Effectiveness of Muscle Energy Technique and Eccentric Training on Hamstring Flexibility in Athletes: A Comparitive study

INTRODUCTION: The Hamstring muscles are found to be the most prevalent for the tightness in the body. Tightness of these muscles produces decrease range of motion and reduced flexibility of the pelvis, hip and knee joints. Muscle stiffness of the lower extremities and the consequential decrease in joint flexibility are considered to be major etiological factors in musculoskeletal injuries. Muscle tightness is a limiting factor for optimal physical performance including daily activities and an important intrinsic factor for sports injuries AIM OF THE STUDY: To compare the effectiveness of muscle energy technique and eccentric training by Active knee extension and Sit and reach test in athletes. OBJECTIVES: 1. To find the effectiveness of muscle energy technique on hamstring flexibility by Active knee extension test and Sit and reach test in athletes. 2. To find the effectiveness of eccentric training on hamstring flexibility by Active knee extension test and Sit and reach test in athletes. 3. To Compare the effectiveness of muscle energy technique and eccentric training on hamstring flexibility by Active knee extension test and Sit and reach test in athletes. MATERIAL AND METHODS: For the study 30 athletes with hamstring tightness were selected. The subjects were treated with Muscle Energy Technique (Group A) and Eccentric Training (Group B). The treatment was given to the athletes for one session with two days of rest. The outcome was measured in terms of Active knee extension test (Popliteal angle) and sit and reach test. RESULTS: Independent-t test was used to compare the pretest-posttest values between the groups. On comparing the Mean values of Group A and B of both the techniques shows significant increase in the post test. But Muscle Energy Technique shows highest Mean value which is more effective than Eccentric training at p < 0.001. CONCLUSION: Muscle Energy Technique is more effective than Eccentric training in improvement of Hamstring flexibility in healthy athletes

Case Study on Early-Stage Risk Prediction by Machine Learning Algorithms

In the healthcare sector, we generally require continuous monitoring of the patient, The model is designed to assist patients in understanding the potential hazards associated with the infectious illness&nbsp;by using Machine Learning algorithms.&nbsp;It provides recommendations as per the infection severity, enabling patients to effectively monitor their condition independently. All the data records are initialized in the dataset, these are stored in the database which helps in more accuracy of illness prediction. This&nbsp;software interface is simple, based on&nbsp;symptoms of the patient the&nbsp;algorithms will process and gives&nbsp;appropriate infection details,&nbsp;suggestions on severity of infection,&nbsp;recommends to consult a doctor or not. It also ensures the seasonal diseases ongoing in particular areas, identifies them, and gives regular alerts to the users. Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs)&nbsp;are currently causing more infections are highlighted, and alerts the user by giving information and precautions to be taken for&nbsp;improvement of health. Predictive models and classification algorithms, examine the symptoms specified by the patient as input. Then the most possible disease name will be displayed as an output. Decision Tree, Naive Bayes Classifier, and Random Forest Algorithm are used to forecast the disease. Disease prediction is accomplished by employing ML Algorithms

Framework for comprehensive enhancement of brain tumor images with single-window operation

Usage of grayscale format of radiological images is proportionately more as compared to that of colored one. This format of medical image suffers from all the possibility of improper clinical inference which will lead to error-prone analysis in further usage of such images in disease detection or classification. Therefore, we present a framework that offers single-window operation with a set of image enhancing algorithm meant for further optimizing the visuality of medical images. The framework performs preliminary pre-processing operation followed by implication of linear and non-linear filter and multi-level image enhancement processes. The significant contribution of this study is that it offers a comprehensive mechanism to implement the various enhancement schemes in highly discrete way that offers potential flexibility to physical in order to draw clinical conclusion about the disease being monitored. The proposed system takes the case study of brain tumor to implement to testify the framework

Lung Rest During Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Neonatal Respiratory Failure-Practice Variations and Outcomes.

