Each year, the number of disabled people in Indonesia increases. About 2.4 million had some trouble walking 2014. It includes 650,000 individuals who have significant difficulty and ascending stairs. Lower limb prostheses are an option for those unable to walk due leg amputation. One most necessary parts below-knee prosthesis is socket. Almost local prosthetics socket did not give adequate info...

background: the metabolic syndrome (mes) is associated with a high risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. the aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome as well as cut-off points for waist circumference (wc) for diagnosis of mes in zahedan, southeast iran. methods: totally, 1802 people (735 men and 1067 women) with metabolic syndrome were surveyed a...

Introduction: Lower limb lymphedema (LLL) is one of the most disabling side effects surgical and radiotherapy treatment for gynecological cancers (carcinoma cervix, carcinoma ovary, endometrium, vulva). The incidence varies in patients undergoing surgery. This prospective study aims to determine lower after surgery malignancies.Methodology: A total 512 subjects who undergo malignancies departme...

in this prospective descriptive study, all patients with acute lower limb ischemia who presented to shohada tajrish hospital (sth) between july 200 1 and july 2003 were analyzed and followed for 6 months. the total population of 109 patients, with no significant difference in sexual distribution had a mean age of 64± 16 years. 23% had af and 31 % had a history of mi, 'but in the ecg of 30%...

Phantom motor execution (PME), facilitated by myoelectric pattern recognition (MPR) and virtual reality (VR), is positioned to be a viable option to treat phantom limb pain (PLP). A recent clinical trial using PME on upper-limb amputees with chronic intractable PLP yielded promising results. However, further work in the area of signal acquisition is needed if such technology is to be used on su...

determination of birth indices is essential for primary supportive care, evaluation of perinatal anomalies, determination amount of difference from standard values and for further follow up. in this study using a multicentre sampling, a number of 2832 healthy neonates selected. mean and percentile values of four main birth indices; weight, height, head and chest circumference are presented. in ...