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Filter by:Complete cytoreductive surgery (CCRS) is an extensive, and potentially curative, procedure utilised for peritoneal malignancies including Pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP). This study aims to provide a nuanced understanding of the lived experience of recovery following CCRS over time, with the view to inform future supportive measures for CCRS patients in particular. This study also provides the opportunity to longitudinally examine patient perceptions of 'recovery' in the context of major illness and/or treatment; i.e. what it is to experience recovery, what is important during recovery, perhaps how this changes over time, and what it is to be 'recovered', if this is possible. A greater understanding of the term may have implications in how it is used, or how patients following major illness are approached by healthcare professionals. Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) will be utilised as the guiding methodology in order to answer the study objectives. Potential participants will be approached by the clinical nurse specialist (CNS) involved in the patient's care, and will be offered a 'research study pack', containing a participant information sheet (PIS). A maximum of ten consenting participants will be interviewed on up to six occasions (although only five are planned) across a timeframe of little more than a year, both before and after their surgery. Interviews may take place face-to-face, or via telephone. Data analysis will involve a cyclical process of identifying patterns within the interview transcripts of each participant at each time point, across time points, and between participants. This design will provide an effective means of gathering and analysing rich data from each participant, thus affording a comprehensive insight into the meanings that participants attribute over time to their recovery following CCRS. This study has been devised in partial fulfilment of a doctorate degree at the University of Southampton.
Currently, there is evidence that structured care within the healthcare system increases the conditions for good care and better recovery. We want to investigate whether a new care concept (gero-ERAT) that combines two variants of structured care can improve the recovery of elderly patients affected by a physical trauma. Our hope is that the project will reduce the complications, short care times, fewer re-admissions and that more patients can return to regular living, which reduces the suffering for the patient and his relatives. In addition to patient benefit, a successful outcome will also result in reduced costs for healthcare and society as a whole. The concept of care is based on an increased patient participation, which is in line with the values of the Västra Götaland region and the Sahlgrenska university hospital Through the PhD project, four studies will be published. A qualitative interview study to investigate patients' experiences of care and recovery after trauma. After that, a prospective cohort survey of two groups is carried out; conventional care and gero-ERAT. Data will begin to be collected in the control group and when the control group is full geroRATAT will be implemented in the care department and we then collect data in the intervention group. Based on collected data, we will publish two additional studies one with a focus on health economics as well as one focusing on care time and recovery based on age and harvest estimation.
The aim of this study is to investigate if the addition of metamizole to the standard post-operative treatment, i.e. paracetamol and ibuprofen, is superior in reducing post-operative pain on day 1 after ambulatory surgery compared to the standard post-operative treatment. Therefore, a mono-center, prospective, double-blind, randomized controlled superiority trail will be designed in order to investigate superiority of metamizole compared to the standard post-operative treatment in patients undergoing arthroscopic shoulder surgery.
In recent years, many studies have shown that prehabilitation based on aerobic training strategies could have a positive effect on the recovery of postoperative functional capacity in patients undergoing lung cancer surgery. Investigators are proposing a prospective randomized controlled trial to compare the impact of a short home-based multimodal prehabilitation strategy to preoperative aerobic training on patients scheduled for video-assisted thorascopic lobectomy for lung cancer. The multimodal prehabilitation strategy includes guided aerobic and resistance exercise, breathing exercises, nutrition supplement and physiology management preoperatively, while the aerobic strategy offers the same aerobic training guidance without the other parts. The prehabilitation lasts 2-3 weeks in our center. Investigators follow-up patients until 30 days after surgery, to investigate whether multimodal prehabilitation strategy differs from aerobic training program in postoperative functional capability improvement, health-related quality of life scorings, incidence of postoperative complications and other outcomes.
REMEDRUGBY's objective is to strengthen the capacity of users to interact with others in an assertive way and to fight against stigma. It proposes to specifically target the processes of "social cognition". "Social cognition" brings together the mental mechanisms that allow everyone to decipher the social situations, emotions and intentions of others and interact with others in the different contexts of everyday life. People with a psychic handicap frequently have difficulties in this area, which has often important consequences for their social and professional integration. The REMEDRUGBY program proposes to work specifically on these processes in the context of sport (+ role Play and blog) to strengthen the ability to interact with others and to deal with the stigma that can be encountered on a daily basis.
