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Background: Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting is an effective treatment for reducing symptoms and mortality in coronary artery patients.Although patients experience post sternotomy complications such as musculoskeletal disorders. So, the aim of this study was to compare the head, neck and upper trunk postures between patients who underwent coronary artery bypass grafting and healthy individuals. Methods: In this cross-sectional case-control study, twenty-one men (56.38 ± 8.64 years) were randomly selected from among patients who had been referred to Al-Zahra Cardiac Rehabilitation Center in Shiraz and undergone coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), and the angles of forward head, thoracic kyphosis, and rounded shoulder were measured. Twenty healthy men (51.70 ± 10.40 years) were also evaluated and compared in terms of the above variables. This study was designed and conducted as a pilot. The angles of the forward head and rounded shoulder were assessed by placing reflective markers ...

Temperature affects distal sensory & motor latencies & nerve conduction velocity but not necessarily at the same degree. Purpose of this study is to see which one is affected less and thus could be more reliable in cold conditions. A total of 32 healthy individuals with age range of 18-28 years (mean 22.25 +/- 2.2) participated in this study. Skin Temperature was recorded at wrist. Distal median motor & sensory latencies and transcarpal median NCV were recorded before and after immersion in cold water. Statistical analysis was performed using paired t-test with SPSS. All parameters were affected by cold but the effect was less dramatic in transcarpal NCV. Transcarpal median NCV is least affected parameter by cold, so it may be more reliable than sensory & motor latencies at wrist.