Effects of acupuncture in neck pain patients a comparison of real and sham acupuncture

... conditions1 Painful conditions: Myofascial pain- trigger points approach to treatment Non-myofascial pain: nociceptive pain and visceral pain- best approached with segmental acupuncture 3.Neurogenic pain- ... electro acupuncture (EA) on visual analogue scale (VAS) for pain, and skin temperature of both hands, in patients with chronic mechanical neck pain To compare needle and placebo EA in patients ... sensitivity, and abdominal pain It has also been shown effective for evaluating the results of pain relieving modalities such as anaesthetic blocks, heat manipulation, and anti-inflammatory and for...

Báo cáo khoa học: " Long-term outcome and quality of life of patients treated in surgical intensive care: a comparison between sepsis and trauma" doc

... 348:1546-1554 Haraldsen P, Andersson R: Quality of life, morbidity, and mortality after surgical intensive care: a follow-up study of patients treated for abdominal sepsis in the surgical intensive care ... Strachan M, Kilonzo M, Vale L: Quality of life before and after intensive care Anaesthesia 2005, 60:332-339 Granja C, Teixeira-Pinto A, Costa-Pereira A: Quality of life after intensive care- evaluation ... outcomes in patients treated in a surgical ICU for abdominal sepsis They reported that most patients who had survived after treatment of abdominal sepsis in the surgical ICU regained good health and...

báo cáo hóa học: " Testing a model of association between patient identified problems and responses to global measures of health in low back pain patients: a prospective study" pdf

... this model by undertaking a series of analyses to determine the associations between the two individualised items and measures of "overall improvement", "general health status" and performance of ... programme of spinal manual physiotherapy in the treatment of non-specific low back pain of less than Q1 During the baseline assessment, the following question was asked: Because of your back pain, what ... Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009, 7:74 integrated and increasingly difficult to define and measure" Smith et al [5] explored a structural model of the determinants of health status and...

báo cáo khoa học:" An examination of the psychometric structure of the Multidimensional Pain Inventory in temporomandibular disorder patients: a confirmatory factor analysis" docx

... that characterize the MPI structure in the Spanish sample of temporomandibular patients are the elimination and change of some items in section I, and the combination of two of the original scales ... regression and factor analysis In the terminology used in structural equation analysis, a latent variable is a factor that is hypothesised from the observed variables and can be affected by other variables ... regional/local cancer pain and non-cancer pain: Role of psychological and behavioral factors Pain 1998, 74:247-256 Greco CM, Rudy TE, Manzi S: Adaptation to chronic pain in systemic lupus erythematosus: Applicability...

Báo cáo y học: "Neuro Emotional Technique for the treatment of trigger point sensitivity in chronic neck pain sufferers: A controlled clinical trial" ppsx

... return days later for assessment of the pain level using the VAS and to determine the status of the four cardinal signs of a trigger point using the PGA Statistical Analysis The results were analysed ... The fibromyalgia and myofascial pain syndromes: a preliminary study of tender points and trigger points in persons with fibromyalgia, myofascial pain syndrome and no disease J Rheumatol 1992, ... reliability in myofascial trigger point examination Pain 1997, 69:65-73 Reeves JL, Jaeger B, Graff-Radford SB: Reliability of the pressure algometer as a measure of myofascial trigger point sensitivity...

A computational study to investigate the effects of insulation and EGR in a diesel engine

... of insulation of an IDI diesel engine The indicated power increased at the adiabatic case 30% and 22.5% in part and full loads respectively Although in the EGR applying case, performance characteristics ... also worked as a Professor and Head of department in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vidya Vikas Institute of Technology, Andhra Pradesh, India He has 14 years of teaching and research ... [29] Arash Nemati, Shahram Khalilarya, Samad Jafarmadar, Hassan Khatamnejhad, Vahid Fathi Numerical parametric investigation of a gasoline fuelled partially-premixed compression-ignition engine International...

Báo cáo khoa học: Epoxidation of benzo[a]pyrene-7,8-dihydrodiol by human CYP1A1 in reconstituted membranes Effects of charge and nonbilayer phase propensity of the membrane pot

... reaction of 7,8-diols and the enhanced nonbilayer phase propensity in membranes containing PtdEtn Effect of lipids on the stereoselectivity of epoxidation The stereoselectivity of the epoxidation ... redistribution of the substrate between the aqueous and the membrane phase and is brought about by a change in the nonbilayer phase propensity of the membrane In accordance with this hypothesis, it ... demonstrated by the ratio of the formation rates of the two diol-epoxides, DE2 and DE1 These differ only in the conformation of the 9,10-epoxy-group, anti in DE2 and syn in DE1 The respective data in Fig...

