... bilateral heel pain As statistical tests assume that each data point represents a truly independent observation, inclusion of both feet may result in an artificially inflated sample size and ... describe all imaging features associated with CPHP Conclusion This systematicreview has identified 23 studies investigating the diagnostic imaging appearance of the plantar fascia and inferior calcaneum ... interpretation of findings and commented on the draft manuscript ARB assisted in the review process and commented on the draft manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Additional...
... anda class of acupuncture points referred to as Ah Shi points (pain points) Ah Shi points are a class of acupuncture points positioned outside the traditional Chinese meridians and are commonly ... pack application, (iii) participants advised to avoid walking and standing for two days post injection ** Foot function index questionnaire used in this trial was not validated Tillu and Gupta ... Gupta [25] and Perez-Millan and Foster [26] Imamura et al [24] found a statistically significant decrease inpain for the use of 1% lidocaine injections and standard therapy for the MTrP injection...
... numerical rating scale (NRS) for pain intensity and goniometric measurement of cervical range of motion Cervical manipulation consisted of HVLA thrust in rotation away from the painful side Mobilisation ... parallel groups 100 with mechanical neck painand radiation into trapezius A) HVLA rotational manipulation B) PIR to improve cervical ROM NRS-101 for painCervical ROM None Pilot treatment only ... Efficacy of spinal manipulation and mobilization for low back painand neck pain: asystematicreviewand best evidence synthesis The Spine Journal 2004, 4:335-356 Jadad AR, Moore RA, Carroll...
... previous conservative treatment General Practitioner’s surgeries and local gyms Orthopaedic clinic Clinical signs and symptoms Maximal painonPain > 3/10 onPain localised at palpation of plantar initial ... initial the plantar heel fascia origin weightbearing Pain at worst on Diagnosis of plantar Pain localised at initial weightfasciitis by a Physician the plantar heel bearing Sample size for each ... diagnosis of plantar heel pain/ fasciitis, or fulfill at least two of the following criteria: pain localised to the plantar tissues, localised painon palpation of the plantar tissues, plantar pain...
... Organization: International Statistical Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10) Geneva: World Health Organization; 1992 APA - American Psychiatric Association: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual ... 34 Furukawa TA, Cipriani A, Barbui C, Brambilla P, Watanabe N: Imputing response rates from means and standard deviations in meta-analyses Int Clin Psychopharmacol 2005, 20:49-52 35 Khan KS, Ter ... JAC, Egger M, Smith GD: Investigating and dealing with publication and other biases InSystematic reviews in health care: metaanalysis in context Edited by: Egger M, Smith GD, Altman DG London:...
... Edition; ICD-10: International Classification of Diseases 10th Revision; CAM: Complementary and Alternative Medicine; CINAHL: Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature; AACAP: American ... scale for determining a child's academic productivity and accuracy in grades 1-6 that has scale points; construct, concurrent, and discriminant validity data, as well as norms (n = 247), available ... Australia [34] The American Academy of Paediatrics recognised the increasing use of CAM therapies in children and, as a result, assembled a Task Force on Complementary and Alternative Medicine in...
... Korean and Chinese terms for Guasha ANDpain were used when searching the Korean and Chinese databases We also searched in the journals Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies (FACT) and ... Dropouts and withdrawals were not mentioned in these studies Outcomes One RCT comparing Guasha with acupuncture reported significantly favorable effects of Guasha onpainand the number of pain points ... validated and extracted according to pre-defined criteria (Table 1) The Cochrane classification with four criteria (i.e sequence generation, blinding, incomplete outcome measures and allocation...
... information on trial quality, and information on trial participants, interventions, and outcomes related to post-operative inflammatory markers Data regarding the clinical endpoints of mortality and ... Yamada K, Sakata R: Effects of atorvastatin and aspirin combined therapy on inflammatory responses in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting Cytokine 2006, 36:201-210 16 Brull DJ, Sanders ... clinical situations where inflammation is considered a major pathophysiological mechanism including in people undergoing CPB Pooled data in this systematicreview demonstrates that statin therapy...
... for calculation of the SMD were based on the following hierarchy: (a) for pain, measures of global hand pain took precedence over painon motion and the Australian/Canadian OA hand index (AUSCAN) ... search strategy is attached as an appendix Abbreviations AUSCAN: Australian/Canadian osteoarthritis hand index; CI: confidence interval; CMC: carpometacarpal; DIP: distal interphalangeal; EULAR: European ... metacarpophalangeal (MCP), and interphalangeal (IP) of the thumb and MCP, distal interphalangeal (DIP), and proximal interphalangeal (PIP) joint movements of the 2nd-5th fingers AUSCAN, Australian/Canadian...
... Table 3: Details of instructional time and of instruction received by the intervention groups, cont Author, date Information about what other literacy instruction participants were receiving, ... as calculated by the reviewers (mean of word recognition and word attack measures; also mean of comprehension measures, mean of spelling measures, and synthetic versus analytic, where applicable), ... Reading and spelling et al. Total instructional time = specific data not N/S – whether supplementary or additional or part replacement etc available (reviewer estimate = approx...