OBJECTIVE: Describe practice variations in ventilator strategies used for lung rest during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for respiratory failure in neonates, and assess the potential impact of various lung rest strategies on the duration of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and the duration of mechanical ventilation after decannulation. DATA SOURCES: Retrospective cohort analysis from the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization registry database during the years 2008-2013. STUDY SELECTION: All extracorporeal membrane oxygenation runs for infants less than or equal to 30 days of life for pulmonary reasons were included. DATA EXTRACTION: Ventilator type and ventilator settings used for lung rest at 24 hours after extracorporeal membrane oxygenation initiation were obtained. DATA SYNTHESIS: A total of 3,040 cases met inclusion criteria. Conventional mechanical ventilation was used for lung rest in 88% of cases and high frequency ventilation was used in 12%. In the conventional mechanical ventilation group, 32% used positive end-expiratory pressure strategy of 4-6 cm H2O (low), 22% used 7-9 cm H2O (mid), and 43% used 10-12 cm H2O (high). High frequency ventilation was associated with an increased mean (SEM) hours of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (150.2 [0.05] vs 125 [0.02]; p \u3c 0.001) and an increased mean (SEM) hours of mechanical ventilation after decannulation (135 [0.09] vs 100.2 [0.03]; p = 0.002), compared with conventional mechanical ventilation among survivors. Within the conventional mechanical ventilation group, use of higher positive end-expiratory pressure was associated with a decreased mean (SEM) hours of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (high vs low: 136 [1.06] vs 156 [1.06], p = 0.001; mid vs low: 141 [1.06] vs 156 [1.06]; p = 0.04) but increased duration of mechanical ventilation after decannulation in the high positive end-expiratory pressure group compared with low positive end-expiratory pressure (p = 0.04) among survivors. CONCLUSIONS: Wide practice variation exists with regard to ventilator settings used for lung rest during neonatal respiratory extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Use of high frequency ventilation when compared with conventional mechanical ventilation and use of low positive end-expiratory pressure strategy when compared with mid positive end-expiratory pressure and high positive end-expiratory pressure strategy is associated with longer duration of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Further research to provide evidence to drive optimization of pulmonary management during neonatal respiratory extracorporeal membrane oxygenation is warranted

Comparative study of total late postoperative astigmatism between phacoemulsification and manual SICS

INTRODUCTION: The use of the intraocular lens implant has been the most exciting development in ophthalmology of the last quarter century. So, during the past 2 decades the advances in cataract surgery have produced better visual outcome and induced less astigmatism. Improvement by means of shortened healing time, a less cumbersome postoperative period, reduced chances of complication and a more predictable outcome. This demand for improvement can be satisfied by universal application of small incision surgery which allows faster and safer healing and reduced suture induced astigmatism. Two principal surgical techniques are used. 1. Phacoemulsification and posterior chamber intraocular lens implantation. 2. Manual small incision sutureless cataract surgery with posterior chamber intraocular lens implantation. Hence, this study is an attempt of comparison of total late astigmatism between manual SICS and phacoemulsification of 100 cases at Govt. Rajaji Hospital. AIM OF THE STUDY: To compare the Total Late Postoperative Astigmatism of patients undergoing Phacoemulsification with patients undergoing Manual SICS. MATERIAL AND METHODS: This study was conducted at Madurai Medical College, Department of Ophthalmology, Madurai from 2008 – 2009 July. It is a randomised retrospective study. A total of 100 cases were enrolled in to the study. Two experience surgeon who were well versed with two cataract extraction procedures operated the cases in the period of 2007 – 2008. For all the patients, eyelashes were clipped, received hourly antibiotic drops, oral acetazolamide 250mg was given in the previous night and taken of the surgery next day. Patients who underwent Phacoemulsification were discharged on the 1st post operative day. Patients who underwent Manual SICS were discharged on the second postoperative day

Physico–Chemical Analysis Of Sugar Mill Effluents And Its Effect On Seed Germination Of Paddy (Oryza sativa) and Green gram (Vigna radiata)

Sugar factories assume a noteworthy part in discharging so as to contaminate the water bodies and land a lot of wastewater as profluent. The sugar plant effluents are having high measure of suspended solids, broke up solids, BOD, COD, chlorides, sulfates and so on. The ceaseless utilization of these effluents destructively influences the yields when utilized for watering system. In the present study, physico-synthetic parameters of sugar factory profluent was resolved and the impact of different fixations (0%, 10%, 25%, half, 75 % and 100%) of the gushing on seed germination, germination pace of Paddy (Oryza sativa) and Green gram (Vigna radiata) was likewise contemplated. The low gushing pH , all out broke down solids, natural oxygen interest and substance oxygen request, show the high inorganic and natural substance with an acidic burden. Germination rates diminish with expanding grouping of emanating in the seeds tried with untreated sugar factory effluents and the germination rate was asusual and typical in the seeds tried with the treated gushing

Comparison of the Adherence to the American Diabetes Association Guidelines of Diabetes Care in Primary Care and Subspecialty Clinics

