Neck and head pain syndromes are common problems seen in clinical practice. Pain features of commonly designated idiopathic neck pain and some primary headaches (ie, tension-type headache or migraine) fit the descriptions of referred pain originating in muscle trigger points (TrPs). This article discusses the scientific evidence supporting the role of muscle TrPs in chronic musculo-skeletal dis...

BACKGROUND Migraineurs brain has shown some functional peculiarities that reflect not only in phonophobia, and photophobia, but also in mood and sleep. Dreaming is a universal mental state characterized by hallucinatory features in which imagery, emotion, motor skills, and memory are created de novo. We evaluated dream contents and associated emotions in migraineurs. MATERIALS AND METHODS 412...

Abstract Introduction Patients and physicians are increasingly utilizing online platforms to disseminate health information. With the explosive interest growth in testosterone therapy (TTh) amongst patients, providers business interests, information plays a significant role patients' healthcare decisions. Nearly all patients engage some form of tool, search engine or resource when learning abou...

We studied the properties of MSSM Higgs bosons, h and H through decay into b-quarks in associated production with a top-quark pair. There was used tree-level sector described by two parameters M$_A$ tan$\beta$ found their optimal values according to experimental data ATLAS detector. Using restricted parameter space we calculated cross sections $t\bar{t}h(H)$ at 13 14 TeV, corresponding kinemati...

The aim of this study is to examine the influence of depression on headache onset following laboratory stress and on psychophysiological variables associated with tension-type headaches (TTHs). Diagnostic interviews identified three groups: headache prone and depressed (HP/D, N = 13); headache prone not depressed (HP/ND, N = 22); and healthy controls (HC, N = 13). Ss completed a laboratory stre...

BACKGROUND In recent years, the use of the fuzzy c-means (FCM) clustering techniques in medical diagnosis has steadily increased, because of its effectiveness in recognizing systems in the medical database to help medical experts diagnosing diseases. However, its performance is highly dependent on the randomly initialized cluster centroids which may allow the diagnosis to be trapped into the pr...

who had previous experience in MTrPs identification and had completed training sessions to ensure treatment standardization. Detuned ultrasonography was used in the placebo group. The wait-list group received no treatments but was involved in all outcomes measured. Six participants withdrew from the trial. Headache diaries, maintained by all participants, showed that compared with baseline, a s...

We discuss associated production of a Higgs boson with a pair of tt quarks at a future high energy ee collider. The process ee → tth is particularly sensitive to the presence of new physics and we consider the MSSM and models with extra dimensions at the TeV scale as examples.

BACKGROUND Mannan is one of the primary polysaccharides in hemicellulose and is widely distributed in plants. β-Mannosidase is an important constituent of the mannan-degrading enzyme system and it plays an important role in many industrial applications, such as food, feed and pulp/paper industries as well as the production of second generation bio-fuel. Therefore, the mannose-tolerant β-mannosi...