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Filter by:More than 30% of patients with trauma-related complaints do not benefit from prescribed treatments. This concerns patients who have either a poor verbal memory or who are unable or do not wish to talk about their experiences. In clinical practice, trauma-oriented art therapy appears to be an appropriate treatment. The visual, tangible, experiential character of art therapy is in line with the often wordless, visual and sensory nature of trauma. Art therapy aims to contribute to achieving personal goals through the use of visual materials and techniques. This approach has been insufficiently examined. Treatment of refugees with Trauma-Focused Art Therapy has previously been shown to be feasible in clinical practice and acceptable to patients. Using a Mixed Method design, the researchers aim to measure the effect of this protocol in specialized mental health care and the experience of patients with regard to their personal recovery.
Chronic neuropathic pain is defined as pain caused by a lesion or disease of the somatosensory nervous system. It is highly prevalent, debilitating, and challenging to treat. Current available treatments have low efficacy, high side effect burden, and are prone to misuse and dependence. Emerging evidence suggests that the transition from acute to chronic neuropathic pain is associated with reorganization of central brain circuits involved in pain processing. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is a promising alternative treatment that uses focused magnetic pulses to non-invasively modulate brain activity, a strategy that can potentially circumvent the adverse effects of available treatments for pain. RTMS is FDA-approved for the treatment of major depressive disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and migraine, and has been shown to reduce pain scores when applied to the contralateral motor cortex (M1). However, available studies of rTMS for chronic neuropathic pain typically show variable and often short-lived benefits, and many aspects of optimal treatment remain unknown, including ideal rTMS stimulation parameters, duration of treatment, and relationship to the underlying pain etiology. Here the investigators propose to evaluate the efficacy of high frequency rTMS to M1, the region with most evidence of benefit in chronic neuropathic pain, and to use functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to identify alternative rTMS targets for participants that do not respond to stimulation at M1. The central aim is to evaluate the pain relieving efficacy of multi-session high-frequency M1 TMS for pain. In secondary exploratory analyses, the investigator propose to investigate patient characteristic that are predictive of responsive to M1 rTMS and identify viable alternative stimulation targets in non-responders to M1 rTMS.
This is a retrospective registry dataset of all adults who presented with cervical and/or skull base fractures or a subdural hematoma at Methodist Dallas Medical Center (MDMC) and had consults to the neurological surgery department beginning in January of 2016, and continuing until a statistically significant number of cases are obtained.
The clinical signs presented by a patient with a mild head injury are highly variable but remain strongly predictive of brain damage. The reference examination for the diagnosis of post-traumatic intracranial hemorrhage is currently the cerebral scanner without injection of contrast medium. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) tends to surpass CT in equipped centers, except for suspected bone lesions. The time required to perform brain imaging depends on the patient's clinical condition, comorbidities and treatments. The responsibility of antiplatelet agents in post-traumatic intracranial hemorrhage is currently discussed, particularly with aspirin. The hypothesis is that there is no significant difference in the proportion of intracranial hemorrhage in patients on antiplatelet agents after mild head trauma, in the absence of other factors favoring the occurrence of intracranial hemorrhage.
The goal of this clinical trial is to follow the progress of wounds in those with venous leg ulcers and diabetic foot ulcers while using an absorbent dressing called Mepilex Up. The main objective is to follow the progress of these wounds over time from initial visit to each follow-up visit. Participants will be asked to wear Mepilex Up dressing for up to 6 weeks of treatment or until healed, changed at every one-week interval.
The study is a two-center prospective cohort clinical trial. The primary purpose of this trial is to identify the pattern of DKK2 serum levels in ischemic stroke patients after revascularization therapy and determine the correlation between serum DKK2 levels and prognosis.
Background: Arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament(ACL) reconstruction is so far the gold standard for the treatment of ACL ruptures, but this technique still suffers from problems of tendon-bone healing, bone tunnel enlargement, bone resorption, a low rate of return to motion,etc. In recent years, due to the innovation of medical materials and surgical techniques, anterior cruciate ligament repair technology has returned to the field of vision of clinical doctors. This technique has the advantages of preserving the natural ligaments and their proprioceptive sensation, avoiding the bone injury of the tunnel and the complications of the donor site. However, there is still a lack of high-quality clinical randomized controlled trails to provide evidence of the effect of arthroscopic ACL repair. Hypothesis: Arthroscopic ACL repair is comparable to ACL reconstruction in patients with ACL tears (Sherman grades I and II). Study Design: This study was a prospective, multicenter, randomized, double-blinded, parallel-controlled, non-inferiority trial design. A total of 330 patients with ACL tears were randomly divided into 2 groups, and were randomly assigned to the experimental group (arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament repair) and the control group (arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction) according to 1:1. Follow-up knee function and other scores were performed at 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, and 2 years after surgery, and the total study time is expected to be 3 years.
This research is being done to compare two different methods of wound monitoring for chronic wounds: remote wound monitoring using a smartphone app and in-person wound monitoring in a clinic setting. This will be a pilot non-blinded randomized controlled feasibility trial. The investigators will enroll 120 patients with an active diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) who present to the multidisciplinary diabetic foot clinic in Baltimore, Maryland. Patients will be computer randomized 1:1 to receive wound care monitoring using remote DFU monitoring technology or standard in-person monitoring for 12 weeks.
Comparative evaluation of functional results and survival rate of peroneus longus tendon - PLT and hamstring tendon - HT used for reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament.
Background: Trauma is the leading cause of death in young adults worldwide and the most common causes of mortality are haemorrhage and brain injury. About 40% of trauma related deaths are due to massive haemorrhage and approximately 30% of trauma patients have an associated trauma induced coagulopathy. In order to improve outcome, the optimal care for the bleeding patient need to be further understood. Aim: The overall aim of this project is to evaluate characteristics and outcomes in patients receiving blood transfusion in the early phase after major trauma at a Level 1 trauma center in Sweden. The specific aims are: i) To describe outcome, characteristics and effects on the coagulation system in patients receiving early blood transfusion compared to those not receiving transfusion in the early phase. ii) To describe outcome, characteristics and effects on the coagulation system in patients receiving prehospital blood transfusion compared to patients where transfusion is initiated in the trauma unit. iii) To describe the effect from concurrent treatment with procoagulant drugs and intravenous fluids on outcome, characteristics and effects on the coagulation system in patients receiving blood transfusion after major trauma. Method: This is an observational study of trauma patients admitted to the Trauma Unit at the Karolinska University Hospital Solna, Stockholm, Sweden. Data from patients receiving blood transfusion (erythrocytes, plasma or whole blood) in the early phase of the resuscitation will be collected. All patients receiving transfusion within two hours from arrival will be included. Data on trauma details, injuries, physiological parameters, coagulations tests and treatment will be collected prospectively and from existing registries. The control group will consist of patients not receiving transfusion during the first two hours of care.