Diabetes mellitus is an epidemic chronic condition in worldwide [1]. There is considerable growth in the number of who have diabetes [2]. One of the most common complications of diabetes is neuropathy that affecting 50% to 70% of cases [3,4]. The loss of sensation in the foot due to peripheral neuropathy may often lead to muscle imbalance, delays in muscle activation patterns, abnormal gait and...

BACKGROUND Osteoarthritis affecting the first metatarsophalangeal joint of the foot is a common condition which results in pain, stiffness and impaired ambulation. Footwear modifications and foot orthoses are widely used in clinical practice to treat this condition, but their effectiveness has not been rigorously evaluated. This article describes the design of a randomised trial comparing the e...

Diabetic peripheral neuropathy is a complication of Diabetes Mellitus and the most common noncommunicable disease. It involves decreases in sensations Lower extremity strength leading to reduce dynamic stability balance postural control. The purpose study review effects sensory stimulation interventions on Balance Postural control neuropathy. A systematic was conducted following centers for Gog...

BACKGROUND It is a routine practice to prescribe a combination of rocker shoes and custom-made foot orthoses for patients with plantar fasciitis. Recently, there has been a debate on this practice, and studies have shown that the individual prescription of rocker shoes or custom-made foot orthoses is effective in treating plantar fasciitis. The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the ...

BACKGROUND Gait analysis after total ankle replacement and ankle arthrodesis is usually measured barefoot. However, this does not reflect reality. The purpose of this study was to compare patients barefoot and with footwear. METHODS We compared 126 patients (total ankle replacement 28, ankle arthrodesis 57, and tibiotalocalcaneal arthrodesis 41) with 35 healthy controls in three conditions (b...

BACKGROUND Rocker is a novel interspinous process stabilization (IPS) that can be installed via unilateral approach by virtue of its unique design. This controlled study compared the clinical outcome of Rocker versus X-Stop to access the feasibility and validity of the novel IPS. METHODS From March 2011 to September 2012, 32 patients treated with Rocker and 30 patients treated with X-Stop wer...

s / Osteoarthritis and Cartilage 23 (2015) A82eA416 A385 639 THE EFFECTS OF SHOES ON KNEE PAIN AND MEDIAL JOINT LOADING IN PERSONS WITH KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW WITH META-ANALYSIS K.D. Gross yz, R. Ferreira de Sousa y, S. Lim y, M.P. LaValley z. yMGH Inst. of Hlth. Professions, Boston, MA, USA; zBoston Univ., Boston, MA, USA Purpose: Osteoarthritis (OA) is common in the medial k...

BACKGROUND People with chronic low back pain (CLBP) demonstrate greater postural instability compared with asymptomatic individuals. Rocker-sole shoes are inherently unstable and may serve as an effective balance training device. This study hypothesised that wearing rocker-sole shoes would result in long-term improvement in barefoot postural stability in people with CLBP. METHODS 20 participa...

Functional annotation of metagenomic and metatranscriptomic data sets relies on similarity searches based on e-value thresholds resulting in an unknown number of false positive and negative matches. To overcome these limitations, we introduce ROCker, aimed at identifying position-specific, most-discriminant thresholds in sliding windows along the sequence of a target protein, accounting for non...