Abstract Background Diabetes mellitus is a major public health problem with significant morbidity and mortality. Evidence based guidelines have been proposed to reduce the micro and macrovascular complications, but studies have shown that these goals are not being met. We sought to compare the adherence to the American Diabetes Association guidelines for measurement and control of glycohemoglobin (A1c), blood pressure (BP), lipids (LDL) and microalbuminuria (MA) by subspecialty and primary care clinics in an academic medical center. Methods 390 random charts of patients with diabetes from Family Practice (FP), Internal Medicine (IM) and Diabetes (DM) clinics at Michigan State University were reviewed. Results We reviewed 131, 134 and 125 charts from the FP, IM and DM clinics, respectively. DM clinic had a higher percentage of patients with type 1 diabetes 43/125 (34.4%) compared with 7/131 (5.3%) in FP and 7/134 (5.2%) in IM clinics. A1c was measured in 99%, 97.8% and 100% subjects in FP, IM and DM clinics respectively. B.P. was measured in all subjects in all three clinics. Lipids were checked in 97.7%, 95.5% and 92% patients in FP, IM and DM clinics respectively. MA was measured at least once during the year preceding the office visit in 85.5%, 82.8% and 76.8% patients in FP, IM and DM clinics respectively. A1C was controlled (<7%) in 38.9, 43.3, 28.8% of patients in the FP, IM and DM clinics, respectively (p = 0.034). LDL was controlled (<100 mg/dl or 2.586 mmol/l) in 71.8, 64.9, 64% of patients in the FP, IM and DM clinics, respectively. MA was controlled (<30 mg/gm creatinine) in 60.3%, 51.5% and 60% patients in FP, IM and DM clinics respectively (P = 0.032). BP was controlled (<130/80) in 59.5, 67.2 and 52.8% patients in the FP, IM and DM clinics, respectively. Conclusion Testing rates for A1C, LDL, and MA were high, in both subspecialty and primary care clinics. However, the degree of control was not optimal. Significantly fewer patients in the DM clinic had A1c <7%, the cause of which may be multifactorial.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/111055/1/40200_2015_Article_158.pd

SECURE ENDORSED AVOIDING REPETITION IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE APPROACH

Previous systems cannot support differential authorization duplicate check, in several applications. Inside the recent occasions, structural design was offered that made up of dual clouds for effective outsourcing of understanding furthermore to arbitrary computations towards an untrustworthy commodity cloud. With the introduction of cloud-computing, efficient secure data deduplication has attracted much concentration in recent occasions from research community. Data deduplication may well be a committed data compression technique that's generally introduced for eliminating duplicate copies of repeating storage data. Different to established systems, private cloud is supplied as being a proxy towards permitting data owner to securely execute duplicate check by differential legal rights and thus this architecture is useful and offers attracted much consideration from researchers.   Inside our work we solve impracticality of deduplication by differential legal rights within cloud-computing, we create a hybrid cloud structural design made up of everybody cloud and cloud

Spring inter monsoon algal blooms in the Eastern Arabian sea: Shallow marine encounter off Karwar and Kumbla Coast using a Hyperspectral radiometer

We encountered the presence of algal blooms in the shallow coastal waters; typical of case II conditions off Karwar (Karnataka) and Kumbla (Kerala), eastern Arabian Sea during the Inter Monsoon. The algal blooms are Trichodesmium species and appear in shades of brown strands and tufts representing T. Erythraeum. Sites of the algal blooms depict a high spectrophotometric surface chlorophyll-a value ranging from 32- 39 mgm-3 and sea surface area surrounding the bloom sites depict lower values of chlorophyll-a (1-3 mgm-3). In-situ Hyperspectral radiometer measurements depict the existence of Chlorophyll Maxima at various depths (3.0-37.31 ug/l) representing the blooms along with their surface appearance. Contrary to the Karwar blooms that are dense, the blooms at Kumbla were dispersed and scantly distributed on the surface waters. Our sea-truth data on mean Sea Surface Temperature of Karwar (30.61 °C) that simulates the Kumbla (30.34 °C) scenario and the mean salinity of Kumbla was 35.86psu, and that of Karwar that is slightly elevated (35.40psu), suggests that SST and salinity probably do not either directly enhance or provide an environment for the eterioration of algal blooms

Design of e-shoe for Visually Impaired by Using RFID Technology

It is a known fact that blind people find it extremely difficult to detect their way through obstacles and stairs. Using a white stick to detect the obstacles had been an age old method, which cannot provide complete solution. In order to overcome this problem, an obstacle detecting shoe is developed. It senses the obstacle through ultrasonic sensors and alerts the user through the message. The ultrasonic waves transmitted are reflected by the obstacles and echo is received by the ultrasonic receiver, where the distance is calculated by using a microprocessor. The RFID system is used to assist the blind people. When the reader located on the shoe moves on to a specific tag, unique tag ID is sent to the reader. While in the case of walking in traffic, RF Link Transmitter/receiver is used for traffic signal detection and for passing instructions to the user through voice messages. A timer is used to detect the wet areas and helps the blind to avoid slippery.