Poor standing posture has been reported in women with larger breasts, increasing the risk of back pain. Whilst breast reduction surgery can improve posture, conservative measures such as special bras may offer short or long-term relief symptoms without surgical intervention. This study aimed to utilise a multi-study intervention investigate and kinematic effects wearing bra. Study one utilised ...

Horizontal body position is a posture typically adopted for sleeping or during brain imaging recording in both neuroscience experiments and diagnostic situations. Recent literature showed how this position and similar ones with head down are associated to reduced plasticity, impaired pain and emotional responses. The present study aimed at further understanding the decrease of cortical activity...

There is increasing recognition that low-intensity physical activities of daily life play an important role in achieving energy balance and that their societal erosion through substitution with sedentary (mostly sitting) behaviors, whether occupational or for leisure, impact importantly on the obesity epidemic. This has generated considerable interest for better monitoring, characterizing, and ...

Prolonged asymmetrical sitting is common and can exacerbate musculoskeletal back pain spinal deformities. Monitoring posture help maintain correct prevent health problems. Currently assessed by expert clinicians using subjective visual observation. More objective methods involve the use of a gold-standard motion capture system in Laboratories, which expensive not widely available. We develop Sm...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Poor sitting posture has been implicated in the development and perpetuation of neck pain symptoms. This study had 2 purposes: (1) to compare change in cervical and thoracic posture during a distracting task between subjects with chronic neck pain and control subjects and (2) to compare the effects of 2 different neck exercise regimens on the ability of people with neck p...

We studied the effects on 18 serum constituents of posture and prolonged tourniquet application. The subjects were 11 healthy men, ages 20-25 years. The assays were performed on the AutoChemist Multi-Channel Analyzer (AutoChem Instrument AB, Liding#{244}, Sweden). To compensate for the within-hour variation in these constituents, we drew blood samples at 1100 h and 1130 h on several days. The 1...

INTRODUCTION Lung Clearance Index (LCI) is recognised as an early marker of cystic fibrosis (CF) lung disease. The effect of posture on LCI however is important when considering longitudinal measurements from infancy and when comparing LCI to imaging studies. METHODS 35 children with CF and 28 healthy controls (HC) were assessed. Multiple breath washout (MBW) was performed both sitting and su...

BACKGROUND Scoliosis is a frequent association in boys with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy when the ability to walk is lost around nine to 12 years of age. This study assessed the contribution of physical factors including lumbar posture to scoliosis in non-ambulatory youth with DMD in Nepal. METHODS Linear regression was used to assess effects of time since loss of ambulation, muscle strength, ...