Supplemental oxygen improves exercise tolerance of normoxemic and hypoxemic chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients. We determined whether nonhypoxemic COPD patients undergoing exercise training while breathing supplemental oxygen achieve higher intensity and therefore improve exercise capacity more than patients breathing air. A double-blinded trial was performed involving 29 non...

Children with Down's syndrome have developmental delays, particularly regarding cognitive and motor development. Fine motor skill problems are related to motor development. They have impact on occupational performances in school-age children with Down's syndrome because they relate to participation in school activities, such as grasping, writing, and carrying out self-care duties. This study ai...

based on rome iii criteria, functional disorders of gi are listed below:   infant regurgitation: -regurgitation two or more times per day for 3 or more weeks -no retching, hematemesis, aspiration, apnea, ftt, abnormal posturing infant rumination syndrome: -repetitive contraction of abdominal muscle -regurgitation of gastric content in to the mouth and reswallowed cyclic vomiting syndrome: -two ...

purpose the aim of this study was to examine the influence of selected exercises on motor development in elementary school third grade girl students in ahwaz city, iran. methods the present study was semi–experimental, performed as field and using experimental and control groups. the statistical population included all third grade girl students of elementary schools of ahvaz city (10,500 subjec...

regarding the increasing prevalence of cardiovascular disease (cvd) especially myocardial infarction (mi), and the insufficiency of information in the field of physical rehabilitation, this study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of a course of physical rehabilitation on the psychological status and physical characteristics f cardiac patients. in this study, the effect of 8 weeks exercise ...

The aim of this study was to investigate the time window, duration and intensity of optimal speech and language therapy applied to aphasic patients with subacute stroke in our hospital. The study consisted of 33 patients being hospitalized for stroke rehabilitation in our hospital with first stroke but without previous history of speech and language therapy. Sixteen sessions of impairment-based...

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects vocabulary intervention based on morphological awareness ability elementary school students with reading disabilities. Methods: A multiple baseline probe design across participants used verify intervention. subjects were three disabilities (two 3rd graders and one 4th grader). Vocabulary tests at word level sentence/paragraph ...