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PLoS One
September 2025
Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.
Objective: Backward walking may promote the preferential recruitment of lumbar extensors to optimize flexed spinal posture adopted LBP flexion subgroup. This cross-sectional study investigated the backward-walking exercise on a) real-time muscle activation, and b) its immediate effect on back pain intensity, movement control and lumbopelvic muscle activation in individuals with chronic non-specific LBP characterized with lumbar flexion syndrome.
Method: Thirty adults with chronic non-specific LBP with clinical manifestation of flexion syndrome received assessments of their movement control at static standing and during the five-minute forward walking test, conducted before and after a 15-minute treadmill walking training in forward or backward direction (as the immediate effect), while real-time adaptation of the lumbopelvic muscles during walking training was also evaluated.
Front Cell Dev Biol
August 2025
Department of Anatomy, College of Basic Medicine, Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China.
Objective: The myodural bridge complex (MDBC) is a tendon-like structure highly conserved during vertebrate evolution, suggesting it plays an important physiological role. Substantial evidence indicates that the MDBC may contribute to cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) circulation by generating mechanical force. Studying its developmental process may offer new insights into CSF dynamics and lead to improved strategies for diagnosing and treating neurodegenerative diseases.
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August 2025
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The Ottawa Hospital, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1H 8L6, Canada.
Prosthetic joint infections (PJIs) pose significant challenges, often requiring multiple surgeries that lead to soft tissue loss, dead space, and fibrosis. Wound breakdown increases the risk of polymicrobial infection and treatment failure. The vertical rectus abdominis myocutaneous (VRAM) flap is a proven method for complex wound coverage, but its role in managing hip PJI is underexplored.
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August 2025
Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, 770 Welch Rd, Suite 400, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, USA.
Deep Inferior Epigastric Artery perforator flaps (DIEP flaps) have become the gold standard in autologous breast reconstruction; yet they remain complex procedures due to highly individual perforator anatomy. Increasingly, computed tomography (CT) angiography is used for preoperative planning but is conventionally viewed on 2D screens in black and white. With the rise of Virtual and Mixed Reality, early case studies have demonstrated the utility of 3D-Mixed Reality headsets for DIEP flap planning by immersively exploring projections of perforator anatomy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Electromyogr Kinesiol
August 2025
School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
Shear wave elastography (SWE) is a reliable method of estimating stiffness of superficial rectus femoris (RF) muscle at various muscle lengths. Its reliability has not been assessed in deeper muscle regions or its overlying fascia and skin tissue. 20 healthy participants completed two visits in which RF shear wave velocity (SWV) was measured twice, separated by 30mins, at four depths (skin-SKIN, fascia-FAS, superficial muscle-SUP, and deep muscle-DEEP) in three positions (relaxed-REL, neutral-NEU, and stretched-STR).
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