background hands burn was associated with significant functional disorders that severely affected patient’s quality of life. the aim of this study was to examine the effect of educational program based on exercise therapy on burned hand function. methods this experimental research was conducted in a period of ten months in 2010-2011 in mottahari hospital in tehran in iran. the sample included 6...

objectives: the purpose of this study was to examine the effect of core stabilization abstract training program on falling in elderly population. methods & materials: for this clinical trial study, forty elderly female subject (age: 70.58±5.98 years, weight: 55.76±5.78 kg, height: 157.76±7.8 cm) voluntarily participated. a week prior to starting training program the balance measured with the be...

introduction: urinary incontinence (ui) is a common problem among adults living in the community and it is more frequent in women. its incidence increases with age, the number of pregnancy and body mass index (bmi). conservative management is recommended as the first-line treatment. physical therapies, particularly pelvic floor muscle exercise, are the mainstay of such conservative management. ...

conclusions: exercise has significant effect on improving symptoms of multiple sclerosis, and cessation of exercise may cause recurrence of symptoms in the intervention group with a slope similar to that of the control group. therefore, continuous rather than short period exercises have valuable symptomatic and supportive relief effects in patients. results: the results indicated significant ch...

background: exercise is a widely prescribed treatment for chronic low back pain. the purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of 8 weeks exercise on pain, disability and endurance of trunk flexor-extensor muscles in female with chronic idiopathic low back pain. methods: this clinical trial study has been done on 12 patients who referred to the arak city clinics. the function o...

introduction: the important sequelae of facial nerve palsy are synkinesis, asymmetry, hypertension and contracture; all of which have psychosocial effects on patients. synkinesis due to mal regeneration causes involuntary movements during a voluntary movement. previous studies have advocated treatment using physiotherapy modalities alone or with exercise therapy, but no consensus exists on the ...

objective(s): the goal of this study was assessing the prophylactic effect of exercise and its role as an adjuvant therapy on level of cytokines involved in angiogenesis in estrogen-dependent breast cancer. materials and methods: forty female balb/c mice were randomly assigned to exercise-tumor-exercise (ete), exercise-tumor-rest (etr), rest-tumor-exercise (rte) and rest-tumor-rest (rtr) groups...

Parkinson disease (PD) is a degenerative neurological disorder that affects 0.5- 1% of old people in western countries. It primarily affects mobility function, and associated with increasing disability over time. People with PD express bradykinesia, rigidity, tremor, progressive postural instability and muscle weakness as symptoms of PD. Various exercise programs, including resistance or aerobi...

introduction: obesity and visceral fat accumulation after menopause are associated with insulin resistance and cardiovascular diseases. we investigated the interactive effect of aerobic-resistance training and estrogen replacement therapy on visceral fat, omentin-1 and homa-ir in ovariectomized rats. materials and methods: fifty female wistar rats were ovariectomized (ovx) and divided into 5 gr...