Background: Stabilization exercises can improve the performance of trunk and back muscles, which are effective in the prevention and treatment of low back pain. The four-point kneeling exercise is one of the most common types of stabilization exercises. This quasi-experimental study aimed to evaluate and compare the level of activation between abdominal and lumbar muscles in the different stage...

hydatidosis is a parasitic disease in all over the world which is caused by a cestode (tape worm). liver, lung, and brain are the most common involved organs and involvement of muscles and bones is unusual. we report a 32years old man who had low back and radicular leg pain. he had a paravertebral mass with involvement of spinal column. this patient was operated with differential diagnosis of t...

The study of myology is relevant for both functional understanding and distinguishing different species. The pine marten (Martes martes) is a small carnivore found in Europe and Western Asia and belongs to the Mustelidae family. For the purpose of this study, fresh a carcass which was found in the hunters' trap, was brought to the anatomy hall of veterinary faculty, for anatomical studies. Afte...

introduction: after low back pain, the neck pain is the most prevalent pain among (especially elderly) peoples. the purpose of this study was to determine the effect of one period of exercise program on subjects neck rom and chronic neck pain. materials and methods:  for executing this study 60 elderly patient (24 males and 36 females) with mean age 56± 4.5 years old and 71± 4.4 kg with chronic...

background: the purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of endurance training on amount of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nachr) in fast and slow twitch muscles of male wistar rats. methods: a number of 15 male wistar rats randomly divided into two groups of control (n=7) and endurance training (n=8). the endurance training treadmill running (for 12 consecutive week, 5 da...

We used stimulus-triggered averaging (StTA) of electromyographic (EMG) activity to investigate two major questions concerning the functional organization of the magnocellular red nucleus (RNm) for reaching movements in the macaque monkey. The first is whether the clear preference toward facilitation of extensor muscles we have reported in previous studies for distal (wrist and digit) forelimb m...

Understanding the function of vastus lateralis (VL) and medialis (VM) muscles is important since these are essential for daily sport activities. The association between knee flexion angle spatial muscle activation controversial. This study compares distribution patterns multi-channel electromyographic activities VL VM at three angles intensities isometric contraction. Sixteen men performed exte...