapy, University of Sydney and the Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich. His research focuses on diseases of the musculosk...

The task of hygiene, apart from sanitation of the conditions of the external medium, is to work out measures of active influence on the organism helping to increase work capacity and speed up rehabilitation processes after work. In this connection, we have conducted observations over the effect of artificially ionised air of a negative charge sign on the physical work capacity of healthy people...