ABSTRACT BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Osteoarthritis is an inflammatory and degenerative joint disease, causing pain, musculoskeletal disorders and impact on functionality, daily life activities and quality of life.The action of physical agents by means of deep heating seems to be an alternative to treat such disease.This study aimed at verifying the

The restoration of an intact epidermal barrier after wound injury is the culmination of a here highly complex and exquisitely regulated physiological process involving multiple cells and tissues, overlapping dynamic events and protein synthesis and regulation.Central to this process is the cytoskeleton, a system of intracellular proteins that are i

This study investigated if different response formats (test methods) measure reading comprehension of kaiser copy stands expository text differently.The study was conducted with 48 semester 6 TESL students at a university in Selangor, Malaysia.These students received an expository passage having descriptive rhetorical structure followed by three re