Passive stretching is widely used for individuals with spasticity in a belief that tightness or contracture of soft tissues can be corrected and lengthened. Evidence for the efficacy of passive stretching on individuals with spasticity is limited. The aim of this review was to evaluate the evidence on the effectiveness of passive stretching in children with spastic cerebral palsy. Seven studies...

Since the publication of the first edition of this book, there has only been one clinical study that evaluated whether stretching affects the risk of injury. In the cohort study by Amako et al , the intervention was stretching both pre and post exercise. Although not statistically significant, the results suggested a decrease in muscle/tendon injuries with the stretching program, but an increas...

The infrared spectra of substituted chalcones and some of their ferrocene analogues were measured in the region of fundamental and first overtone C = 0 stretching bands. The formation of hydrogen bonds between the substituted chalcones and phenol was examined in the O—H stretching region. The frequencies of fundamental and first overtone C = 0 stretching bands for s-cis and s-trans conformers a...

This article addresses the boundary layer flow and heat transfer of Casson fluid over a nonlinearly permeable stretching surface with chemical reaction in the presence of variable magnetic field. The effect of thermal radiation is considered to control the rate of heat transfer at the surface. Using similarity transformations, the governing partial differential equations of this problem are red...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to find "Effect of lower extremity stretching exercises on balance in the geriatric population. METHOD 60 subjects (30 male and 30 female) participated in the study. The subjects underwent 10 weeks of lower limb stretching exercise program. Pre and post 10 weeks stretching exercise program, the subjects were assessed for balance, using si...

In this study, an analysis has been performed for heat and mass transfer of a steady laminar boundary-layer flow of a viscous flow past a nonlinearly stretching sheet. Parameters n, Ec, k0, Sc represent the dominance of the nonlinearly effect, viscous effect, radiation effect and mass transfer effect which have presented in governing equations, respectively. The similarity transformation and th...

abstract background: restless leg syndrome prevalence is high among the patients undergoing hemodialysis. due to several side effects of medicational treatments, the patients prefer non-medicational methods. therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the effects of two methods of reflexology and stretching exercises on the severity of restless leg syndrome among patients undergoing hemod...

This paper deals with the effect of the intrinsic material length-scale parameter on the stability and natural frequency of a rectangular micro-plate for two different cases; fully clamped and fully simply supported. A variational formulation based on Hamilton’s principle and the modified couple stress theory is used to obtain the nonlinear governing equation of a micro-plate incorporating the ...