Balistocardiography is a method by which body vibrations caused by heart activity are registered. Evolution during the past fifty years to the present is described. Balistocardiography (BCG) represented by instruments of different natural frequencies and damping should bring information about cardiac output. This expectation was not fulfilled due to the unsuitable physical properties of apparat...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to determine the degree to which pressure on the plantar aspect of the forefoot is reduced following percutaneous lengthening of the Achilles tendon in diabetic patients who are at high risk for ulceration of the foot. METHODS Ten diabetic patients who had a history of neuropathic plantar ulceration of the forefoot were enrolled in a laboratory gait tr...

OBJECTIVES To determine the effects of intraarticular step-off and lateral meniscectomy on the alignment of the articular axis, contact area, and pressures for lateral tibial plateau fractures. DESIGN Biomechanical cadaver study. INTERVENTION Six fresh cadaveric knees were used. A simulated split fracture of the lateral tibial plateau was reproducibly created by osteotomies, and articular s...

BACKGROUND The role of cervical muscle (neck) strength in traumatic brain and spine injury and chronic neck pain disorders is an area of active research. Characterization of the normal ranges of neck strength in healthy young adults is essential to designing future investigations of how strength may act as a modifier for risk and progression in head and neck disorders. OBJECTIVE To develop a ...

OBJECTIVES This study determined biomechanical force parameters and reliability among clinicians performing knee joint mobilizations. METHODS Sixteen subjects with knee osteoarthritis and six therapists participated in the study. Forces were recorded using a capacitive-based pressure mat for three techniques at two grades of mobilization, each with two trials of 15 seconds. Dosage (force-time...

BACKGROUND Cricoid pressure is considered to be the gold standard means of preventing aspiration of gastric content during Rapid Sequence Intubation (RSI). Its effectiveness has only been demonstrated in cadaveric studies and case reports. No randomised controlled trials comparing the incidence of gastric aspiration following emergent RSI, with or without cricoid pressure, have been performed. ...

1. Abstract The aim of this work is to introduce an adaptive strategy to monitor the rate of convergence of a Newtonlike method in shape optimization. Numerical solution of this problem involves numerical representation of the domain, optimization algorithms and numerical solution of the state equation, a partial differential equation. Newtons like algorithms are often computationally intensive...