... were faded-off naltrexone The fading Was done either by scheduling periods of one, two, three, and finally four Weeks of no naltrexone-taking interspersed With one- week periods on naltrexone, or ... analysis and treatmentofsubstanceabuse in his role as director of the Behavioral Medicine Clinic at the University of Pennsylvania His exposition on the commonalities inherent in substanceabuse ... the shortcomings of presently available treatments have motivated research on new ways of dealing with addiction Two promising new treatments are naltrexone, oneof a class of narcotic antagonists...
... treatment approaches is common in substanceabuse programs serving AI/AN communities Evidence-based treatments for substanceabuse problems EBTs for substanceabusetreatment can be divided into ... Pharmacologic treatments for substance use problems involve the use of medications for the treatmentof withdrawal syndromes in the initial stage of stopping the chronic use of an addictive substance ... around the use of EBTs in substanceabuse programs serving AI/AN communities The two Euro-American sets of practices, 12 step and EBTs, now form the basis of most substanceabuse services offered in...
... University of Washington for the Division of Alcohol and SubstanceAbuse Olympia, WA September 30, 1994 The Washington State Division of Alcohol and SubstanceAbuse has identified the prevention ofsubstance ... Executive Summary October 31, 1994 SUBSTANCEABUSE AND MISUSE The Washington State Division of Alcohol and SubstanceAbuse has identified the prevention ofsubstanceabuse and misuse among the elderly ... discussion of the prevention ofsubstanceabuse and misuse by senior citizens must be prefaced by a series of critical definitions of what is meant by prevention, abuse and misuse, and the elderly None...
... for the cognitive therapy ofsubstanceabuse W e begin with an overview of psycho-v active substances and substance abuse, w e briefly review the history of psychoactive substance use, w e describe ... multiple substances (e.g., interaction-induced overdose) 10 COGNITIVE THERAPY OFSUBSTANCEABUSE Dual Diagnosis: SubstanceAbuse a n d Other Psychiatric Disorders The coexistence ofsubstanceabuse ... component oftreatment in the heroin abuser, methadone itself i unfortunately subject to various forms ofabuse (e.g., black s market dealings or use with other drugs) Further, m a n y heroin abusers...
... in the exclusion ofone residential treatment client and three day treatment clients, leaving an experimental group size of 13 While including the day treatment and residential treatment clients ... that people who enter substanceabusetreatment for problematic use of more harmful drugs can exhibit equal or better outcomes when using marijuana during their treatment offers a compelling case ... prevalence or severity of relapse may similarly influence legal and clinical decisions Just as legal pharmaceutical substances are routinely prescribed in the course ofsubstanceabuse treatment, marijuana...
... and TE2 We report results on both TE1 and TE2 because of the differences in the two parts of the ATB, both in terms of origin and in terms of data preparation We use the A LMORGEANA morphological ... those of Diab et al (2004) to indicate that the use of a morphological analyzer is beneficial for Arabic as Description Possible Values See Footnote YES, NO YES, NO YES, NO YES, NO Gen Basic part- of- speech ... the output of the classifiers This is a non-trivial task, as the classifiers may not fully disambiguate the options, or they may be contradictory, with none of them fully matching any one choice...
... component of effective treatment for substanceabuse may seem obvious, but substanceabusetreatment is not typically characterized by the kinds of support and encouragement that is more often ... that make substanceabusetreatment low on the list of a client’s acute needs Removing these sorts of practical barriers at the start ofsubstanceabusetreatment involves learning about a particular ... specific program (set of strategies) that would decrease substance use in SPMI clients as partof an integrated system of mental health and substanceabuse care To select a set of strategies that...
... positions of Professor and Chair, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, and Orthopaedic Surgeon-in-Chief, McGill University Health Center; and Adjunct Professor of Oncology, Department of Medicine, ... of the mediastinum 978 – of the retroperitoneum 978 – of the sacrum 970 – of the thoracic spine 988 – operative treatment 968 – poor-prognosis type 956 – reconstruction of the spine 970 – resection ... non-operative treatment 967 – non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs 967 – of the central nervous system 997 – of the cervical spine 988 – of the foramen magnum 1006 – of the lumbar spine 992 – of the...
