Clinical and Experimental Dental Research, 2021 Backgrounds Jaw and neck muscles may be activated by chewing load using a hard food. However, it remains unclear how effects the gum hardness to the coordinated features in jaw and neck muscle activities during chewing performance.
Tomohiro Ishii +7 more
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Assessing the Reliability of Echo Intensity of Craniovertebral Muscle Group using B-Mode Ultrasound: A Technical Note [PDF]
Journal of Biomedical Physics and Engineering, 2021 An acceptable reliability is needed for each scale and a valid decision-making process. Ultrasonography is a simple, cost-effective, and accessible tool compared to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to assess echo intensity (EI) as a biomarker of muscle ...
Alireza Ahmadipoor +4 more
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ATP-sensitive muscle afferents activate spinal trigeminal neurons with meningeal afferent input in rat:pathophysiological implications for tension-type headache [PDF]
, 2016 Background: Tension-type headache and other primary headaches may be triggered or aggravated by disorders of pericranial muscles, which is possibly due to convergent or collateral afferent input from meningeal and muscular receptive areas.
Ellrich, Jens +3 more
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Frontiers in Physiology, 2022 Background: Respiratory muscle electromyography (EMG) can identify whether a muscle is activated, its activation amplitude, and timing. Most studies have focused on the activation amplitude, while differences in timing and duration of activity have been ...
Antenor Rodrigues +13 more
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Supraclavicularis proprius muscle associated with supraclavicular nerve entrapment [PDF]
, 2011 Entrapment neuropathy of the supraclavicular nerve is rare and, when it occurs, is usually attributable to branching of the nerve into narrow bony clavicular canals.
Raikos, A. +6 more
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Effectiveness of an Eye-Cervical Re-Education Program in Chronic Neck Pain: A Randomized Clinical Trial [PDF]
, 2020 Objectives. Proprioceptive training is popularly applied as a therapeutic exercise method in physiotherapy. Its effects on pain and range of motion are only poorly evaluated.
Chamorro-Moriana, Gema +5 more
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Visuomotor Transformation in the Fly Gaze Stabilization System [PDF]
, 2008 For sensory signals to control an animal's behavior, they must first be transformed into a format appropriate for use by its motor systems. This fundamental problem is faced by all animals, including humans.
Holger G Krapp +2 more
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Musculoskeletal networks reveal topological disparity in mammalian neck evolution
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2017 Background The increase in locomotor and metabolic performance during mammalian evolution was accompanied by the limitation of the number of cervical vertebrae to only seven.
Patrick Arnold +2 more
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Platysma Flap with Z-Plasty for Correction of Post-Thyroidectomy Swallowing Deformity [PDF]
Archives of Plastic Surgery, 2013 Background Recently, the number of thyroid surgery cases has been increasing; consequently, the number of patients who visit plastic surgery departments with a chief complaint of swallowing deformity has also increased.
Min Kyeong Jeon, Seok Joo Kang, Hook Sun
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The effect of one period of exercise program on non athlete's neck ROM and chronic neck pain
مجله پژوهش در علوم توانبخشی, 2011 Introduction: After low back pain, the neck pain is the most prevalent pain among (especially elderly) peoples. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of one period of exercise program on subjects neck ROM and chronic neck pain ...
Amir Letafatkar +4 more
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