Headache is a common complaint in society and is related to personal, biomechanical and socioeconomic circumstances. In current literature trigger-points (TrPs) in the majority of the muscles of the face and neck contributing ...

Introduction: Although socioeconomic inequality in health and mortality is currently on the top of the epidemiologic debate, studies however on the subject among adult population in Africa has been hampered due to the long ...

The Association between Trunk Muscle Endurance and Lumbar-Pelvic Instability in Adolescent Low Back Pain Françoise Lewis Supervisors: Wendy-Anne Wood, Benita Naude. Low back pain (LBP) is a common cause of discomfort ...

While osteoporosis is a major public health concern in the developed world, little research regarding factors influencing bone mineral accrual in children has been conducted in developing countries. South Africa is of ...

The underlying mechanism and determinants of inhibitor formation in approximately 30% haemophilia A and 5% haemophilia B patients are not fully understood. A large amount of the data on immune responses against FVIII and ...

Molecular nitrogen is a highly abundant element in the atmosphere; it is stable and not very reactive. Anthropogenic activities have caused greater concentrations of nitrogen-containing compounds that are highly reactive ...

Attachment theory has implications for relational functioning across the lifespan. The attachment experience of institutionalised children in South Africa is understudied. Using a psychoanalytic p ...

Process synthesis deals with the development of synthesis tools to help improve process efficiencies, energy efficiency, capital and operating expenses for the process industries. In recent years, researchers have focused ...

The process of diffusion being assumed to result simply in an interchange of atoms, an estimate is made of the internal strains produced by precipitation. According to the dislocation theory these strains are responsible ...