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Effect of kinesio taping on explosive muscle power of gluteus maximus of male athletes
OBJECTIVE: To determine the short-term effect of kinesio tape on
the explosive gluteus maximus power of male athletes, comparing
a recommended application pattern with a placebo.
METHODS: Sixty healthy university male athletes participated in
this double-blinded randomised controlled trial. Those athletes
with musculoskeletal injury 6 weeks prior to screening, serious
medical condition(s) in the previous 6 months, or metabolic
conditions affecting joint integrity were not selected. A different
investigator from the one who administered the intervention
randomly allocated participants to groups. Allocation was
concealed. Group A (n=30) received a recommended Y-strip
kinesio tape application and group B (n=30) a neutral placebo
application. Height displacement during a counter-movement
jump was measured with a reliable Vertec apparatus. Measurements
were recorded at baseline, immediately after strapping and 30
minutes later. Participants and raters were blinded to group
assignment. Descriptive statistics and analysis of variance for
repeated measures were used to determine the effect of time and
group on the measurements. Post hoc analysis was done using the
Tukey’s method.
RESULTS: Time (before, immediately after and 30 minutes after
taping) had a significant effect on the measurements. All the
measurements after intervention (either immediately or 30
minutes after) had significant differences compared with baseline
(95% CI [0.59, 2.29] and [1.50, 3.2] respectively.)
CONCLUSION: The recommended application type of taping
with kinesio tape was equally effective in significantly improving
the explosive power of the gluteus maximus in male athletes
immediately after and 30 minutes after taping in both groups.Hitech Therapy for sponsoring the Kinesio Tex Tape.http://www.journals.co.za/sama/m_sajsm.htm
Rifampin pharmacokinetics in children, with and without human immunodeficiency virus infection, hospitalized for the management of severe forms of tuberculosis
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Rifampin is a key drug in antituberculosis chemotherapy because it rapidly kills the majority of bacilli in tuberculosis lesions, prevents relapse and thus enables 6-month short-course chemotherapy. Little is known about the pharmacokinetics of rifampin in children. The objective of this study was to evaluate the pharmacokinetics of rifampin in children with tuberculosis, both human immunodeficiency virus type-1-infected and human immunodeficiency virus-uninfected.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Fifty-four children, 21 human immunodeficiency virus-infected and 33 human immunodeficiency virus-uninfected, mean ages 3.73 and 4.05 years (<it>P </it>= 0.68), respectively, admitted to a tuberculosis hospital in Cape Town, South Africa with severe forms of tuberculosis were studied approximately 1 month and 4 months after commencing antituberculosis treatment. Blood specimens for analysis were drawn in the morning, 45 minutes, 1.5, 3.0, 4.0 and 6.0 hours after dosing. Rifampin concentrations were determined by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry. For two sample comparisons of means, the Welch version of the t-test was used; associations between variables were examined by Pearson correlation and by multiple linear regression.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>The children received a mean rifampin dosage of 9.61 mg/kg (6.47 to 15.58) body weight at 1 month and 9.63 mg/kg (4.63 to 17.8) at 4 months after commencing treatment administered as part of a fixed-dose formulation designed for paediatric use. The mean rifampin area under the curve 0 to 6 hours after dosing was 14.9 and 18.1 μg/hour/ml (<it>P </it>= 0.25) 1 month after starting treatment in human immunodeficiency virus-infected and human immunodeficiency virus-uninfected children, respectively, and 16.52 and 17.94 μg/hour/ml (<it>P </it>= 0.59) after 4 months of treatment. The mean calculated 2-hour rifampin concentrations in these human immunodeficiency virus-infected and human immunodeficiency virus-uninfected children were 3.9 and 4.8 μg/ml (<it>P </it>= 0.20) at 1 month after the start of treatment and 4.0 and 4.6 μg/ml (<it>P </it>= 0.33) after 4 months of treatment. These values are considerably less than the suggested lower limit for 2-hour rifampin concentrations in adults of 8.0 μg/ml and even 4 μg/ml</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>Both human immunodeficiency virus-infected and human immunodeficiency virus-uninfected children with tuberculosis have very low rifampin serum concentrations after receiving standard rifampin dosages similar to those used in adults. Pharmacokinetic studies of higher dosages of rifampin are urgently needed in children to assist in placing the dosage of rifampin used in childhood on a more scientific foundation.</p
Author Correction: CHD3 helicase domain mutations cause a neurodevelopmental syndrome with macrocephaly and impaired speech and language
The original version of this Article contained an error in the spelling of the author Laurence Faivre, which was incorrectly given as Laurence Faive. This has now been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article