conditions of the hip and knee

... determine the effects of GS compared with placebo during the first six weeks of the intervention and the effects of the walking program without the use of GS during the remaining weeks Furthermore, the ... groups on the mean number of days walked during each of the 12 weeks of the Stepping Out program and on the mean number of steps walked per ‘walking’ day during that time Type and usage of rescue ... combined effects of exercise and GS on relieving symptoms of hip and knee OA The main aim of this feasibility study was to evaluate the combined effects of a progressive walking program and GS intake...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:23

... polymorphism at these loci and the presence of DDH and PPA We also explored the effect of genotype on acetabular morphology and severity of the conditions Patients and methods Hypothetically, it ... drawn from the centre of the head to the lateral edge of the acetabulum on antero-posterior radiographs of the pelvis [25] The acetabular index was measured as described by Sharp, between the inter-tear ... laxity and the other affecting the shape of acetabulum to be responsible for the causation of DDH Carter and Wilkinson reported increased incidence of joint laxity with DDH in 1964 [32] With the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 08:21

... approx 1.5 m The study site Hoa An is located in an area where an interaction of the tidal regimes of the South Chinese Sea and of the Gulf of Thailand eliminate each other Here, the tidal amplitude ... from the irrigation ditches of the rice fields At both study sites the values for the pH, BOD, NH4 and phosphate are conform to the requirements of the Vietnamese standards for the use of surface ... Outlook Regarding the ground water and the surface water quality the two study sites Hoa An and An Binh are typical for the conditions of the rural area of the Mekong Delta At present, there are substantial...

Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 17:20

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 04:20

... in reason of the magnitude of its hardening exponent and strength coefficient On the other hand, the decrease of the stress concentration factor Kσ after yielding and the increase of the strain ... values well below to the values observed in the other directions, these results allow to assume the hypothesis that the material inside the component and in the neighbourhood of the notch develop ... determine the magnitude of the theoretical stress concentration factor Kt as well as the pattern of the stress distribution The photoelastic model of the plate with a central hole was made of a polymer...

Ngày tải lên: 24/05/2014, 20:32

... constituents on the toxicity of the recombinant samples under dry weather conditions An influence of flow conditions on the substance- and toxicity-related removal efficiency of the STP and thus on the harmful ... Page of 13 Figure Impact of precipitation on wastewater flow Summary of the relationship between the daily amount of precipitation in the area of Trier and the wastewater flow per day in the influent ... Germany) and J.T Baker (Deventer, The Netherlands) For chemical analysis, standard stock solutions of the analytes and the internal standards were prepared both in methanol and hexane and stored...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... linear boundary conditions, we make use of the fixed point theory So, in the case of a Dirichlet problem, the set of solutions of 1.1 coincide with the set of the fixed points of the operator T ... books of Bernfeld and Lakshmikantham and Ladde et al the classical theory of the method of lower and upper solutions and the monotone iterative technique are given This gives the solution as the ... w, and r monotone functions in some of their variables The first case covers the periodic case and the second one separated boundary conditions In the proofs, a more general definition of lower and...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 11:20

... constituents on the toxicity of the recombinant samples under dry weather conditions An influence of flow conditions on the substance- and toxicity-related removal efficiency of the STP and thus on the harmful ... Page of 13 Figure Impact of precipitation on wastewater flow Summary of the relationship between the daily amount of precipitation in the area of Trier and the wastewater flow per day in the influent ... Germany) and J.T Baker (Deventer, The Netherlands) For chemical analysis, standard stock solutions of the analytes and the internal standards were prepared both in methanol and hexane and stored...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 17:20

... planting of spruce on the very boundaries of its ecovalence and the climate change (weather course) over the recent years The weather course affects the condition of forest stands in the individual ... causes of the decline of spruce stands in five selected regions of the Czech Republic – from FAVZ to FAVZ in nutrient-rich and acidic sites With respect to the size of the paper and to the fact ... stands 3–37 years, Norway spruce at the boundary of its ecovalence The decline has been recorded in the last years The visual symptom of the injury in all the analyzed stands is yellowing of...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 03:22

... the limit of the lower optimum of 130 mg·kg–1 In the subsequent organomineral horizon (Ae/Ep) the values of Ca indicate the lower optimum reserves in the range of 80–160 mg·kg–1, and in 15% of ... (Table 3) and fluctuate in the range of 0.17–0.28% In 50% of the studied plots they are above the limit value (0.2%) and can be an excessive load for the forest ecosystem The content of this element ... carriers of sorption properties of soil at these depths, and the long-term disturbance of humification processes may be connected with a disorder of the nutrient status of biocoenoses and with their...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 10:21

... results of the analysis of the relationship between the stem form of larch of the tested provenances and the index of stand density, obtained during this study, were not expected Although there ... of the stem form of the studied larch partial populations The authors of the present study are of the opinion that their results permit to formulate the hypothesis about specific properties of ... the provenance or by the provenance region This was confirmed by results of the analysis of the tree form factors and tapering Relationship between stand density and variation of the stem profile...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 10:22

