DESIGN This is a cross-sectional study. SETTING University research laboratory. PARTICIPANTS Fifteen healthy adults (mean age: 27.47 years) volunteered for this study. INTERVENTION The individuals performed standard bridge exercise and modified bridge exercises with right leg-lift (single-leg-lift bridge exercise, single-leg-lift bridge exercise on an unstable surface, and single-leg-lift...

Computed tomography scans of 96 women aged between 40 and 63 years were systematically measured to determine torso muscle moment arms and cross-sectional areas at L 2L 3, L 3L 4 and L 4L 5 disc levels. The major findings were as follows: (1) the mean muscle moment arm and area data were not different bilaterally; (2) psoas, quadratus lumborum, and latissimus dorsi muscle moment arms consistentl...

BACKGROUND If a chronically infected abdominal wound develops, complications such as peritonitis and an abdominal wall defect could occur. This could prolong the patient's hospital stay and increase the possibility of re-operation or another infection as well. For this reason, a solution for infection control is necessary. In this study, surgery using a rectus abdominis muscle myofascial splitt...

The muscle fiber composition and cross-sectional area of muscle fiber types were investigated histochemically in the abdominal muscles (rectus abdominis muscle, obliquus externus abdominis muscle, obliquus internus abdominis muscle and transversus abdominis muscle) of three Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata). Muscle fibers were classified into three fiber types (Type I, II A and II B) by myosin...

Rectus Sternalis is a rare fl at slip of muscle present parasternally in the thoracic wall. During the regular dissection of pectoral region, three slips of Sternalis muscle were observed bilaterally in an adult male cadaver. On the right side there was a single slip (RS1) while on the left side two slips (RS2 and RS3) were present. All three slips were present anterior to the Pectoralis Major ...

Malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH) is a common soft tissue sarcoma usually involving limbs and retroperitoneum. MFH of the rectus abdominis muscle is extremely rare. Surgery in similar cases leads to large abdominal wall defects needing reconstruction. Biological and synthetic laminar absorbable prostheses are available for the repair of hernia defects in the abdominal wall. They share the im...

ALL modern authorities are agreed that gumma of muscle is now a relatively rare manifestation of syphilis. The condition is adequately described by Harrison and Lees who state that the triceps, biceps, sterno-mastoid, tongue, rectus abdominis and the calf muscles are most commonly involved. The gummata may retrogress and undergo calcification, or even ossification, or may break through the skin...

STUDY DESIGN Controlled laboratory study using a repeated-measures, counterbalanced design. OBJECTIVES To test the ability of 8 Swiss ball exercises (roll-out, pike, knee-up, skier, hip extension right, hip extension left, decline push-up, and sitting march right) and 2 traditional abdominal exercises (crunch and bent-knee sit-up) on activating core (lumbopelvic hip complex) musculature. BA...