Background and Objectives: Chronic low back pain, frequently attributed to Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction (SIJD), remains a prevalent concern in orthopedic and physiotherapy arenas. Despite the recognition of motor control exercises (MCEs) and balance...
Circulating fatty acid composition is assumed to play an important role in metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) pathogenesis. This study aimed to investigate the association between the overall balance of serum fatty acid comp...
The present study investigated the potential of polydatin to protect against liver injury and the mitochondrial dysfunction of weanling piglets suffering from intra-uterine growth retardation (IUGR). Thirty-six normal birth weight weanling piglets an...
Objective: This study aims to analyze relationships between body composition, biochemical parameters, and cardiac function in young adults to identify mechanisms of cardiac dysfunction in obesity. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study of 60 young...
16 December 2020
Background: Aquatic physiotherapy has been shown to be effective in developing balance, strength, and functional reach over time. When dealing with immediate effects, the literature has concentrated more on the body’s physiological response to...
Disruptions of the Treg/Th17 cell balance and gut barrier function are associated with endothelial dysfunction. Dieckol (DK) obtained from Ecklonia cava and E. cava extract (ECE) decreases blood pressure by reducing inflammation; however, it has not...
Exercise induces acute hepatic dysfunction and inflammation, a condition with currently limited treatment modalities. Dihydromyricetin (DHM) may protect the liver, but its role in exercise-related hepatic dysfunction and inflammation remains to be el...
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative pathology classified as a movement disorder. Physical exercise within a physiotherapy program is an important element to improve postural stability, balance and mobility in order to reduce falls i...
Background: Intestinal epithelial barrier dysfunction, a major consequence of inflammatory and oxidative stress, contributes to enteric disorder progression. Salvianolic acid B (SAB), a prominent water-soluble phenolic compound in Salvia miltiorrhiza...
Endothelial dysfunction underlies many cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. Lysosomal storage disorders, particularly sphingolipidoses, cause intracellular accumulation of specific sphingolipids due to inherited enzyme defects. This review focuses...
3 November 2022
Background: Proper body balance is maintained by both sensory, i.e., vision, hearing, vestibular, and proprioception, and motor nervous systems. Visual control facilitates balance both in a static position, as well as during movement. Visual dysfunct...
The maintenance and improvement of balance and walking function in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) is essential. Toe dysfunction in patients with PD is related to balance and walking. Recently, insoles have been developed to improve toe...
This study aimed to determine the most sensitive objective measures of balance dysfunction that differ between people with Parkinson’s Disease (PD) and healthy controls. One-hundred and forty-four people with PD and 79 age-matched healthy contr...
There have been suggestions that Long COVID might be purely functional (meaning psychological) in origin. Labelling patients with neurological dysfunction in Long COVID as having functional neurological disorder (FND) in the absence of proper testing...
As a predominately young, physically active, and generally healthy population, service members (SMs) with vestibular dysfunction (VD) following a TBI may not be accurately represented by the current civilian reference ranges on assessments of VD. Thi...
Background/Objectives: Sports-related concussions can result in prolonged symptoms and deficiencies in stability and balance. Effective and standardized rehabilitation protocols remain limited. This case report introduces a novel balance training pro...
Background/Objectives: Vestibular disorders can have functional consequences for children, including balance and gross motor delays, academic difficulties and behavioral manifestations; however, they are frequently undiagnosed in children. The purpos...
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a global public health problem that causes liver-related morbidity and mortality. It is also an independent risk factor for non-communicable diseases. In 2020, a proposal was made to refer to it as “...
Background: Most studies have primarily focused on assessing the association between diet or exercise patterns and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD). This study adopted a more comprehensive approach by introducing the o...
Older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) are at an increased risk for falls and fall-related injuries. It is unclear whether current balance rehabilitation techniques largely developed in cognitively intact populations would be successful in...
Previous studies have found that hypomagnetic field (HMF) exposure impairs cognition behaviors in animals; however, the underlying neural mechanisms of cognitive dysfunction are unclear. The hippocampus plays important roles in magnetoreception, memo...
Background: Vestibular symptoms and objective vestibular dysfunction have been reported in patients with autoimmune and rheumatologic diseases, but available evidence remains fragmented and methodologically heterogeneous. Previous studies have often...
Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) have a high incidence of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction (LVDD), which increases the risk of heart failure and mortality. We assessed fluid overload as an independent risk factor for LVDD in patients...
Chronic nasopharyngeal inflammation represents a state of persistent mucosal immune dysregulation within the nasopharynx, a key inductive site of upper airway immunity. In this review, we propose a hypothesis-generating conceptual framework in which...
Background/Objectives: This study aimed to examine the associations between diet-related quality of life (DRQOL) and psychological distress, autonomic dysfunction, and migraine in patients with dizziness and balance disorders. Methods: In this retros...
