Single Strength Training Session Improves Short-Term Memory in Cognitively Preserved Older Adults.

The purpose of the present study was to examine the acute effect of a single aerobic or strength training session on memory of cognitively preserved older adults. In this randomized controlled clinical trial, in the first visit the participants (52.2% men, aged 68.

Development, validity and reliability of patient perception of scoliosis-specific physiotherapy (physio-is) questionnaire.

Purpose: To develop a questionnaire for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) patients undergoing physiotherapeutic scoliosis-specific exercises (PSSE) and to evaluate its content validity, structural validity, and reliability.

Methodology: Seven PSSE treatment experts checked the content validity of the Patient's Perception of Scoliosis-Specific Physiotherapy Questionnaire (Physio-IS). For each Physio-IS item, the content validity indexes must be ≥ 90%.

Acute effects of different proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation stabilization techniques on the balance of elderly women.

Aim: To compare the acute effects of rhythmic stabilization (RS) and stabilizer reversal (SR) techniques of PNF on the balance of sedentary elderly women.

Methods: Women aged (≥70) were allocated into three groups: RS, SR and control (CR). The experimental groups (RS and SR) performed balance exercises with the addition of rhythmic stabilization techniques (RS group) or with stabilizers reversal (SR group) for 15 min.

Molecular analysis of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) isolates from healthy food-producing animals and humans with diarrhoea.

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) is a pathogen associated with acute diarrhoea in humans. To determine whether EPEC isolated from healthy food-producing animals possesses the same virulence gene repertoire as EPEC isolated from human with diarrhoea, we compared six typical EPEC (tEPEC) and 20 atypical EPEC (aEPEC) from humans with diarrhoea and 42 aEPEC from healthy animals (swine, sheep and buffaloes), using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), virulence markers, serotyping and subtyping of eae and tir genes. We found that human and animal isolates shared virulence genes, including nleB, nleE and nleF, which were associated with human diarrhoea.

Validity and Reliability of Palpatory Clinical Tests of Sacroiliac Joint Mobility: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Objective: The primary objective of this review was to investigate the reliability and validity of palpatory clinical tests of sacroiliac mobility. The secondary objective was to investigate which palpatory clinical tests of sacroiliac mobility exist in the literature.

Methods: PubMed, Embase, Scopus, Medline, and the Physiotherapy Evidence Database were searched.