Objective: Musculoskeletal system problems emerged in students who had to attend classes with a computer or smartphone during the weekly course hours, due fact that universities providing face-to-face education switched online method of distance Covid-19 pandemic. Purpose study; To determine severity pain experienced by students, reveal its relationship disability, and find factors induce disab...

BACKGROUND Chronic pain and disability of the arm, shoulder, and hand severely affect labor market participation. Ergonomic training and education is the default strategy to reduce physical exposure and thereby prevent aggravation of pain. An alternative strategy could be to increase physical capacity of the worker by physical conditioning. OBJECTIVES To investigate the effect of 2 contrastin...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Patient-reported outcome measures have been found useful in many disciplines but have received limited evaluation after stroke. The current study investigated the relationship that patient-reported measures have with standard impairment and disability scales after stroke. METHODS Patients with motor deficits after stroke were scored on standard assessments including the...

BACKGROUND Recovery of upper limb function after stroke is poor. The acute to subacute phase after stroke is the optimal time window to promote the recovery of upper limb function. The dose and content of training provided conventionally during this phase is however, unlikely to be adequate to drive functional recovery, especially in the presence of severe motor disability. The current study co...

BACKGROUND Previous studies identified limited impairment and disability several years after diaphyseal fractures of both the radius and ulna, although the relationship between impairment and disability was inconsistent. This investigation studied skeletally mature and immature patients more than ten years after injury and addressed the hypotheses that (1) objective measurements of impairment c...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of musculoskeletal pain in the shoulder, arm and hand is high among slaughterhouse workers, allegedly due to the highly repetitive and forceful exposure of these body regions during work. Work disability is a common consequence of these pains. Lowering the physical exposure through ergonomics intervention is the traditional strategy to reduce the workload. An alternati...

background: multiple sclerosis (ms) is a demyelinating disease which can cause many disabilities for the patient. recent data suggests that ms patients have higher risk for osteoporosis. this study was performed to investigate if the osteoporosis prevalence is higher in ms patients and to determine the possible factors affecting bone mineral density (bmd). methods: 51 definite relapsing-remitti...