This paper aims to identify self-report data for hysterectomy prevalence and to explore its correlated factors among women with physical and mobility disabilities in Taiwan. This paper was part of a larger study, "Survey on Preventive Health Utilizations of People with Physical and Mobility Disability in Taiwan", which is a cross-sectional survey conducted in 2009. We recruited 502 women aged ≧...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Clinicians need valid and easily applicable predictors of outcome in patients with hip fracture. Adjusting for previously established predictors, we determined the predictive value of the New Mobility score (NMS) for in-hospital outcome in patients with hip fracture. PATIENTS AND METHODS We studied 280 patients with a median age of 81 (interquartile range 72-86) years w...

Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy is an ageing, degenerative spinal condition and a common cause of myelopathy in adults, with the average age presentation being 56 years. This case report was on 63-year man who apparently healthy until he presented grade v Nurick Classification System for Myelopathy. Lhermitte Sign present. The clinical presentations were motor deficit upper limbs (ULs), lower (...

Background: Abnormal head and neck postures play a significant role in developing cervical spine dysfunction. Forward posture (FHP) is one of the most common findings individuals who experience disorders. Objectives: This study used photographic method to analyze head, upper neck, lower forward both static quasi-static states. Since timely diagnosis appropriate treatment are important preventin...

Cervical orthoses are used to immobilize the cervical spine (Schneider et al., 2007) while treating a range of neck impairments from muscle spasm to serious instability (Johnson et al., 1977; Johnson et al., 1981), such as after cervical spine surgery (Schneider et al., 2007) and spinal cord injury (Johnson et al., 1981; Stambolis et al., 2003). There are many different cervical orthoses availa...

Spatial mobility is a topical concept of analytical migration science, which makes it possible to assess the desires, readiness and capabilities of the population to move over certain distances and time. In the management of spatial mobility assessment requires the organization of systematic monitoring, which includes identifying the mobility potential in spatial and temporal interpretation, th...

2-In order to determine how posteroanterior movements (PAs) are related to tenderness and thus possibly symptom production, we measured PA movements to a force of 25 N on each side of the cervical spines of asymptomatic subjects. From ten subjects (six females and four males; mean age 37.2, range 21 to 50), ten locations with a difference in tenderness to pressure between sides were used for an...