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Filter by:This study was aimed to evaluate the patients undergoing lung transplantation under the International Classification of Functionality, Disability and Health (ICF) and to examine the relationships between the age at which lung transplant recipients were transplanted and recipients' comorbidity levels and body structure and functions, activity and participation level.
Objectives: To analyse the effects of sciatic neural mobilisation, in combination to the treatment of the surrounding structures, on pain and disability. Secondly, to investigate baseline characteristics that may be associated with improvements in pain and lumbar disability. Methods: Twenty-eight patients with a clinical diagnosis of sciatica were treated with neural mobilization, joint mobilisation and soft tissue techniques. Pain intensity and lumbar disability were assessed at baseline and after treatment using a Numerical Rating Scale (0-10) and the Oswestry Disability Index (0-100), respectively. The pre- and post-intervention data were compared.
The overall objective of this project is to evaluate and validate the accuracy and usability of a deployed beta sensor-based system. This is a cross-sectional validation study of 100 apparently health community dwelling adults aged 60+ years. Participants will perform standardized lifestyle, exercise and sedentary type physical activities in a clinic laboratory and home setting.
Background Women with rare diseases resulting in motor disabilities wishing to become mother face a major challenge. The investigators hypothesize that provided with adequate support, they are able to achieve a successful pregnancy and to offer their child a safe family environment. Methods To test this hypothesis, the investigators shall conduct a prospective observational prospective survey of a consecutive series of volunteer pregnant women or mothers of children less than 14 months, with motor impairment, participating in a program of parenting support developed in our institution. Primary outcome: social environment, child development, mother-infant attachment, mother- infant interactions Secondary outcome: social and demographic characteristics, severity of motor impairment, associated impairment, perinatal morbidity for the mother and the infant (composite indicator), emotional status, and the needs expressed by women regarding the level of medical or social care. Analysis The investigators shall describe the distribution of the primary outcome measurements in the subgroup of women with motor impairment related to a rare disease. The investigators shall compare this distribution to the expected distribution in the general population, and to that observed in women with motor impairment unrelated to a rare disease. The investigators shall also study primary outcome measurements as a function of the severity of maternal disability, of the mother's social characteristics and emotional status. The investigators shall also describe the distribution the distribution of perinatal morbidity globally, and as a function of the potential explanatory variables mentioned above. The investigators shall also report on the opinion of women regarding the support they were offered so far, and the support they declare they should benefit from.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether the use of 'patient journey' model in internet-based counseling of a person with hearing impairment is a feasible approach in management of emotional and social consequences, anxiety and depression, readiness to change and acceptance of hearing loss.
RATIONALE: Monoclonal antibodies, such as bevacizumab, can block tumor growth in different ways. Some block the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread. Others find tumor cells and help kill them or carry tumor-killing substances to them. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as lomustine, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. It is not yet known which regimen of bevacizumab given together with lomustine is most effective in treating patients with glioblastoma multiforme in first recurrence. PURPOSE: The primary objective of this study is to investigate whether the addition of bevacizumab to lomustine improves overall survival (OS) in patients with recurrent glioblastoma compared to treatment with lomustine alone.
Leprosy is an infectious disease of slow evolution, manifested primarily by signs and symptoms dermatoneurological with skin lesions and peripheral nerve, especially in the eyes, hands and feet. The prevention of disability is essential for the control of complications. Objective: To evaluate the physical and functional status of hands, feet and eyes, for the appearance and evolution of sensory and motor deficiencies and classification of disability (WHO) of a group of leprosy patients to compare and monitor the result treatment on the progression of neuropathy and recurrence of reactions. Methodology: We performed initial physical therapy evaluation and final, after 12 months. We conducted a clinical trial of a series of 26 cases evaluated with newly diagnosed leprosy, treated by standard medication. There were used methods of qualitative and quantitative. An illustrated manual of guidelines was especially developed for this study.
The annual frequency of injury among dancers has been reported to range between 23-84% while as many as 95% of professional dancers have ongoing pain. The discrepancy between the number of reported injuries and the amount of pain reported at any given time could be related to the definition of injury, or how dancers' themselves perceive injury with respect to pain and activity limitation thresholds. For many reasons, dancers may be dancing through or past what health care providers may conceive as injury. This can put them at risk of further or chronic injury. The purpose of this study is to understand at which point pain limits a dancer's ability to continue to perform and whether this is influenced by available medical services, a supportive dance environment, or other factors. In addition, the issue of non-reporting of injuries will be studied. This is very important as this will affect all measures of injury frequency and risk for dancers.