Illumination was provided by an electric bulb positioned directly beneath the film.
If the stone is small, submersion in a water bath is not necessary; shock waves are transmitted through the skin via a water-filled rubber bulb positioned over the stone site.
The shorter two-bulb sensor strip was secured with a medical adhesive (Stomahesive, Convatec, St. Laurent, Quebec) to the roof of the mouth in midline, with the anterior bulb positioned immediately behind the upper teeth.
Three dimmable 50-watt halogen bulbs positioned outside the inner circle of the transparent inner wall provided a light intensity of 800 lux in the light compartment (the section made of transparent PVC) and a light intensity of about 5 lux in the dark compartment (the section made of black PVC).
Increasingly brachycephalic dogs were found a have a more ventrally rotated cerebral axis and a more ventrally shifted olfactory bulb position.
All measures were calculated separately for the anterior and posterior pressure bulb positions.
His isometric pressure measures increased rapidly, achieving a 50% increase versus baseline by the 11th session for the anterior bulb position and a 38% increase for the posterior bulb position in the same time frame.
Small, but steady and gradual increases were observed, with a net change of approximately 10 kPa in peak values for the anterior bulb position and 20 kPa for the posterior bulb position.
Accuracy, represented relative to isometric strength, showed a trend towards improvement for both bulb positions across the course of treatment.
Case A began his treatment with isometric strength values that were close to the normative range reported for healthy, older males for the anterior bulb position (Nicosia et al 2000), namely 48 ± 6 KPa, and within the normative reported range for the posterior bulb position, ie, 53 ± 5 KPa.
The experimental treatment protocol involved the execution of ten sets of 6 reiterated tongue-to-palate presses per session, half in the anterior and half in the posterior bulb position.
