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Filter by:This proposal is a single center preliminary prospective cohort trial that evaluates patients with hyperkyphosis. Participants will receive physical therapy exercises and be followed for the above outcome measures over time. The treatment arm will receive training in one-time training in kyphosis-specific exercises. It is hypothesized that participants receive physical therapy exercises will demonstrate improved outcome measures over time. Also, it is hypothesized that participants who receive kyphosis-specific exercises will demonstrate significantly improved perceived quality-of-life and significantly reduced pain, compared to participants who receive generalized back exercises after 6 months. Also, it is hypothesized that a kyphosis-specific SAQ will demonstrate satisfactory test-retest reliability and concurrent validity.
Background Major spinal surgery tend to be lengthy with an increased risk of hypothermia. A quality improvement project of patients undergoing major spinal surgery showed that 67 % were hypothermic at the beginning of surgery. Several patients expressed a feeling of coldness at the arrival of the operating theatre. Aim To evaluate if Bairhuggers Full Access Underbody blanket can prevent hypothermia at initiation if used as prewarming and intraoperative warming compared to the results from the local quality improvement project. In addition we aim to explore patients´ experiences of comfort in relation to their temperature. Method Temperature of patients undergoing major spinal surgery (n=30) will be assessed at arrival to the theatre, after insertion of bladder catheter, at the start and end of surgery using a bladder temperature. The patients´ experiences of comfort will be evaluated with a 5 point Likert at the arrival to the operating theatre and after ten minutes of active prewarming with Bairhuggers Full Access Underbody blanket. Preoperatively ten randomly chosen patients will be observed and later interviewed in order to obtain further information regarding their experiences of comfort in relation to their temperature. Conclusion and perspectives By increasing the investigators knowledge on Bairhuggers Full Access Underbody blanket and its effects in preventing hypothermia as well as gaining insight to patients´ experiences of comfort in relation to temperature, the investigators anticipate to improve pre-anesthetic care and minimize risk factors associated with hypothermia for patients undergoing major spinal surgery.
The purpose of this study is to determine if droxidopa reduces fall risk by improving gait speed, kyphosis, and functional reach in individuals with Parkinson's disease.
This study is design in a clinical setting for testing whether physical therapy treatment that includes postural awareness exercises for strength flexibility and endurance is improving low back pain and postural behavior. The study will consist of two groups, basic treatment that will get one on one treatment once a month for 3 months and the intervention group, will get an additional group therapy once a week.
We are studying how spine movement changes with age, and when people have vertebral fractures (cracks in the bones of the spine) or hyperkyphosis (a forward stooped posture).
This will be an open label, prospective study to determine the association between specific genotypes, epigenetics and behavioral factors, with the phenotypes, defined by pain perception, postoperative pain, analgesic and side effect responses to perioperative opioids, chronic postoperative pain and gene expression in adolescents following major spine surgery.
To investigate whether implantation of cobalt alloy pedicle screws is effective in treating severe kyphosis deformity in spinal tuberculosis, and to determine the factors that are likely to have influenced the curative effects.
The objective of this investigation is to confirm the results obtained in a pilot study showing that certain radiological parameters based on computed tomography (CT) scans seem to reliably detect posterior ligament complex (PLC) injury without the need for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Are the KypDisT and conventional C7WD are practical, valid, reliable, and effectiveness of the tools to discriminate the functional ability impairments relating to kyphosis when compare with gold standard (Cobb's method), and compare among physical therapy, VHS and caregiver?
The surgical management of spinal deformities especially in adults is complex. The conventional surgical treatment of these deformations is a scope arthrodesis of the spine. The quality of the result depends on many variables such as the choice of the vertebrae to fuse, location and the number of implants, the type of material used or the type of correction maneuver used. All these variables affect the surgical outcome and may be involved as a modifiable risk factor for possible postoperative complications. The study proposes to focus on the junctional kyphosis postoperative proximal (CJP or Proximal Junctional Kyphosis: PJK). Their prevalence in adults ranges from 20% to 43% depending on the series. The radiographic definition of CJP's kyphosis with an angle> 10 ° measured from the lower plate of the proximal instrumented vertebra to the upper plate of the adjacent vertebra proximal not instrumented; this measure is being compared to the pre operative data. Either the CJP are asymptomatic and do not require revision surgery either they are and thereby generate a revision surgery. Several factors may potentially influence the development of the CJP. Among them, age, preoperative comorbidities, obesity, osteoporosis, lesions of the posterior elements, hybrid instrumentation, correction forces applied during surgery, sagittal balance pre and post operative degeneration joint capsules, etc. There are few studies on the identification and analysis of these risk factors; literature gives only single-center studies on small samples with a single surgical procedure. Review articles describe the incidence and risk factors of the CJP. However, the pathophysiological mechanisms of the CJP are still controversial to this day. The aim of this study is to determine the incidence of occurrence of postoperative kyphosis proximal junctional and identify risk factors for developing this major complication of a multicenter population of scoliosis operated an extensive fusion.