... al.: Thirty years after Alma-Ata: asystematicreview of the impact of community health workers delivering curative interventions against malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea on child mortality and ... lay health workers Implications for research Malaria, diarrhoea and pneumonia are of huge public health importance in sub-Saharan Africa and if ITNs, Page of 11 antimalarials, antibiotics, oral ... with advice from DR and SL The data were extracted by JC and AL JC wrote the first draft of the paper, and all authors contributed to the analysis and interpretation of the data and reviewed and...
... meeting of the Africa Campaign on disability and HIV & AIDS Proceedings of the Africa Campaign on HIV/AIDS and Disability: Dakar 2009 Hanass-Hancock J: Asystematicreview of literature on HIV/ AIDS ... 2000 onwards (AIDS 2008, ICASA 2008 and two international symposia focusing on HIV/AIDS and disability) were also searched Unpublished and ongoing research was accessed through contacting activists ... smaller studies can be linked to national data collection and focus on particular areas that are representative The operational research conducted in Kenyan voluntary counselling and testing centres...
... original study, and took part in the acquisition of data and their analysis and interpretation All authors read and approved the final manuscript 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Competing interests The authors ... 38 Gaspar A, Ribeiro S, Nabais S, Rocha S, Azevedo P, Pereira MA, Brandāo A, Salgado A, Correia A: Proton pump inhibitors in patients treated with aspirin and clopidogrel after acute coronary ... placebo in the improvement of HRQL relating mainly to gastrointestinal symptom relief Ina multivariate analysis, van Rossum et al also did not find any influence of clinical data on changes in...
... feeding Vitamin A at 300 IU/kg/day was given as ADE complex (D, 100 IU/kg/day; E, mg/kg/day) and selenium at ㎍/kg/day [23] Vitamin E and D were used as antioxidants and supplements to vitamin A ... duodenum and the cranial part of the cecum were tied and both ends were cut One end of the small intestine was at the stand anda conical tube was placed at the other end Then the lavage was collected ... Measurement of secretory IgA concentration was done by the sandwich ELISA [8,32] S tatis tica l an a ly sis Data were analysed by one-way analysis of variance followed by Duncan's multiple-range...
... and analysis, andin manuscript preparation PJE participated in data acquisition andin manuscript preparation All authors read and approved the final manuscript Additional files The following Additional ... conceived the study and participated in its design, coordination, data acquisition and analysis, andin manuscript preparation CPW and ELM participated in the study design, data acquisition and ... cases of hematuria – one case in Valentini and colleagues [18], two cases in Hoyles and colleagues [10] and nine cases in Tashkin and colleagues [1]; bladder cancer was not reported A doubling...
... extraction, editing/revision of document GC literature searching, data extraction, editing/revision of document RPA data extraction and interpretation; statistical analysis/interpretation, drafting ... their data as means and standard deviations, unfortunately, these data were not available Therefore, we conducted a meta-analysis of the three papers that present their data as means and SDs ... and meta-analysis indicate that tight compared to normal glycaemic control during and after cardiac surgery may impart some benefit to patients following cardiac surgery, including a reduction...
... tibial acceleration; decreased rate of tibial acceleration; and decreased shock wave transmission as a ratio of maximum tibial acceleration However, Alcantara and colleagues [21] using a multifactor ... barefoot and shod walking Additional file 4: Kinematic variables for barefoot and shod running Additional file 5: Kinetic variables for barefoot and shod walking Additional file 6: Kinetic variables ... material Additional file 1: Spatio-temporal variables for barefoot and shod walking Additional file 2: Spatio-temporal variables for barefoot and shod running Additional file 3: Kinematic variables...
... order to take into consideration the ethical dimension of healthcare professional behaviours, moral norm was retained as an additional category Also, although past behaviour and habits are not ... theories in explaining intention and predicting the clinical behaviour of healthcare professionals By means of asystematic review, the overall efficacy was evaluated and the effect of factors that ... reviewand had regular discussion on this topic in KT ICEBERG meetings ABG coordinated and performed the acquisition of data as well as the statistical analysis GG helped conduct the data analysis...
... order to take into consideration the ethical dimension of healthcare professional behaviours, moral norm was retained as an additional category Also, although past behaviour and habits are not ... theories in explaining intention and predicting the clinical behaviour of healthcare professionals By means of asystematic review, the overall efficacy was evaluated and the effect of factors that ... reviewand had regular discussion on this topic in KT ICEBERG meetings ABG coordinated and performed the acquisition of data as well as the statistical analysis GG helped conduct the data analysis...
... original study, and took part in the acquisition of data and their analysis and interpretation All authors read and approved the final manuscript 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Competing interests The authors ... 38 Gaspar A, Ribeiro S, Nabais S, Rocha S, Azevedo P, Pereira MA, Brandāo A, Salgado A, Correia A: Proton pump inhibitors in patients treated with aspirin and clopidogrel after acute coronary ... placebo in the improvement of HRQL relating mainly to gastrointestinal symptom relief Ina multivariate analysis, van Rossum et al also did not find any influence of clinical data on changes in...