AIM The present cohort study describes the longitudinal relationship between plasma oxidative status and periodontitis progression during the maintenance phase of treatment. MATERIALS AND METHODS Forty-five patients (mean age 58.8 years) were monitored from 2008 to 2013. Periodontal conditions, including probing pocket depth (PPD) and clinical attachment level (CAL), were recorded. Measuremen...

Context: Stretching exercise regimens are routinely prescribed to increase range of motion (ROM) and diminish injuries. Objective: To examine the effect of a 3-minute passive stretch on ankle-dorsiflexion ROM in a nonpathological population. Setting: University laboratory. Design: Prospective, randomized, controlled study. Participants: 24 apparently healthy volunteers. Interventions: Subjects ...

Background/aim: The self-administered neck mobility assessment tool (S-ROM-Neck) is the subjective cervical region range of motion (S-ROM) scale. study aimed to demonstrate reliability and validity Turkish version S-ROM-Neck in patients with chronic pain. Materials methods: A cross-sectional was conducted a total 60 pain Physical Therapy Rehabilitation Clinic Pamukkale University Hospital betwe...

Scientific information has been growing at an exponential level, and each year over 300.000 references are added to Medline base. There is now a growing interest on the bioinformatics researches to find ways to improve the ability to find relevant documents in the literature and to extract specific kinds of information from these documents (1,2). Medline, one of the gamestones of medical scient...

BACKGROUND A thorough understanding of the biomechanical characteristics of the healthy human spine is critical in furthering the treatment of spinal pathology. The goal of this study was to investigate the motion of the intact lumbar spine segment as measured by range of motion (ROM), and to investigate the dependencies thereof on gender and intervertebral level. MATERIALS AND METHODS Kinema...

STUDY DESIGN A prospective comparative study. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to establish cervical spine morphometry, alignment, and range of motion (ROM) and to clarify the impact of these age-related and degenerative changes. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA There are no studies that have evaluated differences in the results of cervical spine radiographs between a large series of cervical spondylot...

Liskov proposed several weakened versions of the random oracle model, called weakened random oracle models (WROMs), to capture the vulnerability of ideal compression functions, which are expected to have the standard security of hash functions, i.e., collision resistance, second-preimage resistance, and one-wayness properties. The WROMs offer additional oracles to break such properties of the r...

BACKGROUND Football players with groin injury refrain from maximal kicking. Previous groin injury is related to decreased hip range of motion (ROM). Information on ROM differences between maximal and submaximal kicking within players is lacking. The first aim of this study is to quantify ROM of body segments during the maximal (MaxK) and submaximal (SubK) instep kick at four key points. The sec...

Objective To determine the extent to which changes in knee range of motion (ROM) after a stretching program are related to sensory factors at the time of testing and the amount of force used during the measurement of ROM, rather than changes in soft-tissue properties. Design Randomized, single-blind design. Participants were randomly assigned to a control or stretching group. Setting Resear...

The purpose of this study was to measure range of motion (ROM) in patients with cervical ossification of posterior longitudinal ligament (C-OPLL) by multidetector-row computed tomography (MDCT), and to investigate the influence of dynamic factors. The study included 101 patients with C-OPLL and 99 normal control patients. Preoperative MDCT were taken in all subjects in maximum neck flexion and ...