The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of menstrual cycle phases on recovery and cognitive function after general anesthesia.
Competitive soccer engages many of the body's systems to a major extent. The musculoskeletal, nervous, immune and metabolic systems are stressed to a point where recovery strategies post-exercise become influential in preparing for the next match. Recovery from exercise can be an important factor in performance during repeated bouts of exercise. In a tournament situation, where athletes may compete numerous times over a few days, enhancing recovery may provide a competitive advantage. Recent work has highlighted that the aim of most recovery interventions is to return psychological, physiological, and performance variables to the 'pre-exercise' level or to baseline conditions identified in the absence of fatigue. The post-exercise cold water immersion (CWI) through its primary ability to decrease tissue temperature and blood flow, is purported to facilitate recovery by ameliorating hyperthermia and subsequent alterations to the central nervous system (CNS), reducing cardiovascular strain, removing accumulated muscle metabolic by-products, attenuating exercise-induced muscle damage (EIMD) and improving autonomic nervous system function. All these alterations provoke important physiological changes for the recovery of the athlete. Scientific evidence for other strategies reviewed in their ability to accelerate the return to the initial level of performance is still lacking. These include active recovery, stretching, compression garments, massage and electrical stimulation. While this does not mean that these strategies do not aid the recovery process, the protocols implemented up until now do not significantly accelerate the return to initial levels of performance in comparison with a control condition. Among these new strategies, Photobimodulation therapy - PBMT using low-level laser therapy (LLLT) and light-emitting diode therapy (LEDT) has been the focus of important research insights science in recent years. The PBMT has been used to increase muscle performance and reduces muscle fatigue signals. The mechanism proposed for the use of PBMT in sports and exercise is the increase in cytochrome c-oxidase in skeletal muscle fibers that lead to upregulation of mitochondrial activity, which increases ATP production promoting more energy for the muscle and decreases oxidative stress and reactive oxygen species production. Considering that the consented CWI is already used with good results in soccer athletes, however it has some drawbacks such as the time of application and the inconvenience caused by the application of cold and the new possibilities presented in the literature of the use of PBMT we propose to carry out this study. To address these issues, the present study aims to investigate and analyze biological markers on oxidative stress and muscle damage in soccer athletes after a match submitted to recovery strategies through CWI and PBMT
The process of enhancing an individual's functional capacity to optimize physiologic reserves before an operation to withstand the stress of surgery has been coined prehabilitation. This is a prospective randomized controlled trail, designed to explore if the patients who take thoracoscopic lobectomy for lung cancer will benefit from family trimodal prehabilitation strategy. Trimodal prehabilitation includes exercise, nutrition supplement and physiology management preoperatively. It starts from the day that patients decide to take the surgery until the day before surgery, lasting 2~3 week in our hospital. And we follow-up patients until 8 weeks after surgery to investigate if trimodal prehabilitation strategy can improve the postoperative functional recovery，reduce complications and improve prognosis.
Investigation of 4 weeks supplementation with Carnipure® tartrate on endothelial function and parameters of recovery after physical exertion.
Background/Aim: While growing evidence supports the use of photobiomodulation therapy (PBMT) for performance and recovery enhancement, there have only been laboratory-controlled studies. Therefore, the aim of this study was to analyze the effects of PBMT in performance and recovery of high-level rugby players during an anaerobic field test. Methods: It is a randomized, crossover, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial. Twelve male high-level rugby athletes were recruited in this study. No intervention was performed before the Bangsbo Sprint Test (BST) at familiarization phase (week 1). At weeks 2 and 3, pre-exercise PBMT or placebo were randomly applied to each athlete. PBMT/placebo irradiation was performed at 17 sites of each lower limb, employing a cluster with 12 diodes (4 laser diodes of 905nm, 4 LED diodes of 875nm, and 4 LED diodes of 640nm, 30J per site - manufactured by Multi Radiance Medical™). Average time of sprints, best time of sprints, and fatigue index were obtained from BST. Blood lactate levels were assessed at baseline, and at 3, 10, 30 and 60 minutes after BST. Athletes' perceived fatigue was also assessed through a questionnaire.