Sujata Kumari

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The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury occurs when the foot is firmly planted and leg sustains direct force, either forward or backward. If the force is forward, the ACL suffers the impact from the force, it is most commonly injured ligament in the knee, commonly occurring in football, soccer and basketball players. Treatment consist of the “RICE” therapy, which includes Rest, Ice, Compression of the affected knee and Elevation of the affected lower extremity. Keywords: ACL, MRI, Injury

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Schizophrenia is one of the most devastating psychiatric disorders that affects about 1% of the world population with respective age group among 15-35years. The disorder characterized by fundamental disturbances in thinking, perception, emotions and other features of behavior. Individuals with schizophrenia require long-term integrated treatment with pharmacological and other interventions. For the majority of client, the most effective treatment appears to be a combination of psychotropic medication and psychosocial therapy.   Keywords: Paranoid schizophrenia, Schizophrenia.

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Background: Blood pressure(BP) measurement is a basic clinical procedure and perhaps the most frequently performed clinical procedure in any health care setting, it strongly depends both on the number of measurements and the body position during the procedure. Many important therapeutic decisions rely on the accuracy of assessment ,Unfortunately , blood pressure measurement is one of the most inaccurately performed procedure done by healthcare provider. Inspire of studies having shown that many errors are made while recording BP, crucial decisions about treatment are made based on these inaccurate measurements. Efforts have continuously been made to standardize the procedure, but remain difficult to reach a consensus among different official guidelines for BP measurement Statement of Problem: A comparative study on the effect of cross legged sitting with flat feet sitting position on blood pressure reading among normotensive young adults in selected college, Guwahati, Assam. Setting: Army Institute of Nursing ,C/O- 151 Base Hospital, Basistha, Guwahati, Assam. Design: Descriptive comparative design. Materials and Methods: A descriptive comparative design was adopted for the study ,sixty normotensive young adults were selected using purposive sampling technique from the selected college of Guwahati, Assam. The data was collected by a questionnaire and blood pressure measurements were documented.Automated sphygmomanometer (OMRON HEM -8712 ,SERIAL NO 20190604417VG). The measurement was taken 5 minutes elapse before the first reading and then one minute gap between next three readings in flat feet and cross legs at knee level. The data were analysed using percentage, frequency, mean, SD Statistical significance was set at p

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