[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to examine the activities of the abdominal muscles of women who had experienced vaginal delivery in comparison with those who had experienced Cesarean childbirth. [Subjects and Methods] A total of 14 subjects (7 vaginal delivery, 7 Cesarean section) performed an active straight leg raise to 20 cm above the ground, and we measured the activities of the int...

Presentations, research work, GPA, MCAT, extra curriculars, and volunteering. You could call it the “pre-med six-pack,” which, like a well-defined rectus abdominis, represent the “core” of an aspiring young physician. However, unlike one’s abdominal muscles, which experience fatigue after being put through a strenuous workout, these six core components are scheduled for a daily workout in the c...

ABSTRACT Introduction: Gymnastics requires high-level body coordination and control. The key to success for gymnasts is control adjust the center of gravity through abdominal core muscles. Abdominal resistance training mainly aimed at fulfilling this purpose. Objective: Analyze results on fitness gymnasts. Methods: 20 volunteer were selected by random sampling. experimental participants tested ...

We investigated ontogenetic changes in the trunk muscles of the Japanese black salamander (Hynobius nigrescens) before, during and after metamorphosis. Given that amphibians change their locomotive patterns with metamorphosis, we hypothesized that they may also change the structure of their trunk muscles. The trunk muscles were macroscopically observed, and the weight ratios of each trunk muscl...

The syndrome of congenital absence of the abdominal muscles associated with other abnormalities, chiefly of the genito-urinary tract, has received little attention in this country. Housden in 1934 reviewed 33 cases reported up to that time and added a further case of his own. Hill's (1947) case does not appear to have been a true example of this condition as there was a large defect of the ante...

During respiration, abdominal muscles experience loads, not only in the muscle-fiber direction but also transverse to the fibers. We wondered whether the abdominal muscles exhibit a fiber architecture that is similar to the diaphragm muscle, and, therefore, we chose two adjacent muscles: the internal oblique (IO), with about the same muscle length as the diaphragm, and the transverse abdominis ...

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between measurements of lumbar lordosis, pelvic tilt, and abdominal muscle performance during normal standing. In addition, the reliability of the measurements used in this study was examined. Measurements of lumbar lordosis, pelvic tilt, and abdominal muscle performance were taken of 31 healthy adults aged 20 to 33 years. Each measurem...

Crustacean hyperglycaemic hormone from the pericardial organ (PO-CHH) is a CHH-related neuropeptide but its function and target tissues are not known in crustaceans. To investigate this issue, we employed radiolabelled ligand binding and cGMP assays, using eyestalk-CHH (ES-CHH) as a reference neuropeptide. The membranes were prepared from various tissues of Callinectes sapidus: hepatopancreas, ...

This study aimed to identify what impact the thickness differences between the leftside and rightside transversus abdominis (TrA), internal obliquus (IO) and external obliquus (EO) have on balance ability in the abdominal drawing-in maneuver (ADIM) and resting postures. [Subjects and Methods] In this study, 41 young adults were asked to adopt a resting posture and to perform ADIM. The thickness...