Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5718/1510079
A Step towards a Field Based Agility Test in Team Sports
David Drake, Rodney Kennedy, Jonny Davis, Matthew Godfrey, Simon MacLeod and Amy Davis
Article Type: Original Article | First Published: November 23, 2017
Agility perfos makinrmance tests are limited by the requirement for force plates, timing gates or expensive camera systemg application into practice challenging. The primary aim of this study was to assess the inter-rater reliability of a field based 1v1 agility test encompassing perceptual-action performance. A secondary aim was to assess the relationship between the 1v1 agility tests with a range of physical performance tests including a commonly used Y step test....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5718/1510078
Plantar Fibromatosis: An Unusual Cause of Plantar Pain
Filipa Vieira, Clarissa Canella, Flavia Costa, Alessandro Severo and Edson Marchiori
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: November 22, 2017
Ledderhose's disease or plantar fibromatosis is a rare benign condition characterized by local proliferation of fibrous nodular tissue within the plantar aponeurosis. The diagnosis of this disease is based on clinical examination but imaging is often required to confirm the diagnosis or reveal alternative diagnosis. Because the cause of Ledderhose disease is still unknown....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2572-3235.1510030
The Key Role of Multislice Computed Tomography for Direct Aortic Trans-catheter Aortic Valve Implantation
Giuseppe Bruschi, Fesc Paola Colombo, Bruno Merlanti, Diana Artioli, Stefano Nava, Francesco Soriano, Oriana Belli, Francesco Musca, Luca Botta, Giuseppe Tata, Ettore Colombo, Fabrizio Oliva and Claudio F Russo
Article Type: Review Article | First Published: December 30, 2017
Retrograde femoral implantation is considered the less invasive approach for TAVI, however TAVI patients are also often affected by severe iliac-femoral arteriopathy, rendering the trans-femoral approach either unemployable or are deemed to carry a high risk of vascular injury....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2572-4037.1510021
Medical Presentations of Psychosis - Mimics and Life-Threatening Illnesses
Scott Sulik, Carly Eastin, Kimberly Nordstrom and Michael P Wilson
Article Type: Review Article | First Published: December 30, 2017
Disordered cognition, commonly but inaccurately referred to as "psychosis", is a challenging symptom to evaluate and manage in the critical care or emergency department setting. Although exacerbation of a primary psychiatric disorder may indeed be associated with psychosis, a large number of medical illnesses may present similarly. Often, there is no single test to establish a definitive diagnosis....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2572-4215.1510013
Muscle Activation Patterns in Wheelchair Basketball Athletes with and without Physical Disability
Matthew Hanks and Gretchen Oliver
Article Type: Research Article | First Published: January 12, 2018
Wheelchair basketball is a highly competitive sport that uses primarily upper extremity and lumbo-pelvic musculature to accomplish all tasks of the sport (i.e., wheelchair propulsion, dribbling, passing, shooting, and rebounding). Free throw execution is one of the basic skills first introduced when learning the sport of wheelchair basketball, and the mechanics utilized during a free throw attempt are similar to overall shooting mechanics. ...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/IJFA-2017/1710004
Freiberg Disease Presenting as Forefoot Pain
Ferit Dogan, Mustafa Turgut Yildizgoren and Pelin Zeynep Bekin Sarikaya
Article Type: Letter To The Editor | First Published: December 16, 2017
Freiberg's disease is typically described as a vascular necrosis of a metatarsal head. It most commonly affects the second metatarsal. Bilateral involvement has been published in the literature. The classical location of this disorder is the second MT head (68%), although it can also be found in the other lesser MTs, most commonly the third (27%), followed by the fourth (3%)....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2377-3634/1410082
Severe Kidney Damage in Diabetics on Alternative Medicine
Dalip Ragoobirsingh, Errol Morrison and Herbert Thompson
Article Type: Research Article | First Published: January 22, 2018
Thirteen diabetic patients who had a history of exposure to herbal treatment and/or food toxins were compared to 10 insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) patients and 10 normal controls. Each group was matched for age, gender, body mass index (BMI) and in the case of the diabetic controls duration of diabetes. Microalbumin, urinary amylase, glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) and blood pressure were measured using standard techniques....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2377-3634/1410080
Role of TXNIP Biology in Glucose Metabolism
Alec B Chaves, Jacob M Haus and Joseph A Houmard
Article Type: Review Article | First Published: January 08, 2018
Skeletal muscle insulin resistance is a major contributor to the natural history of type 2 diabetes mellitus. A common underpinning that exists behind the mechanisms of insulin resistance is the overproduction of reactive oxygen species, which may be exacerbated by a protein target known as thioredoxin-interacting protein (TXNIP). ...