'Camera pill' promising for diagnosis of small bowel disease
...as long as 25 feet) as the intestine's involuntary muscles push this "camera pill" forward.CE heralds an important step forward in the diagnosis of small bowel disorders, demonstrating more abnormalities than standard small bowel imaging techniques. But its greater promise may lie in conjunction with comput...Software that minimises facial disfigurement
... unpredictably, and surgery can interfere with the muscles and other soft tissue, it is difficult to predict what will happen after the skin flaps are rejoined during the operation. Pieper began tackling this problem more than 10 years ago with a program that predicted how a human face might look after sur...Study: Muscles respond to getting on your feet after spinal cord injury
...d that moving one leg in therapy can help activate muscles in the opposite leg. "Nobody has been able to show that in humans before," said Ferris, also an assistant professor of biomedical engineering. "It appears there are left-to-right connections in the signal in the spinal cord, not just connections from...Experimental treatment yields new hope for children battling cerebral palsy
...l palsy (CP) exhibit an inability to control their muscles as a result of damage to the region of the brain that controls muscle tone. The result often renders children unable to perform seemingly simple everyday tasks such as picking up a cup, eating finger foods or reaching to be picked up by a parent. C...The physics of films, butterflies, banknotes and rainbows
...onymous hero in Incredible Hulk bends his arm, his muscles need to bulge in just the right place and his skin needs to stretch in a realistic fashion. The only way to create such true-to-life two-dimensional images of supposedly three-dimensional scenes is to trace the path of light using the laws of physics......ted myoblast cells, which expressed VEGF, into the muscles of mice and documented the resulting new vessel growth. Blau and colleagues were able to distinguish a threshold level of VEGF that distinguished normal from abnormal blood vessel growth. The data indicate that long-term continuous delivery of VEGF, ...New insights into devastating basketball foot injury
...laced electromyography (EMG) sensors on two of the muscles of the foot to measure the electrical activity of ...injuries in the future." The researchers said that muscles within the foot and how they respond also play an important role in determining whether or not a spe...Blood-forming stem cells fail to repair heart muscle in Stanford study
...le under a microscope. She then examined the heart muscles of those mice 10 days and 30 days after the injection to search for signs of transplanted blood-forming stem cells. At 10 days she saw clusters of green cells, but none of them made proteins typical of heart muscle. However, the green cell...Myosin mutant points to human origins
... how humans evolved from ancestors with larger jaw muscles and smaller brains. This newly discovered mutation...ems responsible for the development of smaller jaw muscles in humans as compared to non-human primates. These converging lines of evidence suggest the question...Ultrasound treatment for hurt muscles may feel good, but doesn't promote healing, study suggests
...scientific evidence showing that it treats injured muscles effectively, said Steven Devor, the study's lead a...ontusion injuries inflicted on rats' gastrocnemius muscles the main muscle in the calf. Ultrasound treatment didn't hasten healing at all, even when compared ...Botox injections restore voices, confidence to voice disorder patients
...d strained, broken or breathy. The shots relax the muscles in the vocal cords, just as they do to the muscles in the furrowed foreheads of those who use Botox for cosmetic reasons. But until now, no long-term d...The preference for sweetened foods may decline after exercise
...ease in glycogen content in the liver and skeletal muscles following exercise. Prolonged exercise can lead to a decline in blood glucose concentration. Thus it is important to ingest carbohydrates after exercise in order to replenish and restore glycogen. Fluid replacement is also crucial to avoid severe d...Testosterone replacement improves muscle strength, function in HIV-infected women
...onger-terms effects of testosterone replacement on muscles and bones. They also note that testosterone-replacement treatment should be studied for other groups of women with weight loss associated with serious illness. The study's co-authors are first author Sara Dolan, NP, Stephanie Wilkie, NP, Negar Alia...AAN 2004 Public Leadership Award goes to Leon Fleisher, musician who overcame dystonia
... a crippling neurological disorder that caused the muscles in his hand to contract and become misshapen. Decades of grueling practice and performing on the piano, beginning at the age of four years old, resulted in Fleisher's suffering from focal dystonia. Focal dystonia is a particular form of the disord...Researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist use Botox to treat CP
... placebo to see if Botox injections would help the muscles in a patient's upper extremities relax, allowing t...ease causes the brain to send abnormal messages to muscles in the arms and legs, causing them to stiffen and contract (muscle spasticity). Patients with CP oft...Moving the mind's eye depends upon an intact eye movement system
...ongenital impairment in the development of her eye muscles (opthalmoplegia), had never been able to make an eye movement, but could read and scan the visual world by making saccadic head movements. The researchers found that in contrast to individuals who possessed the ability to move their eyes, AI coul...Univ. of Pittsburgh researcher presents six-year results of botox injections for bladder dysfunction
...ocking the release of the chemical that causes the muscles to contract. When injected into specific muscles, ...omes paralyzed or weakened, but leaves surrounding muscles unaffected, allowing for normal muscle function. Common urologic conditions like neurogenic detruso...Magnetic treatment may help people with spinal cord injuries
..., leading to improvements in their ability to move muscles and limbs, and ability to feel sensations. rTMS uses an electromagnet placed on the scalp to generate brief magnetic pulses, about the strength of an MRI scan, which stimulate the part of the brain called the cerebral cortex. Incomplete spinal cord...Pool-bound plyometrics help you get stronger with less pain
...ool group in their hamstrings, quadriceps and calf muscles two to three days after exercising. Yet plyome...elps develop explosive power in major leg and knee muscles and also enhances force production. Researchers assessed gains in muscle strength and speed at the b......ecause of decreased oxygen delivery to the working muscles and decreased ability to produce energy at the tissue level. In previous work, the Cornell researchers had shown that mild iron deficiency also reduces endurance, the capacity for physical work and exercise performance, and that iron supplementation ...