The healthy function of the vestibular system (VS) is of vital importance for individuals to carry out their daily activities independently and safely. This study carries out Tsallis entropy (TE)-based analysis on insole force sensor data in order to...
Cholesterol accumulation plays a significant role in the pathogenesis of metabolic-dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), yet changes in cholesterol homeostasis in MASLD remain insufficiently investigated. This study aimed to examine...
Bioactive compounds (BCs) are known to exhibit antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and anti-cancer properties by regulating the cellular redox balance and histone acetylation state. BCs can control chronic oxidative states caused by dietary stress, i.e.,...
Aging is a physiological process that generates progressive decline in many cellular functions. There are many theories of aging, and one of great importance in recent years is the mitochondrial theory of aging, in which mitochondrial dysfunction tha...
Increasing evidence links metabolic disorders with neurodegenerative processes including Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Late AD is associated with amyloid (Aβ) plaque accumulation, neuroinflammation, and central insulin resistance. Here, a humanized AD mo...
(1) Background: Glucuronolactone (GLU) is a glucose metabolite with antioxidant activity. At present, the exact role of it in regulating the intestinal health of piglets under weaning stress is not clear. The purpose of this study is to investigate t...
Background/Objectives: Inappropriate posture, overweight, and physical inactivity are common causes of pathologies on muscles, ligaments, joints, and bone structures, which could negatively impact the quality of present and future life. The challenge...
Kohonen neural network (KNN) was used to investigate the effects of the visual, proprioceptive and vestibular systems using the sway information in the mediolateral (ML) and anterior-posterior (AP) directions, obtained from an inertial measurement un...
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major neurological condition affecting millions of individuals each year. Mild TBI (mTBI) manifests differently, with some individuals experiencing persistent, debilitating symptoms while others recover more rapidly....
Mitochondrial transcription factor A (TFAM) is essential for mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) maintenance and function, but its role in glioblastoma (GBM) remains largely unexplored. Analysis of patient astrocytomas and TCGA datasets has revealed progressiv...
Background/Objectives: Older adults with mild cognitive impairment often exhibit reduced postural control and increased fall risk. As fall-related injuries consume substantial healthcare resources, the development of fall-preventive interventions is...
Liver transplantation (LT) is the definitive treatment for patients with end-stage liver disease. Since its inception in the 1960s, transplant medicine has undergone substantial advances in surgical technique, immunosuppression, organ preservation, a...
Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a complex autoimmune connective tissue disease characterized by immune dysregulation, microvascular damage, and progressive fibrosis affecting multiple organs. While cardiopulmonary, renal, and gastrointestinal manifestati...
Background and Objectives: Idiopathic scoliosis (IS) has been conceptualized as a structural spinal deformity; emerging evidence suggests that postural control and vestibular mechanisms may contribute to curve development and functional severity. Thi...
18 October 2016
We are glad to introduce the third Journal Club. The third edition is focused on several relevant studies published in the last years in the field of Gait and Posture, chosen by our Editorial Board members. We hope to stimulate your curiosity in this...
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the global nutrition report shows that whilst part of the world’s population starves, the other part suffers from obesity and associated complications. A balanced diet counterparts these extreme...
Background: ELAFIN (peptidase inhibitor 3, PI3) is an endogenous inhibitor of neutrophil elastase and proteinase 3, but its circulating profile in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and cardiovascular disease remains poorly characterized. We investigate...
Chronic inflammation is increasingly recognized as a critical factor in female reproductive health; influencing natural conception and the outcomes of assisted reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization (IVF). An essential component of...
The aim of this systematic review with meta-analysis was to determine differences in cardiovascular autonomic parameters between patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) and healthy controls (HCs). Two reviewers searched four electronic databases, namely...
Oral inflammatory diseases (OIDs) include many common diseases such as periodontitis and pulpitis. The causes of OIDs consist microorganism, trauma, occlusal factors, autoimmune dis-eases and radiation therapy. When treated unproperly, such diseases...
Introduction: Epidemiological studies have suggested an increased vascular risk in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). There is increasing evidence of the beneficial effects of GLP-1 agonists (GLP-1a) in preventing vascular complications and slowi...
Background/Objectives: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is traditionally classified as a neurodevelopmental condition, whereas neurodegenerative diseases are defined by progressive neuronal decline in later life. This separation has shaped research and...
People with diabetic foot frequently exhibit gait and balance dysfunction. Recent advances in wearable inertial measurement units (IMUs) enable to assess some of the gait and balance dysfunction associated with diabetic foot (i.e., digital biomarkers...
Spinal cord injury (SCI) results in a high prevalence of neurogenic obesity and metabolic dysfunction. The increased risk for neurogenic obesity and metabolic dysfunction is mainly due to the loss of energy balance because of significantly reduced en...
A balanced excitatory/inhibitory (E/I) tone is crucial for proper brain function, and disruptions can lead to neurological disorders. This review explores the role of astrocytes in maintaining a balanced E/I tone in the brain, which is crucial for pr...
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