... mean difficult choices in the allocation oftreatment modalities Therefore, a basic knowledge of the state of the art of the diagnosis and treatmentof spinal disorders is required, not only ... Fundamentals of Diagnosis and Treatment Norbert Boos · Max Aebi (Editors) Spinal Disorders Fundamentals of Diagnosis and Treatment With 274 Figures in 1290 Parts and 190 Tables Prof Dr Norbert ... as one continuous flow, one topic logically leading to the next This book can be recommended to anyone involved in clinical or research aspects of the spine It simply has to lie on the desk of...
... Non-operative Treatment Steroid Treatmentof Spinal Cord Injury Non-operative Treatment Modalities Case Study Operative Treatment ... Classification of Back Pain 587 Pathogenesis of NSLBP 587 Patient Assessment and Triage for Non-operative Treatment 588 Management of ... Specific Treatmentof Upper Cervical Spine Injuries Fractures of the Occipital Condyle Atlanto-occipital Dislocation Fractures of the Atlas...
... Krishna cures the hunchback ofoneof his female devotees named Kubja by applying axial traction The state of the art medical textbook of antiquity On Articulation (part of the monumental and famous ... (1911 – 1980) j Harrington hooks and rods for the treatmentof scoliosis Non-operative Treatment Probably the first description of the treatmentof spinal deformity is recorded in the Srimad Bhagwat ... measuring machine consisted of a glass plate with engraved squares on which a sheet of paper was fixed The patient was placed in front of the machine Defined parts of the patient’s back were marked...
... location and size of the lesion There is often a history of trauma not immediately related to the present condition Numbness and tingling, anaesthesia, partial or complete loss of power of locomotion, ... head of the Orthopedic and Trauma Unit at the University of Hong Kong, developed an anterior fusion by using bone grafts for tuberculosis treatment as explained in more detail below History of ... discovery of cerebrospinal fluid as outlined above, his discovery of aqueductus of the inner ear and his description of the typhoid ulcers It was finally the English physician Brown of Glasgow...
... von Bechterew (1857 – 1927) period [103] A most likely case of ankylosing spondylitis is the oneof Ramses II (1200 B.C.) He was oneof the most powerful Egyptian kings ever and is remembered ... still oneof the most severe injuries which lead to handicap and disability In the past, most of the patients with spinal cord injuries died after a short time because of a combination of pressure ... to Injuries of the Spinal Cord conservative treatment with bed rest and intermittent catheterization [12] The treatmentof spinal cord lesions was promoted by the special experience of army surgeons...
... (1877) A case of simple synostosis of the ribs to the vertebrae, and of the arches and the articular processes of the vertebrae themselves, and also ofone hip-joint Transactions of the Pathological ... thousands of people were affected This article is a milestone in spinal surgery because of the introduction of internal spinal instrumentation for deformity surgery Chapter 33 34 Section History of ... Council (1978) Five-year assessments of controlled trials of ambulatory treatment, debridement and anterior spinal fusion in the management of tuberculosis of the spine JBJS 60B:163 – 177 83 M´nard...
... neutral zone, an elastic zone with a linear relationship between load and displacement, followed by a plastic zone where permanent non-recoverable deformation of the ligament occurs The neutral zone ... mathematical models of the spine, which include a detailed description of the origin and insertion points of muscles, muscle cross sections, muscle fiber length and muscle type Of particular importance ... Deformity of the facets or fracture of the pars interarticularis compromises segmental shear resistance The posterior elements guide the motion of the spinal segments and limit the extent of torsion...
... elastic zone of the response curve ( Table 4) The neutral zone is a parameter that correlates well with other signs indicative of instability of the spine The extent of the neutral zone increases ... physiological limit has been termed the elastic zone The sum of the neutral zone and elastic zone provides the total physiological range of motion of the spine Flexibility coefficients for the spine ... diagnosing particular pathological conditions of the spine Furthermore, a complete knowledge of the normal motion characteristics of a spine segment is of crucial importance for the design of next-generation...
... non-contacting measurements of anatomical specimens J Spinal Disord 1:189 – 193 86 Tencer AF, Ahmed AM (1981) The role of secondary variables in the measurement of the mechanical properties of the lumbar intervertebral ... stress-shielding of the bone graft ✔ Rigid (multi-)segmental instrumentation may cause adjacent segment overload Goals of Spinal Instrumentation Spinal instrumentation basically means the implantation of more ... (Cotrel/ Dubousset) system [20] A milestone in the history of spine research was the introduction of universal concepts for the biomechanical testing of spinal implants by Manohar M Panjabi,...