BACKGROUND Bracing could be efficacious, given good compliance and quality of braces. Recently the SOSORT Brace TREATMENT Management Guidelines (SBTMG) have highlighted the perceived importance of the professional teams surrounding braced patients. PURPOSE To verify the impact of a complete rehabilitation team in the adolescent patient with bracing. MATERIALS AND METHODS Design. Initial cro...

SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis can progress and affect the health related quality of life of the patients. Research shows that screening is effective in early detection, which allows for bracing and reduced surgical rates, and may save costs, but is still controversial from a health economic perspective. STUDY DESIGN Model based cost minimisation analysis using hos...

This is the second of a pair of papers which describe an investigation into the feasibility of providing artificial balance to paraplegics using electrical stimulation of the paralyzed muscles. By bracing the body above the shanks, only stimulation of the plantar flexors is necessary. This arrangement prevents any influence from the intact neuromuscular system above the spinal cord lesion. In t...

Reliability evaluation of a large-scale composite power system faces to numerous events/outage and consequently imposes an extensive burden of calculations. In order to simplify the problem, determination of an equivalent system for large-scale power system is inevitable. This paper proposes a framework as reduction technique to separate a composite power system to three areas: external area, o...

Abstract Background Current clinical guidelines recommend conservative management including non-pharmacologic therapy prior to considering surgery for knee OA. There is a paucity of trials investigating the use biomechanical device therapies on those with patellofemoral joint osteoarthritis (PFJOA). The aim was systematically review effectiveness devices (bracing, taping, and footwear) in sympt...

In buildings with triangular plan, the center of mass and rigidity cannot geometrically match all possible directions of the earthquake. This will result in torsional moments in the stories causing the building to rotate around the center of rigidity. In this paper, via response spectrum analysis (RSA) and nonlinear static analysis, the seismic behavior of 5-, 10- and 15-story steel structures ...