Recently, the practice of skateboarding is becoming increasingly popular among the younger generation, so as to count the number of practitioners worldwide of about 18.5 million in 2002, of which 12.4 million people in the United States of America [1]. In Italy, despite the small size of the phenomenon, there is a number of practitioners who were able to achieve significant results at the inter...

This study examined the relationship between perceived (stated) levels of function and the measured (observed) performance in squatting and stair climbing activities of 20 patients with chronic low back pain (CLBP) and 20 healthy volunteers. Subjects were asked through an interview to self-assess their ability to comfortably perform stair climbing and squatting as well as other tolerances. The ...

Anomalies of the skeleton provide information on living conditions, cultural structure and health problems in ancient societies. Squatting facet is a kind of anomaly that forms on the surfaces where the tibia and talus articulate is the squatting facet states the daily activities and living style of the society. The aim of this study is to learn the daily activities of the medieval societies in...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to study the correlation of knee range of motion between walking and squatting for young and elderly populations. [Subjects] Sixteen young and eight elderly healthy subjects were recruited for this study. [Methods] Three-dimensional joint motions of each subject were captured while they performed walking and squatting exercises. [Results] Significant diff...

Methods: 20 young, healthy subjects participated in 3 trials. In the first trial, subjects spent 10 minutes exercising on a stair climbing machine while in the second session, they were required to maintain an unsupported squat position for a continuous 2 minute period. In a control condition, subjects watched television in a seated position for 10 minutes. Before and immediately after each tri...

OBJECTIVES To compare three positions for defecation by measuring abdominal pressure and the anorectal angle simultaneously. METHODS We recruited six healthy volunteers. The videomanometric measures included simultaneous fluoroscopic images, abdominal pressures, subtracted rectal pressures and anal sphincter pressures. Three positions were used: sitting, sitting with the hip flexing at 60 ° w...

Objectives Non-ischaemic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is characterised by a highly variable disease progression. Stress echocardiography and cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) are beneficial in risk assessment, but are labour intensive. Repetitive squatting and standing without weights is a simple exercise (EX). The aim of this study was to investigate the prognostic role of left ventricul...

AIMS The heart rate (HR) responses after performance of the squatting and standing manoeuvre are thought to be a useful tool to assess autonomic neuropathy in diabetics. Our aim was to develop new simple squatting test indices and to analyse their applicability to the assessment of baroreflex sensitivity (BRS) in patients with diabetes. METHODS Twenty healthy volunteers (mean age 23.2 +/- 3.8...

Of 114 cases of gastrointestinal diverticulosis, 60(52.6%) had small bowel, 48 (42.1%) large bowel, 5 (4.3 %) gastric and 1 (0.8 %) oesophageal diverticula. Thirteen. percent cases in duodenal and 14% in colonic group were below the age of 30 years. Males predominated (3 : l)in cases with colonic diverticulosis. Diverticulosis was more frequent in the upper (46.4%) and middle (40.3%) as compare...