Objective To determine the effectiveness of lessons in the Alexander technique,massage therapy, and advice froma doctor to take exercise (exercise prescription) along with nurse delivered behavioural counselling for patients with chronic or recurrent back pain. Design Factorial randomised trial. Setting 64 general practices in England. Participants 579 patients with chronic or recurrent low bac...

Introduction: The incidence of low-back pain during pregnancy is very common. Deep tissue massage is an effective therapy relieving subacute and chronic low back pain. Purpose: To evaluate if a deep tissue massage is beneficial for low back pain and functional capacity of pregnant women. Methods: A woman, aged 28, with low back pain went under deep tissue massage tretmant which consisted of spe...

An adaptive sub-sampling technique is proposed for the conversion of high-resolution video to lowresolution video, which will eventually be converted back to high resolution. This technique can preserve high spatial frequency information by exploiting the temporal correlation of stationary regions without any extra storage or transmission bandwidth. Coding complexity can be reduced by a factor ...

Hair transplantation surgery is indicated for the patients with male-pattern baldness that is unresponsive to medical treatments. This procedure can be performed in two different approaches. The first one is the strip harvesting technique; a strip of scalp is removed under local anesthesia and then cut into single follicular units, which are then transplanted back into the balding area in order...

statement of problem: a recent technique (mbt) has been introduced for easy and efficient orthodontic treatment by means of straight wire fixed appliances. although this technique has many advantages, in space closure stage causes up righting problem in upper incisors, which should be adjusted by applying additional torque in anterior region. purpose: the purpose of this clinical trial was to d...

rapid prototyping (rp) is a technique of manufacturing parts by the additive layer manufacturing technology; where, a three-dimensional (3d) model created in a computer aided design (cad) system is sectioned into 2d profiles, which are further constructed by rp layer by layer. its use is not limited to industrial or engineering fields and has extended to the medical field for the manufacturing ...

Image compression technique is used to reduce the number of its required in representing image, which helps to reduce the storage space and transmission cost. In the present research work back propagation neural network training algorithm has been used. Back propagation neural network algorithm helps to increase the performance of the system and to decrease the convergence time for the training...

In this paper proposed a new healthcare image watermarking scheme based on human visual model and back-propagation network technique. The human visual model which is characterized by properties like luminance, frequency, and texture sensitivities was utilized to generate the suitable strength of an embedded watermark. In addition, the back-propagation network technique was employed to obtain th...

Image compression technique is used to reduce the number of bits required in representing image, which helps to reduce the storage space and transmission cost. In the present research work back propagation neural network training algorithm has been used. Back propagation neural network algorithm helps to increase the performance of the system and to decrease the convergence time for the trainin...