Association between out-of-bed mobilization and complications of immobility in acute phase of severe stroke: A retrospective observational study.

Background: Medical complications often occur, particularly in the acute phase of severe stroke, and lead to poor outcomes. However, it is unclear whether out-of-bed mobilization (OM) reduces such complications or not in the acute phase of severe stroke. Thus, we investigated the association between OM and complications of immobility in the acute phase of severe stroke.

Effect of muscle strengthening on peripheral facial palsy: A randomized controlled trial.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of muscle strengthening intervention in peripheral facial palsy (PFP).

Methods: A randomized controlled trial was conducted at five hospitals. Fifty-one subjects with PFP who showed a response of less than 20% on electroneurography (ENoG) were enrolled.

Effects of weekly and fortnightly therapeutic exercise on physical function and health-related quality of life in individuals with hip osteoarthritis.

Background: Most previous studies on the effects of therapeutic exercise on osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip joint included participants with knee OA or postoperative participants. Moreover, although some systematic reviews recommend therapeutic exercise for hip OA, a consensus on the effective interventional frequency has not been reached. This study aimed to investigate the effects of therapeutic exercise performed at different frequencies on physical function and health-related quality of life in participants with hip OA.

Dietary thiamin and riboflavin intake and blood thiamin and riboflavin concentrations in college swimmers undergoing intensive training.

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of high-intensity physical activity during training on the biochemical status of thiamin and riboflavin in athletes. Thiamin and riboflavin concentrations in whole blood of a group of 19 athletes (6 men and 13 women) were measured during a low-intensity preparatory period and compared with measurements taken during a high-intensity training period. Additional variables measured included anthropometric characteristics, estimated energy expenditure during swim training, distance covered, resting energy expenditure obtained by indirect calorimetry, estimated energy requirement per day, and dietary intake of energy, thiamin, and riboflavin estimated from 3-day food records.

Age-related increase of insoluble, phosphorylated small heat shock proteins in human skeletal muscle.

Among mammalian heat shock proteins (Hsps), small Hsps (sHsps) are constitutively expressed in skeletal muscles. We investigated age-related changes of phosphorylation and cellular distribution of representative sHsps (Hsp27 and alphaB-crystallin) in human vastus lateralis muscle under resting conditions. We also examined upstream kinases which may be responsible for phosphorylation of sHsps, namely p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK), MAPK-activated protein kinase-2, and extracellular signal-regulated kinase-1/2.