The severity and urgency of the problem necessitates timely detection cases physical violence against children due to frequency high risk negative consequences. Purpose - provide an organizational framework for improving quality diagnosis in accordance with international standards based on available evidence. Materials methods. Practical guidelines reviewing establishing suspicion child abuse a...

The following are physical signs which can be elicited in patients with chronic airways obstruction: a reduction in the length of the trachea palpable above the sternal notch; tracheal descent with inspiration; excessive use of the scalene and sternomastoid muscles; excavation of the suprasternal and supraclavicular fossae during inspiration; jugular venous filling during expiration; loss of bu...

The diagnosis of left ventricular obstructive cardiomyopathy can be made in most instances by simple clinical examination, as practised by Paul Wood as early as 1960 (personal communication). Occasionally, there is difficulty in differentiating other causes of a systolic murmur associated with left ventricular disease. We have, therefore, assessed the diagnostic value of palpation of the caroti...

The soft neurological signs (SNS) and minor physical anomalies (MPA) were studied in 107 adult schizophrenics. The sample consisted chronic (N=60) and acute (N=47) schizophrenic subtypes. The SNS were found more in chronic patients (p< .01). The most prevalent abnormalities in SNS were related to the sensory integration and motor co-ordination. The release reflexes were rare though they were en...

BACKGROUND Adults with disabilities are less active and have higher rates of chronic disease than the general population. Given the health benefits of physical activity, understanding physical activity, its relationship with chronic disease, and health professional recommendations for physical activity among young to middle-age adults with disabilities could help increase the effectiveness of h...

The amount of treatment received by 380 patients with backache was found to have been influenced more by their distress and illness behaviour than by the actual physical disease. Patients showing a large amount of inappropriate illness behaviour had received significantly more treatment (p less than 0.001). The symptoms and signs of illness behaviour need to be clearly distinguished from those ...

THE contraction of the cardiac muscle is responsible for the movement of blood within the heart, alterations in the shape of the heart, and the movement of the heart within the chest. The cardiac physical signs are related to one or more of these consequences of the contraction and relaxation of cardiac muscle. Cardiac catheterization provides information about the pressures within the heart, a...