Plantar Venous Pump Activity, Generalized Joint Hypermobility, and Foot Mobility in Ballerinas: A Case-Control Study.

Context: The plantar venous pump (PVP) is a vascular network located between the muscles of the foot arch. It has been suggested foot mobility is critical for PVP activation.

Objective: This study investigates the effect of generalized joint hypermobility (GJH) on foot mobility and PVP activity in ballerinas and to determine how a short-term warm-up exercise impacts these parameters in the presence of GJH.

Alternative exercise methods for children with cerebral palsy: effects of virtual vs. traditional golf training.

Sport activities can increase the number of motor tasks performed by children with disabilities, helping to motivate these children to sustain life-long exercise. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of virtual and traditional golf training on balance, muscle strength, lower extremity flexibility and aerobic endurance in children with cerebral palsy. 19 children with unilateral cerebral palsy were divided into two groups, each of them received either virtual ( = 9) or traditional ( = 10) golf training, for over 12 weeks with three days of a 60-minute session/day.

Load distribution on the foot and lofstrand crutches of amputee football players.

Background: Amputee football is a worldwide popular sport with positive physical and psychological effects on the disabled. Amputee players use their hands dominantly for locomotion. However, the effect of using upper extremity which is not accommodated to loading is not very well known.

Prevalence of smoking, alcohol consumption and metabolic syndrome in patients with psoriasis.

Background: Coexistence of obesity, hypertension, insulin resistance and dyslipidemia is defined as metabolic syndrome (MBS), which is among the important risk indicators for cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and stroke. Smoking and alcohol consumption are the other factors which lead to an increase in the risk of cardiovascular disease.

Objective: To investigate the prevalence of metabolic syndrome, smoking and alcohol consumption in psoriasis patients and the relationship between disease severity and these factors.

Reduced central corneal thickness in patients with isotretinoin treatment.

Context: It is well known that oral isotretinoin treatment causes numerous ocular side-effects.

Objective: To investigate the effect of systemic isotretinoin treatment on central corneal thickness (CCT) values due to meibomian gland disease (MGD).

Participants: In this prospective study, 47 patients (27 men, 20 women) with nodulocystic acne vulgaris treated with oral isotretinoin (0.

Similarities and differences in cervical and thoracolumbar multisegmental motor responses and the combined use for testing spinal circuitries.

Study Design: Experimental study.

Objective: To determine similarities and differences of C7 and T11-12 multisegmental motor responses (MMR) studies for the upper limbs (UL) and lower limbs (LL).

Settings: Neuroscience Lab, TWU (School of Physical Therapy, TX, USA).

Intersession reliability of thoracolumbar multisegmental motor responses.

Study Design: Experimental design. Objective To determine test-retest reliability across sessions of the thoracolumbar multisegmental motor responses (MMR) in the upper and lower limbs of healthy subjects. Test-retest reliability of MMR has not been established or examined in previous studies.