OBJECTIVE To investigate the factors affecting rehabilitation outcomes in children with congenital muscular torticollis (CMT). METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 347 patients who were clinically suspected as having CMT and performed neck ultrasonography to measure sternocleidomastoid (SCM) muscle thickness. Fifty-four patients met the inclusion criteria. Included were ...

BACKGROUND Femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) is increasingly recognized as a potential cause of hip osteoarthritis. A system capable of pre-operatively simulating hip range of motion (ROM) by given surface models from either healthy or FAI diseased bone is desirable. METHODS An impingement detection system using bounding sphere hierarchies was first developed. Both precision and accuracy of ...

STUDY DESIGN Observational longitudinal study. OBJECTIVE To establish the normal variation over time for active and passive cervical range of motion (ROM) measured with the Flock of Birds electromagnetic tracking system (FOB). SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Data about normal variation of cervical ROM over time are scarce but important for the interpretation of study results. METHODS Forty-eig...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to investigate the repeatability of spinal range of motion (ROM) and movement velocity measurements of patients with chronic low back pain, using a two-dimensional motion analysis system. This apparatus uses reflective markers placed on anatomical landmarks and video digitization to derive ROM measurements from three segments of the spine and...

Twenty-nine elderly patients with preexisting shoulder problems voluntarily enrolled as subjects in this study, which was undertaken to determine the efficacy of osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) in an elderly population to increase functional independence, increase range of motion (ROM) of the shoulder, and decrease pain associated with common shoulder problems. Each subject had chronic...

UNLABELLED [Purpose] Clinicians have reported the effects of various instrument assisted soft tissue mobilization (IASTM) in patients. The purpose of this study was to investigated the effects of the Graston technique and general exercise on pain and range of motion (ROM) in patients with CLBP. [Subjects and Methods] 30 patients with CLBP participated in the study (Graston technique: 15; CONT...

Weakened Random Oracle Models (WROMs) are variants of the Random Oracle Model (ROM) under some weakened collision resistance assumptions. Cryptographic schemes proven secure in WROMs can ensure security even when the underlying random oracles are susceptible to certain extent of collision attacks, second pre-image attacks, or first pre-image attacks. In this paper, we show that a WROM variant c...

Recent enhancements to the development of CFD-based unsteady aerodynamic and aeroelastic reduced-order models (ROMs) are presented. These enhancements include the simultaneous application of structural modes as CFD input, static aeroelastic analysis using a ROM, and matched-point solutions using a ROM. The simultaneous application of structural modes as CFD input enables the computation of the ...