Effect of age on muscle functions investigated with surface electromyography.

The purpose of this study was to investigate changes in the surface electromyographic (EMG) signal as a means of defining age-related central and peripheral mechanisms affecting muscle fatigue. Spectral and temporal variables of the surface EMG signal were studied during voluntary isometric contractions of the dominant biceps brachii muscle in a group of 8 healthy elderly men (age range 67-86 years) and a group of 10 healthy young men (age range 23-34 years). The maximal torque developed and the rate of decrease (slope) of spectral variables and conduction velocity (CV) were statistically higher in the young subjects than in the elderly subjects.

Effectiveness of the Michigan splint in reducing functional cervical disturbances: a preliminary study.

There is controversial evidence for a functional link between the masticatory apparatus and the cervical spine. The aim of this work was to perform a preliminary study to evaluate the effectiveness of the Michigan splint for the treatment of functional cervical disturbances. Forty patients with functional cervical disturbances were randomly organized into test and control groups.

[Role of nutritional support and physical exercise in the dyslipidemia of renal transplantation].

The purpose of the study is to evaluate the effect of diet and physical exercise on the dyslipemia of renal transplant (RT) patients 52 pts, transplanted between 12/85 and 4/87, subdivided into 2 groups (A and B), were studied. Characteristics of the diet adopted in patients in group A are: low carbohydrates, moderate animal protein, unsaturated and polyunsaturated fat in high rate. The second group had a lower animal protein and more fiber rich diet than the first one and a program of PE.

[Treatment of tinnitus with the TENS stimulator in cervico-arthrosis patients. Preliminary results].

The combination of ear buzzing and cervical arthrosis is frequently encountered in both ENT practice and physiatry. A group of 16 patients presenting this combination was therefore selected. After a series of ENT and physiatric tests the patients were subjected to audiological and radiographic examination in order to exclude any pathologies different from the two under study.

[Perineal functional rehabilitation in female urinary stress incontinence].

Since January 1985 13 female patients with urinary incontinence induced by pure stress have been subjected to perineal functional rehabilitation at the S. Giovanni Battista Hospital Functional Rehabilitation Service and Turin Health Service Unit 23 in collaboration with the hospital's Urology Division. The results are encouraging and suggest that this treatment may be a valid alternative to surgery.

[Orgotein iontophoresis in the therapy of induratio penis plastica].

In objective terms the results of medical and physical treatment of Peyronie's disease are still indubitably disappointing. However personal experience has shown that medicated ionophoresis using orgotein does at least eliminate or reduce the pain in Peyronie's disease.

[Medical, physical and rehabilitative treatment in a case load of 250 patients affected by scapulo-humeral periarthritis].

A series of 250 patients with scapulohumeral periarthritis, treated as outpatients in september 1982-september 1984 is presented. Medical, physical and rehabilitation treatment was targeted at the clinical phase of the condition and the results are evaluated.