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Pedro Ronikeile da Costa
Danúbia da Cunha Sá-Caputo
Adriano Arnóbio
Dulciane Nunes Paiva
Rafaelle Pacheco
Cristiane Kutter
Rebeca Costa
Paula Mantilla Giehl
Pedro Jesus Marin
Jay R. Salmon
Mark Tillman
Mario Bernardo-Filho
Published: Sept. 30, 2014
Whole body vibration (WBV) can be an important tool to treat patients with osteoarthritis (OA). The purpose of this study was to systematically review published research concerning the use of WBV in people with OA. In PubMed and Scopus, the number of publications (NP) is respectively to the keywords arthrosis, 289,586 and 10,569, osteoarthrosis, 299,158 and 3,952, arthritis, 251,453 and 236,849 and osteoarthritis, 56,323 and 80,008. Putting together the information found in the analyzed 4 papers, the numbers of subjects were ranging from 15 to 52 and frequencies ranging from 24 to 40 Hz. Self-report of the status of disease …
Olusegun Emmanuel Afolabi
Published: Sept. 30, 2014
Though a large body of research has investigated the impacts of domestic violence on adult’s victims, only few studies has been devoted to the exposure of children’s to probable inter-spousal trauma that disrupts their neurological and biochemical pathways in development. The aim of this paper is to analyze the current empirical research that discusses the biological and psychological inference of domestic violence and risky family environment on children’s health. In realizing this objective, the paper used the ecological framework to explain the interaction effects of bio- psychological processes on emotional regulation and social competence skills of children living in a …
Amjad Ali Channa
Saeed Ahmed Soomro
Roshan Ali Korejo
Band-e-Ali Khaskeli
Tofique Ahmed Qureshi
Imtiaz Ahmed Shah
Nawab Ali Kalhoro
Hinesh Kumar Maheshwari
Published: Aug. 30, 2014
Due to excessive use, synthetic medicines are going to be expensive and resistant, their residues accumulate in blood, that is why slowly and gradually they become resistant. Alternatives to synthetic medicines are herbal medicines that are cheap, with minimum or no side effect. Previous studies found that liquid extract of Aloe vera plant proved beneficial for animal’s health as it has immune-modulating, hypolipidemic, hypoglycemic and haematinic effects. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of A. vera extract on plasma biochemistry. A total of twenty (n = 20) male rabbits were selected and divided into 4 groups; …