Natural History of Tuberculosis: Duration and Fatality of Untreated Pulmonary Tuberculosis in HIV Negative Patients: A Systematic Review pdf

... disease Taking the crude unweighted average of all studies one arrives at a 5-year case fatality of 58% and a 10-year case fatality of 73% for open (smearpositive) tuberculosis Taking an average ... notion that the natural duration of smear-positive and smear -negative disease are roughly similar Discussion Main findings In our study we combined available information on untreated tuberculosis ... obtains a CF of 0.34, and an average duration of years On the basis of this study it is impossible to stratify by smear and culture status Prevalence and incidence studies The duration of disease...

Báo cáo y học: "The opposite effects of fluvoxamine and sertraline in the treatment of psychotic major depression: a case report" potx

... with fluvoxamine (150 mg) monotherapy was maintained, and her condition remained good At years after the disappearance of the delusions, the patient began overeating and oversleeping, as well as ... and sertraline in a female patient with psychotic major depression that was non-respondent to antipsychotics In this case, fluvoxamine monotherapy was effective in the treatment of psychotic major ... receptors play a role in the pathophysiology of major depression and in the active mechanisms of some antidepressants [16-20] The inhibition constants (Ki) of fluvoxamine and sertraline at sigma-1 receptors...

Báo cáo y học: "Systemic TNF blockade does not modulate synovial expression of the pro-inflammatory mediator HMGB1 in rheumatoid arthritis patients – a prospective clinical study" ppt

... is the first clinical study examining the effect of TNF blockade on synovial HMGB1 expression The expression of synovial HMGB1 protein and mRNA in RA synovitis remained unaffected by TNF blockade ... evident in the RA synovia in the lining layer as well as in cellular infiltrates and endothelium (a) Moderate aberrant synovial HMGB1 expression before the start of infliximab therapy from patient ... regulates transcription In addition, HMGB1 may be extracellularly translocated, thereby acting as an inflammatory mediator of tissue invasion and tissue repair [11-18] HMGB1 may either be actively...

báo cáo khoa học: " Oral bisphosphonate-related osteonecrosis of the jaws in rheumatoid arthritis patients: a critical discussion and two case reports" potx

... professor and the chairman of the Department of Physiology and Pathology, Division of Pathology at Araraquara School of Dentistry EMJ and RACM are professors and chairmen of the Department of ... maxillofacial region but did have a history of smoking During clinical examination a detachment of the marginal gingival (Figure 6a) associated with an increased probing depth value at the region of ... Cite this article as: Conte-Neto et al.: Oral bisphosphonate-related osteonecrosis of the jaws in rheumatoid arthritis patients: a critical discussion and two case reports Head & Face Medicine 2011...

Báo cáo y học: "Incidence of multiple Herpesvirus infection in HIV seropositive patients, a big concern for Eastern Indian scenario" ppt

... 30:1027-9 Santosh Vani T, Yasha C, Panda KM, Das S, Satishchandra P, Gourie-Devi M, Ravi V, Desai A, Khanna N, Chandramuki A, Swamy HS, Nagaraja D, Kolluri V, Sastry R, Shankar SK: Pathology of AIDS ... Study from a Neuropsychiatric Centre from South India Annual Indian Academical Neurology 1998, 1:71-82 Lanjewar DN, Shetty CR, Catdare G: Profile of AIDS pathology in India An autopsy study In ... Auguste Kadio, Niamkey Ezani, Achi Yapi, De Cock , Kevin M: The mortality and pathology of HIV infection in a West African city AIDS 1993, 7:1569-1579 Singh A, Bairy I, Shivananda PG: Spectrum of opportunistic...

Báo cáo y học: "Response of the mouse lung transcriptome to welding fume: effects of stainless and mild steel fumes on lung gene expression in A/J and C57BL/6J mice" pot

... Zeidler-Erdely et al., Response of the mouse lung transcriptome to welding fume: effects of stainless and mild steel fumes on lung gene expression in A/J and C57BL/6J mice Respiratory Research ... significant lung cytotoxicity and inflammation persisted in the A/J strain, whereas inflammation resolved in the B6 by days [9] Our lung transcriptome profiling in these mouse strains complements these ... JS, Yu IJ: Gene expression profiling in the lung tissue of cynomolgus monkeys in response to repeated exposure to welding fumes Arch Toxicol 2009 14 Antonini JM, Lawryk NJ, Murthy GG, Brain JD:...

Báo cáo y học: "Levels of anti-citrullinated protein antibodies and IgM rheumatoid factor are not associated with outcome in early arthritis patients: a cohort study" ppt

... Page of doi: 10.1186/ar2907 Cite this article as: Ursum et al., Levels of anti-citrullinated protein antibodies and IgM rheumatoid factor are not associated with outcome in early arthritis patients: ... change of IgM- RF and ACPA compared with the absolute change of DAS28, HAQ and SHS Figure Absolute change of IgM- RF and ACPA compared with the absolute change of DAS28, HAQ and SHS The x-axes of ... radiographic outcome in a large group of early arthritis patients, and whether analysis of levels provides additional information over baseline antibody status Materials and methods The early arthritis cohort...

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