When clinically appropriate, a useful part of the clinical evaluation of knee pain is observing the patient execute a duckwalk, which requires the patient to squat and attempt to walk in that position. The duckwalk requires an intact ligamen...
The challenge is achieving meaningful clinical results, improving quality of life, and encouraging a positive attitude to behaviour change by en- suring that patients understand the relevant information, accept the need for nutritional modification, and work towards a new goal. Adhering to change is ...
To assess the posterior tightness of the shoulder joint, subjects perform the combined abduction test and horizontal flexion test while the examiner fixes the scapula and prevents it from moving by holding it. The humerus is passively abducted in the coronal plane for the combined abduction test (...
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) based diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) can assess white matter (WM) integrity through several metrics, such as fractional anisotropy (FA), axial/radial diffusivities (AxD/RD), and mode of anisotropy (MA). Standard DTI is su
242,243,244 Existing therapies for AD relieve the symptoms but cannot delay disease progression, and all of these therapies have limitations in clinical applications.245,246 The pathogenesis of AD has a multifactorial origin and is considered to predominantly result from T helper 2 (Th2) cell-...
Shoulder symptoms can be seen in the absence of anatomical failure, especially in the early stAGe of the pathologic kinetic chain. In these cases, the clinical diAGnosis is likely to be inflammation in the shoulder, disabled throwing shoulder, or pathologic kinetic chain syndrome. Most symptoms in...
2). The most common side effect of long-term use of NSAIDs is gastric bleeding [28]. The etiology of infection is much more complex and at the molecular level, there are several players involved in different types of inflammation. For example, autoimmune disorders like rheumatoid arthritis ...
10 and the long-term public health benefits of an effective treatment for OA and obesity-related complications,11 we tested the hypothesis that achieving sustained, significant weight loss, with or without increased exercise, would reduce joint loading and inflammation and improve clinical outcomes ...
Spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) is a manual therapy recommended as a second line intervention for LBP in most clinical guidelines4. However, like other conservative treatments, there is little evidence or consensus regarding the specifics of SMT application such as which patients are likely to res...
Further research is needed to determine how these approaches can inform the clinical care of PLHIV. Health-related quality of life Health is defined by WHO as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”57, while ...