Background & objectives: Osteoarthritis as a result of the destruction of articular cartilage, leads to joint pain and stiffness. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of endurance and ozone therapy on the expression levels of FLS and VEGF genes in the knee tissue of rats with knee osteoarthritis. Methods: Subjects were male Wistar rats that were randomly divided into 5 groups...

This semi-experimental study with control group and pre test-post test was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of Olson's marriage enrichment group training on marital satisfaction of women whose husbands don't participate in the program. To this purpose using a non- randomly sampling method (accessible sampling) 40 volunteers from women who referred to one of Tehran's municipal health c...

Background and Objective: In menopause period, estrogen production decreases and this leads to increases of blood lipoproteins and LP(a) and at last to increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Because physical activity is important in prevention of cardiovascular diseases, this study intended to investigate the effect of eight-week walking program on serum lipids and LP(a) and estrogen hormone...

Objectives: Today, participation in physical activities is proposed to improve symptoms of chronic diseases such as osteoarthritis. In this research, we aimed to evaluate the effect of aquatic exercise therapy on the quality of life in women with knee osteoarthritis (KO). Methods & Materials: Our study used counterbalanced measures design. By random sampling method, 30 females...

Background: Coronary artery disease is one of the most common causes of death in the world. With the increase in the incidence of these diseases, surgical and non-surgical interventions followed by cardiovascular rehabilitation programs have become more important. The process of angiogenesis and improvement of blood flow is considered as one of the therapeutic goals in these patients, and vascu...

Background: High blood pressure is a threat to the health of individuals, especially women. In order to overcome this threat, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of eight weeks of resistance training on blood pressure and Nitric oxide and Apelin levels in women with pre-hypertension. Methods: For this purpose, 24 women with pre-hypertension aged from 30 to 45 years old were...

target tracking is the tracking of an object in an image sequence. target tracking in image sequence consists of two different parts: 1- moving target detection 2- tracking of moving target. in some of the tracking algorithms these two parts are combined as a single algorithm. the main goal in this thesis is to provide a new framework for effective tracking of different kinds of moving target...