BACKGROUND The prevalence of chronic constipation is about 15 % in Western countries with a significant impact on quality of life and health care costs. The first-line therapy, based on medical treatment combined with laxatives and dietary rules, is often disappointing. Interferential therapy is a new treatment that has demonstrated its efficiency in the treatment of chronic constipation in chi...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of interferential stimulation on pain and motion after shoulder surgery. Study Design: Randomized Controlled Trial. Methods: 102 patients undergoing arthroscopic rotator cuff repair or labral repair were prospectively randomized to receive either an interferential stimulation unit immediately after surgery (STIM) or not to receive t...

The external field influence on the birefringence of the liquid crystalline layer is expressed by using the Cauchy dispersion equation. The basically theoretical elements of the polarization interferential filters of Lyot Ohmann and Wood type, achieved in a multilayer geometry, are given in this paper. The expressions corresponding to the transmitted maxima and to the spectral bandwidths of the...

Background: Adhesive capsulitis is a clinical diagnosis made from history of the gradual onset severe shoulderpain with progressive limitation active and passive glenohumeral movements. The most significant loss ofmovement in external rotation joint. Traditionally physical therapists have used an anterior glide ofthe humeral head on glenoid technique to improve range motion choice based ‘convex...

Cross-references: MP-6.020 Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation MP-6.045 Sympathetic Therapy for the Treatment of Pain MP-6.046 Threshold Electrical Stimulation as a Treatment of Motor Disorders MP-6.047 Interferential Stimulation for Treatment of Pain MP-6.049 H-Wave Electrical Stimulation MP-6.050 Percutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (PENS) and Percutaneous Neuromodulation Therapy...

When a thin structure in which negative refraction occurs (a metallo-dielectric structure or a photonic crystal) is illuminated by a beam, the reflected and transmitted beam can undergo a large negative lateral shift. This phenomenon can be seen as an interferential enhancement of the geometrical shift and can be considered a signature of negative refraction.

Previous studies on brain activity during the completion of the Stroop test focused mainly on finding differences between brain activity during the completion of the congruent and incongruent parts of the test. Based on the results of those studies, the key role of the DLPFC and the ACC was emphasized in solving the cognitive conflict accompanying the completion of the incongruent part of the S...