background and objectives: musculoskeletal disorders are common among children. burden imposed on neck, shoulder and back areas by carrying schoolbags may result in musculoskeletal disorders in students. the aim of this study is to determine the frequency of musculoskeletal symptoms and factors associated with these symptoms in students of tehran.   methods: three hundred and forty students par...

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to compare effect two taping techniques and manual therapy, applied in addition conventional physiotherapy program, on pain function patient with subacromial impingement syndrome.Methods: A total 55 patients participated this study. Patients were divided into four groups; Kinesio group, McConnell therapy control group. Conventional (5 days a week for weeks)...

Orthotic therapy is frequently advocated for the treatment of musculoskeletal pain and injury of the lower limb. The clinical efficacy, mechanical effects, and underlying mechanism of the action of foot orthotics has not been conclusively determined making it difficult for practitioners to agree on a reliable and valid clinical approach to their application and indeed even their fabrication. Th...

Limb movements are often rhythmic in nature, exhibiting sinusoidal-like oscillations. Nevertheless, the 'back and forth' trajectories are seldom perfectly harmonic and symmetric but often show discrepancies between the two half cycles, for example in terms of differences in peak velocity, fluency, and local reductions of spatial variability. A central tenet of the notion of anchoring, as advanc...