Introduction: Work - related injuries are of major public health importance because they have severe negative economic and social impacts to individuals, families, and a country’s economy as a whole. South Africa is a ...

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 ...

Obesity is an emerging problem in South Africa, particularly in women for whom prevalence rates well above 40% have been reported. Parallel to this health problem, South Africa continues to experience relatively high poverty ...

This study focuses on the South African commercial fuel industry, specifically the Small, Medium and Micro Enterprise (SMME) oil companies supplying diesel to commercial users. The supply and distribution of diesel is ...

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 ...

A new theory explains why dinosaurs, pterosaurs and large avian species like Hesperornis became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous while mammals, smaller Cretaceous birds, crocodiles, chelonians and saurians survived ...

Although the importance of Attachment in the normal development of a child has repeatedly been shown (Bowlby, 1961; 1979) there is a limited amount of research into its relationships with the usage of defense mechanisms ...