Avoidance behaviours while circumventing to the left or right of someone with different shoulder widths and facing directions: How do side, width, or orientation matter?

Background: Collision avoidance during locomotion is influenced by a variety of situational factors. When circumventing around an inanimate object, the amount of clearance is dependent on the side of avoidance. When avoiding other pedestrians, individuals most often choose to walk behind a moving pedestrian, and avoid people differently depending on their body size.

Collision avoidance behaviours between older adult and young adult walkers.

Background: Collision avoidance between two walkers requires a mutual adaptation based on visual information in order to be successful. Age-related changes to visuomotor processing, kinesthetic input, and intersegmental dynamics increases the risk of collision and falls in older adults. However, few studies examine behavioural strategies in older adults during collision avoidance tasks with another pedestrian.

Collision avoidance behaviours when circumventing people of different sizes in various positions and locations.

The current study examined whether young adults' avoidance behaviours differed when circumventing a larger versus smaller interferer. It was expected that avoidance behaviours (repulsion) would be affected by the interferer's size (i.e.

Fibromyalgia and myofascial pain syndrome: Two sides of the same coin? A scoping review to determine the lexicon of the current diagnostic criteria.

Objective: Consistent terminology to describe the diagnostic criteria for fibromyalgia (FM) and myofascial pain syndrome (MPS) is required to address the reported inadequacies in diagnosis. The present review investigated intervention studies in FM and MPS populations to determine the lexicon of the current diagnostic criteria used to identify chronic musculoskeletal pain patients.

Methods: Following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines, we conducted a scoping review to review systematically the literature obtained from five scientific databases between 1997 and February 2017.

A comparison of the clinical manifestation and pathophysiology of myofascial pain syndrome and fibromyalgia: implications for differential diagnosis and management.

Two prominent forms of chronic musculoskeletal pain disorders are fibromyalgia (FM) and myofascial pain syndrome (MPS). Inconsistent diagnosis of chronic musculoskeletal pain is an important clinical issue, as MPS is often mistaken for FM. Distinction between the two diagnoses depends largely on identification of either tender points or myofascial trigger points in FM and MPS, respectively.