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Ethnoscience, Alternative Medicine, Inflammation, and Pain Models
Published in Debarshi Kar Mahapatra, Cristóbal Noé Aguilar, A. K. Haghi, Natural Products Pharmacology and Phytochemicals for Health Care, 2021
Francisco Torrens, Gloria Castellano
Mediterranean Diet Pyramid is the basis for integrative medicine for veterans with disabilities, but patient-centered and interprofessional approaches represent the real added value for the best healthcare management. A comprehensive approach should include physical medicine and rehabilitation clinicians, pharmacists, and nutritionist to prevent malnutrition, self-prescription of complementary and alternative medicine, and food- and/or nutraceutical-drug interactions, according to a biopsychosocial model. Personalized healthcare for chronic non-communicable diseases that impact the quality of life should consider gut microbiota, genetic and epigenetic factors, and moods and hormones involved in stress response rather than functional status. In order to avoid potential food-drug interactions, plant foods should be chosen in those containing low phytochemicals and high micronutrients. If this is difficult to reach, vitamin and/or mineral supplementation is recommended (top of Mediterranean Diet Pyramid for veterans).
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Published in Nick Stergiou, Advice for the Novice Investigator, 2019
Here is an interesting story. Previously, I received a major grant from the National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research. The very first aim of that grant was to assess the reliability of nonlinear analysis techniques for both typically developing children and for children at risk of developmental disorders. We collected a lot of data during multiple sessions. After finishing the sessions with typically developing children, we wrote a paper and sent it to Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. They rejected the manuscript even though the experiments and analyses were performed correctly. Even the comments were easily addressable. So, I wrote a very nice letter and sent it to the Editor in Chief explaining this. In addition, I suggested that it would be beneficial if they accepted manuscripts that were funded through grants from their own premiere funding agency. The rejection was lifted and a resubmission was allowed. We resubmitted and the manuscript was eventually published. This has actually happened to me several times during my career.
Balneological use of geothermal springs in selected regions of the world
Published in Jochen Bundschuh, Barbara Tomaszewska, Geothermal Water Management, 2018
In the central part of Bosnia, near the source of the Bosna river, lies Terme Ilidža Spa. The complex, which is regarded as one of the oldest spas in southeastern Europe, was reopened after a complete renovation in 2004. Currently, it has a physical medicine, rehabilitation and wellness center. Treatments are offered to patients with rheumatism, neurological and circulatory system disorders as well as endocrine, gynecological and skin diseases. Other health resorts in central Bosnia have been located in Fojnica (50 km from Sarajevo), near Olovo and north of Vigegrad. The first of the mentioned towns has the Reumal Fojnica Spa with a physical medicine and rehabilitation center equipped with the latest devices. The center has a cardiac rehabilitation unit and a center for sports medicine.
The effect of robotic rehabilitation on posture and trunk control in non-ambulatory cerebral palsy
Published in Assistive Technology, 2022
Nihan Abidin, Ece Ünlü Akyüz, Damla Cankurtaran, Özgür Zeliha Karaahmet, Nihal Tezel
This prospective controlled study was performed in the Clinic of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Diskapi Yildirim Beyazit Training and Research Hospital, University of Health Sciences. The approval of study protocol was obtained from the local ethics committee of our hospital and parents of children gave written informed consent to the research and to publication of the results. (25.03.2019, Decision no: 61/28). The study was conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki (World Medical Association, 2013).
Improving Daily Patient Room Cleaning: An Observational Study Using a Human Factors and Systems Engineering Approach
Published in IISE Transactions on Occupational Ergonomics and Human Factors, 2018
Anping Xie, Clare Rock, Yea-Jen Hsu, Patience Osei, Jennifer Andonian, Verna Scheeler, Sara C. Keller, Sara E. Cosgrove, Ayse P. Gurses
This study was conducted at a 1,059-bed tertiary care medical center in Baltimore, Maryland. Eight adult medicine inpatient units (six general medicine/infectious diseases units, one physical medicine and rehabilitation unit, and one colorectal specialty unit) participated in this study. Units had between 15 and 24 single-occupancy patient rooms, all with a similar physical layout. Typical room setup included (but was not limited to): a patient bed, over-bed table, side table, family and visitor chairs, bathroom, and in-room sink.
Arthrogenic muscle inhibition and return to sport after arthrofibrosis complicating anterior cruciate ligament surgery
Published in European Journal of Sport Science, 2022
Marc Dauty, Pierre Menu, Olivier Mesland, Alban Fouasson-Chailloux
Since 2005, all our patients operated on an ACLr performed an accelerated post-operative rehabilitation (Early full weight-bearing with crutches, early passive and active knee extension) (MacDonald, Hedden, Pacin, & Huebert, 1995; Shelbourne & Nitz, 1992). Cycling was proposed at the second post-operative month and the practice of jogging at the third one by the orthopedic surgeon (Myer et al., 2006). At 4 months after surgery, the follow-up was performed by an independent physician of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, to assess the isokinetic strength recovery of the quadriceps and the hamstrings. The objective of this isokinetic evaluation was to detect the consequences of any post-operative complications on the knee muscle strength and to advise the return to sport until competition (Dauty et al., 2006). Yet, some patients developed arthrofibrosis with difficulties of hamstrings and quadriceps strength recovery, despite continuing rehabilitation care. Return to sport at the same level was in these cases compromised. So, from a historical cohort between 2008 and 2018, we retrospectively included all the patients who underwent a primary ACLr (Bone–Patella–Tendon–Bone (BPTB) or Hamstring (H) procedure) with or without meniscus lesion or extra articular tenosis, and performed isokinetic tests at 4, 7 and 12 months after surgery. We excluded patients who had an associated osteotomy, an ACLr revision, a concomitant other ligament reconstruction, a posterior cruciate ligament injury or reconstruction, a knee arthrolysis, a malposition of the drill tunnels on post-operative x-rays or a Cyclops syndrome surgery. We also excluded ACLr patients who had a post-operative infection, a knee swelling, an anterior or posterior knee pain without ROM reduction or a contralateral knee pathology. Patients who performed less than three isokinetic tests during the follow-up were not included.