INTRODUCTION Previous work from our group has identified extensive ligamento-muscular reflex pathways between the cervical facet joint capsule (FJC) and the superficial and deep cervical paraspinal musculature, both ipsilateral and contralateral to the stretched FJC, which were activated by physiologic low-rate (0.5 mm/s) [1] and high-rate (100 mm/s) [2] FJC stretch. Since approximately 22% of ...

BACKGROUND Despite experimental evidence, most epidemiologic studies to date have not supported an association between exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POP) and breast cancer incidence in humans. This may be attributable to difficulties in estimating blood/tissue POP concentration at critical time periods of carcinogenesis. OBJECTIVES In this work we aimed to develop a tool to estim...

abstract background: stroke is a stressful event with several functional, physical, psychological, social, and economic problems that affect individuals’ different living balances. with coping strategies, patients try to control these problems and return to their natural life. the aim of this study is to investigate the effect of a care plan based on roy adaptation model biological dimension on...

BACKGROUND Hemorrhage persists as the leading cause of potentially preventable civilian and military death. Noncompressible torso hemorrhage (NCTH) is a particularly lethal injury complex, with few contemporary prehospital interventions available. Various porcine models of hemorrhage have been developed for civilian and military trauma research. However, the predominant contemporary models lack...

The Heart Disease Program (HDP)[1,2] has been under development for about 15 years. The HDP is an expert system to help physicians with the diagnosis of heart disease. It takes a patient description from the physician, including history, symptoms, physical examination, and pertinent laboratory results – essentially the same data that the physician uses to determine a diagnosis. The program uses...

the effect of massage therapy on the physiologic index of the patiants hospitalized at different intensive care units of shahid beheshti university of medical sciences       zolriasatain f [1] *, bahraini s [2] , hariri gh [3] , khoda karim s [4]     received: 4 dec , 2012 accepted: 18 feb , 2013       abstract:   background & aims : massage therapy is one of the appropriate methods of reducing...