BACKGROUND Measuring grip and pinch strength is an important part of hand injury evaluation. Currently, there are no standardized values of normal grip and pinch strength among the Korean population, and lack of such data prevents objective evaluation of post-surgical recovery in strength. This study was designed to establish the normal values of grip and pinch strength among the healthy Korean...

This study was designed to establish norms of hand function, and to identify developmental characteristics of hand function among the Korean children. 712 elementary school children participated in measurement of grip strength, three kinds of pinch strength, and dexterity. The hand strength of the Korean children appeared to be weaker than that of western children. The grip strength of boys was...

Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a neuropathy due to the compression of the median nerve. It is shown that gabapentin in high doses is effective in treatment of CTS patients. In this study we evaluated the efficacy of low doses of gabapentin in treatment of CTS patients. Ninety patients with CTS were randomly assigned to groups A, B and C. Gabapentin was administered to group A with dose of 100 ...

A novel experimental method is proposed for observing plasma dynamics subjected to magnetic fields based on a newly developed cylindrical theta-pinch device. By measuring simultaneously the temporal profiles of multiple parameters including drive current, luminosity, density, and temperature, it provides basis theta pinch, such as shock transport magnetohydrodynamic instability. We show that ev...

A linear pinch discharge above the Pease-Braginskii current and stabilized by axial shear flow can radiatively collapse to high densities. A thermonuclear detonation wave can then be launched from one end of the discharge channel by ignition with a powerful laser pulse. Axial shear flow stabilization may be realized by injecting a fast moving jet along the pinch discharge channel, possibly in c...

Integrin-linked kinase (ILK) is a ubiquitously expressed protein serine/threonine kinase that has been implicated in integrin-, growth factor- and Wnt-signaling pathways. In this study, we show that ILK is a constituent of cell-matrix focal adhesions. ILK was recruited to focal adhesions in all types of cells examined upon adhesion to a variety of extracellular matrix proteins. By contrast, ILK...

KATZ, R. J. AND K. ROTH. Tail pim'h induced stress-arousalfiwilitates brain stimulation reward. PHYSIOL. BEHAV. 22(1) 193-194, 1979.--Adult male Sprague Dawley rats with chronic access to self stimulation were sub~ctcd to handling, tail pinch, or left undisturbed. Tail pinch increased responding for positive reinforcement while the other conditions did not. The stress related properties of tail...

THIS paper is an analysis of an unusual outbreak of cholera in a confined community of 7,000 more or less disabled British and Dutch prisoners of war. By the middle of May, 1943, disquieting rumours reached us of outbreaks of cholera among railroad construction parties in Central Thailand. All these rumours agreed on two things: the outbreak was severe and facilities for treating the cases were...

We experimentally, numerically and theoretically investigate the nonlinear interaction between a cavitation bubble interface of two immiscible fluids (oil water) on multiple time scales. The underwater electric discharge method is utilized to generate near or at interface. Both dynamics short scale evolution much longer are recorded via high-speed photography. Two mechanisms found contribute fl...