... measurement of the same trees for different plots The center of each plot was located at least m from the closest stem in the middle of a group of trees Since the objective of the study was to examine the ... study sites, and the suitability of the SOC and UOC equations to represent these distributions was assessed The second objective of this study was to characterize the angular distribution of diffuse ... information about the light sensor The construction of the light sensor and the head is described in Fielder and Comeau [16] and Grace [19], respectively The light sensor consisted of a gallium arsenide...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22

... manuscript and its revision SG wrote with MM the statistical section of the protocol, checked the data and performed the statistical analysis IK performed the follow-up of the trial and the radiographic ... 12:515-524 Lequesne MG, Laredo JD: The faux profil (oblique view) of the hip in the standing position Contribution to the evaluation of osteoarthritis of the adult hip Ann Rheum Dis 1998, 57:676-681 ... devised the protocol of the trial and that of the present study with MM, performed the readings with CC, contributed to data analysis and wrote the manuscript CC performed the readings and significantly...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:20

... published Therefore, in the present double-blind and placebo-controlled clinical study, we sought to evaluate the efficacy and safety of 5-Loxin® in treatment of OA of the knee We assessed the effectiveness ... to the design of the project and data analysis, and was primarily responsible for writing the manuscript KVA contributed to the design of the project, patient recruitment and management, and ... drug therapy in patients with osteoarthritis of the hip or knee J Rheumatol 1988, 15:1833-1840 Lequesne MG, Mery C, Samson M, Gerard P: Indexes of severity for osteoarthritis of the hip and knee...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23

... synovial fluid are the presence of hyaluronic acid and the ph of synovial fluid [8] On the other hand mechanical destruction of joint may be caused by several factors Firstly the initial trauma ... with a history of progressive, severe hip pain ten years after a gun shot injury to his right hip Radiographs at the time of injury confirmed the presence of bullet around the hip joint He was ... disorganization of the columnar epithelium Tide mark duplication and unequal thickness of the cartilage was observed in the articular cartilage while the synovium showed both cellular and stromal...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 10:23

... of the maxilla and the mandible were peformed under general anaesthesia A mixture of cancellous bone from the iliac crest and Grafton®-DBM-Putty (Osteotech, Eatontown, NJ, USA) was used for the ... correction of the sagittal intermaxillary relationship and the vertical dimension Some authors emphasize the advantages and satisfactory long-term results of the one stage procedure [4,15], but others ... optimal position and angulation of the inserted implants [16-18] A similar variant of the maxillary sandwich osteotomy for the rehabilitation of the severely atrophied maxilla is the horseshoe Le...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 23:22

... Following the suggestions of scientific literature on the advantages of the compactness, reliability, ease of use and affordability of the 980 nm Diode Lasers, we evaluated the efficacy and safety of ... are reduced [17,18] The lasers normally adopted offer the enormous advantage of being conveyed in a fibre, which serves as the working tip at the end of the handpiece The use of flexible, length-adjustable ... question the efficacy of the 980nm Laser for photosclerosis of lesions and areas with little melanin and hemoglobin pigmentation [7] Furthermore, to avoid exaggerated fluences and thermal damage to the...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:48

... (CO2), ammonia (NH3) and methane (CH4) into the atmosphere ♦ Most of the H2O vapor condensed to form the oceans ♦ As a result of three key processes (outlined on the next slide), the air ended up ... grew much warmer, thereby preventing freezing and accelerating surface “weathering” Except for Oxygen, almost all of the Earth’s atmosphere today Evolution of the Earth Process and Equation” its ... Multi-celled organisms appeared, and some of these evolved into soft-bodied worm-like animals with a variety of organs, and still later into the first hard-shelled creatures capable of leaving fossils ♦...

Ngày tải lên: 04/04/2013, 10:51

... techniques The report then describes the recent status of each of the issues RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN INCREASING OZONE CONCENTRATION Ozone generation Method and scale of use Table summarizes the ... concentration and decomposition RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN OZONATION TECHNOLOGY Objectives of ozonation The main objectives of ozonation are to reduce trihalomethane and to remove taste and odor These ... treate the cryptosporidium parvum by chlorine disinfection, the turbidity at the exit of the sand filtration basin is set to a turbidity of 0.1 degrees or less However, this method is neither safe...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 08:40

... proposed the necessity of city-wide recycling system and other measures The fluctuation of water consumption in this period reflects the people’s consideration on the WCP introduced The people ... relocation of large-scale factories in Tokyo such as Toyosu Gas, Ebisu Brewery, Kirin Beer and others to the outskirts of Tokyo Another major factor was the reduction of water use in the factory ... conservation They also continuously make efforts to promote the utilization of SWT devices including the distribution of free SWT-tap developed by them as shown in Fig.7 On the other hand, for triggering...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:17