Overuse tendinopathy is problematic to manage clinically. People of different ages with tendons under diverse loads present with varying degrees of pain, irritability, and capacity to function. Recovery is similarly variable; some tendons recover with simple interventions, some remain resistant to all treatments. The pathology of tendinopathy has been described as degenerative or failed healing. Neither of these descriptions fully explains the heterogeneity of presentation. This review proposes, and provides evidence for, a continuum of pathology. This model of pathology allows rational placement of treatments along the continuum. A new model of tendinopathy and thoughtful treatment implementation may improve outcomes for those with tendinopathy. This model is presented for evaluation by clinicians and researchers.

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Is tendon pathology a continuum? A pathology model to explain the clinical presentation of load-induced tendinopathy

Since its coming of age in the mid 1960s, continuum biomechanics has contributed much to our understanding of human health as well as to disease, injury, and their treatment. Nevertheless, biomechanics has yet to reach its full potential as a consistent contributor to the improvement of health–care delivery. Because of the inherent complexities of the microstructure and biomechanical behaviour of biological cells and tissues, there is a need for new theoretical frameworks to guide the design and interpretation of new classes of experiments. Because of continued advances in experimental technology, and the associated rapid increase in information on molecular and cellular contributions to behaviour at tissue and organ levels, there is a pressing need for mathematical models to synthesize and predict observations across multiple length– and time–scales. And because of the complex geometries and loading conditions, there is a need for new computational approaches to solve the boundaryand initial–value problems of clinical, industrial, and academic importance. Clearly, much remains to be done. The purpose of this paper is twofold: to review a few of the many achievements in the biomechanics of soft tissues and the tools that allowed them, but, more importantly, to identify some of the open problems that merit increased attention from those in applied mechanics, biomechanics, mathematics and mechanobiology.

Review Paper: Continuum biomechanics of soft biological tissues

A mobile entertainment and communication device in a palm-held size housing has a cellular or satellite telephone capable of wireless communication with the Internet and one or more replaceable memory card sockets for receiving a blank memory card for recording data directly from the Internet and, in particular, musical performances that then can be selectively reproduced by the device for the enjoyment of the user, including both audio and visual recordings and reproductions. The device also includes a camera and microphone for recording images and sound within the range of the device that can be wirelessly transmitted, either selectively or automatically to a remote telephone. Further, the device includes sensors for sensing unusual conditions that may also be transmitted to a remote telephone, together with the location of the device as determined by a GPS section of the device.

Mobile Entertainment and Communication Device

A method is provided for modifying an image. The method comprises displaying an image, the image comprising a portion of an object; and determining if an edge of the object is in a location within the portion. The method further comprises detecting movement, in a member direction, of an operating member with respect to the edge. The method still further comprises moving, if the edge is not in the location, the object in an object direction corresponding to the detected movement; and modifying, if the edge is in the location, the image in response to the detected movement, the modified image comprising the edge in the location.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program

A location tagged data provision and display system. A personal communication device (PCD) with electromagnetic communication capability has a GPS receiver and a display. The 10 PCD requests maps and location tagged data from data providers and other for display on the PCD. The data providers respond to requests by using searching and sorting schemes to interrogate data bases and then automatically transmitting data responsive to the requests to the requesting PCD.

Personal communication system to send and receive voice data positioning information

A handy type video telephone equipment which permits a user to transmit and receive pictures and speech with a casing held in one hand. A speaker is arranged at the upper end part of the front of the casing which is thin and vertically long, while a microphone is arranged at the lower end part thereof. A display panel and a control panel are interposed between the speaker and the microphone. A camera is mounted on the casing so as to be capable of altering its angle. The speaker is detachably mounted, and it is usable as an earphone when detached. The user's movements are not hampered during the transmission and reception, and the equipment can assume various communication or service attitudes conforming to the contents of information for the communications.

Video telephone equipment

Disclosed are method and system for generating history of behavior that is capable of simplifying input of a behavior content of a human behavior pattern determined from data measured by a sensor. A computer obtains biological information measured by a sensor which is mounted to a person and accumulates the biological information, obtains motion frequencies from the accumulated biological information, obtains time-series change points of the motion frequencies, extracts a period between the change points as a scene which is a period of being in the state of an identical motion, compares the motion frequencies with a preset condition for each extracted scene and identifies the action contents in the scene, estimates the behavior content performed by the person in the scene on the basis of the appearance sequence of the action contents, and generates the history of the behaviors on the basis of the estimated behavior contents.

Method and system for generating history of behavior

A safety check system of the invention is equipped with a safety detection device attached to a body of a checked person, a server for accumulating various pieces of information, and a terminal of a checker for executing a safety check of the checked person, wherein the detection device is equipped with a first radio communication mechanism for making a radio communication with the server, a vital signal detection mechanism for detecting a vital signal of the checked person, and a first control mechanism for creating safety information of the checked person; and the server is equipped with a second radio communication mechanism for making a radio communication with the detection device, a detection history memory mechanism for memorizing a detection history of the checked person, and a second control mechanism for sending the detection history of the checked person in the detection history memory mechanism to the terminal.

Safety check system, method, and program, and memory medium for memorizing program therefor

The precision of measuring biometric information is enhanced while suppressing the consumption of a battery in a sensor node. In a method of measuring the biometric information in a sensor node including a controller for driving a sensor to measure biometric information, the controller supplies power from a battery to an acceleration sensor for detecting the movement of a living body to detect the movement of the living body, the controller determines whether or not measurement by a pulsebeat sensor is possible based on the detected movement of the living body (P 330 ), and shuts off power to the acceleration sensor having a power consumption lower than that of the pulsebeat sensor when the determination results show that measurement is possible, and thereafter supplying power to the pulsebeat sensor having a power consumption larger than that of the acceleration sensor to measure the biometric information (P 340 ).

Controller for senor node, measurement method for biometric information and its software

An ultra-small, low-power sensor-net module called ZN1 is developed. ZN1 integrates MCU, ZigBee RF into an ultra-small 15 -- 15-mm module with an ultra-low standby current less than 1 μA. The and highly reliable operation for more than 15 years of the ZN1 enable low-cost practical application-specific sensor nodes for HVAC, structure monitoring, office management, security, medicine, and healthcare. We describe architecture and technologies for developing the ZN1 module. Moreover, we demonstrate two applications that we developed simultaneously: food sanitation and home healthcare. We also show results of the ZN1 module evaluation and discuss reliability of the ZN1.

Hiroyuki Kuriyama

Papers

Video telephone equipment

Method and system for generating history of behavior

Safety check system, method, and program, and memory medium for memorizing program therefor

Controller for senor node, measurement method for biometric information and its software

A 15 -- 15 mm, 1 μA, reliable sensor-net module: enabling application-specific nodes