The use of Winderen Knee Protection Solution stirrups compared to standard iron stirrups, reveals the following benefits: 1) A reduction stress or strain time in order 14 seconds per minute activity whilst walking and 5 - 7 less trotting cantering for muscles around knee. 2) 25 9 10 ligaments 3) significant improvement E-score (less exposed shock) ST-score (lower force knee) walking. 4) conside...

This study was designed to evaluate the effects of whole body vibration (WBV) exercise, mental training (MT), and the concurrent effect of WBV and MT on lower body balance, neuromuscular performance, and leg muscle strength in elderly men. In a randomized control trial study with parallel group design, 42 older men (mean±standard deviation age, 68±5.78 years) were randomly divided into four gro...

Increased stride-to-stride variability during walking characterizes gait instability and predicts falling in older adults. Walking while performing cognitive tasks (dual task walking) is also associated with increased risk of falling. The purpose of the study was to examine whether gait velocity and stride-to-stride variability in gait velocity differ in older adults compared with middle-aged a...

The surface electromyographic patterns of eight muscles and the foot-contact patterns exhibited by 25 normal persons between the ages of 20 and 40, were measured and studied. These persons were walking indoors on a level surface without shoes at several different self-selected walking speeds. The electromyographic patterns demonstrated a considerable amount of interindividual variability at eac...

Positive and negative polarity fast ionization wave discharges in nitrogen and dry air are studied in a rectangular geometry channel over a wide range of time delays between the discharge pulses, s = 10 ms to 25 ls (pulse repetition rates of m = 100 Hz– 40 kHz). The discharge is generated by alternating polarity high-voltage pulses (peak voltage 18–23 kV, pulse duration 50–60 ns). Ionization wa...

On the basis of differences in physiology, e.g., histochemical properties and spindle density, and the structural design of the cat soleus (SO) and medial gastrocnemius (MG) muscles, we hypothesized that 1) fascicle length changes during overground walking would be both muscle and slope dependent, which would have implications for the muscles' force output as well as sensory function, and that ...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to examine the impact of intravenous methylprednisolone therapy (IVMP) on the recovery of walking ability in patients experiencing multiple sclerosis (MS) relapses, to compare the responsiveness of walking-based measures, and to estimate the impact of different walking-based measures responsiveness on clinical trials. MATERIAL/METHODS The study included 49...

This study examined patterns of neologistic and perseverative errors during word repetition in fluent Jargon aphasia. The principal hypotheses accounting for Jargon production indicate that poor activation of a target stimulus leads to weakly activated target phoneme segments, which are outcompeted at the phonological encoding level. Voxel-lesion symptom mapping studies of word repetition error...

Deliberate self-harm (DSH) is the most important factor associated with risk of suicide. It also poses a considerable burden on health and social services. Repetition of DSH after hospital presentation is common, with most studies reporting between 12 and 25% of patients repeating within a year and again presenting to hospital (Owens et al. 2002) and many more being involved in repeat episodes ...

It has been shown that the probability of face repetitions influences the magnitude of repetition-related response reductions (Summerfield et al., 2008), implying that perceptual expectations affect adaptation and repetition suppression processes in the human central nervous system. An unresolved question is whether probability effects are specific for the retinal position of the stimuli or aff...