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Filter by:The goal of the study is to determine whether a brief, therapeutic interview can help patients improve their pain and health by addressing psychological issues that are known to drive chronic musculoskeletal pain. This randomized, controlled trial tests the efficacy of a brief, one-session therapeutic interview for patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain and histories of childhood adversity. Adults with chronic musculoskeletal pain will be randomized to either a therapeutic interview condition or a waitlist control condition. The therapeutic interview will be 90-minute session during which participants will be encouraged to disclose stressful experiences, express important emotions, and identify connections between their life stress and their pain, which we hope will increase their psychological attributions for pain and reduce their pain, interpersonal problems, and psychological distress. The study will compare the therapeutic interview condition to a delayed interview condition and will follow patients for 6 weeks to identify changes in response to the interview. Participants in the therapeutic interview condition are expected to show more improvement on pain severity, pain interference, psychological distress, interpersonal function, and psychological attitudes toward pain at follow-up, relative to participants in the delayed interview condition.
The study will be described the development and implementation of the Clinical pathway (CPW) for acupuncture treatment in the management of patients with some chronic pain conditions. The effectiveness of this CPW will be explored in this study through retrospective analysis of clinical outcomes after administration of acupuncture treatment summarised in the guidelines.
Musculoskeletal injuries amongst surgeons are prevalent. This project will determine whether Robotic-assisted Laparoscopic surgery (RALS) offers superior benefits to surgeon's musculoskeletal health than standard laparoscopic surgery (LS), by identifying the comparative changes in muscle fatigue during RALS Vs LS surgical procedures, and additionally identify any cognitive effects of this. The Study if successful, could help reduce injury rates in surgeons.
Covid-19 outbreak and lockdown measures raised significant concerns over clinical management of chronic pain patients around the world. Patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMSP) are at high risk of physical disability, psychological distress, and poor quality of life. Analgesic medications were main management during lockdown, but opioid-related concerns have prompted to find immediate alternatives. Present study was undertaken to determine whether patients randomized to tele-yoga therapy would experience less pain, disability and improved global health, adherence and satisfaction, compared with patients assigned to usual care.
The aim of this pilot study is to conduct an unblinded pilot randomized clinical study on the effectiveness and tolerability of auricular semi-permanent (ASP) vs intradermal (long), and pyonex needles in Battlefield Acupuncture (BFA) for the treatment of pain.
The study is tested the idea of two forms of musculoskeletal pain prophylaxis (chair massage and an original set of exercises) among musicians. The hypothesis of the study was that massage and exercises could be helpful for musicians to avoid pain conected with playing musical instrument.
Epidemiology, a word derived from the Greek epi (on) demos (people), is a scientific discipline in the area of medicine that studies the distribution, frequency and determining factors of chemical diseases in defined human populations. It is the method of problem solving research used by epidemiologists, scientists, statisticians, doctors, and other health professionals to get to the root of health problems in a community. Beyond the important role of descriptive epidemiology in generating etiological hypotheses, it also provides a description of the frequency and / or patterns of disease occurrence at the individual or social level. In the field of medicine and physiotherapy, epidemiological studies of musculoskeletal injuries acquire great relevance considering that they are the main cause of disability, increasing their prevalence year after year and carrying high economic and social costs. Worldwide, the Epidemiology of musculoskeletal pathologies has been reported in both the general population and specific populations. Despite the fact that kinesiology has been an established profession in Argentina since the 1940s, there is an evident lack of scientific information on this discipline. Currently, epidemiological reports of published musculoskeletal pathologies are scarce in our country. To our knowledge, the characteristics of the population of patients with musculoskeletal injuries who attend a private sports kinesiology office are not known. A study of these characteristics could help to better understand this population, improving routine clinical practice, as well as providing a database for the development of future scientific studies. For this reason, the main objective of this study is to describe the characteristics of the patients who come to an external kinesiology office at a private institution in Argentina. The secondary objective is to evaluate the relationship between the body mass index (BMI) and the affected body regions.
The experimental study compares three virtual human interviews of patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain: Emotional disclosure and brain, emotional disclosure only, basic information control. Effects on attitudes and clinical outcomes at 1-month follow-up are assessed.
The study aims to evaluate the working environments of individuals working from home during the covid-19 outbreak and the effect of the working environments on their musculoskeletal system.
Chronic pain is commonly defined as any pain which lasts more than 12 weeks. Chronic non-specific neck pain (CNSNP) has no specific underlying disease causing the pain. There are neurophysiological factors that may modulate pain response and perception in the central nervous system, producing sensory changes such as the presence of temporal summation (TS) and pressure, cold or heat hyperalgesia. TS describes the progressive increase in reported pain intensity as a function of repeated noxious stimulation (e.g. thermal, electrical or mechanical). TS and hyperalgesia are measured through quantitative sensory tests (QST) where pain pressure thresholds (PPT) are measured with an algometer. The current evidence show that PPTs are significantly lower compared to healthy subjects and the association between PPTs, pain intensity and disability are inconsistent. Further, there are psychosocial factors (catastrophizing, kinesiophobia, stress…) that may influence the pain experience. This psychosocial factors associated with chronic pain are not systematically collected in the QST literature complicating the interpretation of data. The objectives of this study are 1) to determine disability, sensory (TS and PPTs) and psychosocial changes (kinesiophobia, catastrophizing, sleep quality, life quality, stress and anxiety) in the natural evolution or in the result of physiotherapy treatment in CNSNP individuals, 2) to study the correlations between disability, psychosocial and sensory factors and 3) to observe if there is a homogeneity between the subjects.