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..To characterise the nature of the sport injury prevention literature by reviewing published articles that evaluate specific clinical interventions designed to reduce sport injury risks...

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..The Cues and Care trial is a randomized controlled trial of an intervention designed to reduce maternal anxiety and promote sensitive interaction in mothers of very low birthweight infants...

..Purpose: To compare changes in jump height and running velocity with and without pre-event high-velocity, low-amplitude manipulation (HVLA)...

..To review the basic principles underlying treatment of injuries in active people...

..However, the inherent heterogeneity in a series of smaller trials may represent a significant advantage over a single mega-trial...

..Men were less likely than women to be prescribed all three, but only cane use was statistically significant across genders. In conclusion, physiotherapy and exercise are not commonly prescribed in patients with hip OA...

..To determine whether increased physical activity 1 month after deep vein thrombosis (DVT) led to worsening of venous symptoms and signs within the subsequent 3 months...

..This is a review of the clinical literature to see which hypothesis has the greatest support. Clinical studies support the muscle dysfunction hypothesis over the wear and tear hypothesis...

..The purpose of this article was to evaluate the clinical and basic science evidence surrounding the hypothesis that stretching improves performance...

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..The authors found that the advantages of including both observational studies and randomized studies in a meta-analysis could outweigh the disadvantages in many situations and that observational studies should not be excluded a priori...

..To explore the relationship between potential psychological risk factors and injury risk in circus artists...

..Future research should explore predictive models based on the different components accounting for heterogeneous pathology and different patient contexts...

..To determine if the level of self-reported physical activity 1 month after deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is associated with the risk of post-thrombotic syndrome (PTS) in the first 2 years post-DVT...

..More advanced analyses are required to account for multiplicity...

..Human circus arts are gaining increasing popularity as a physical activity with more than 500 companies and 200 schools. The only injury data that currently exist are a few case reports and 1 survey...

..e. to make causal inferences about the exposure. Recent developments in epidemiology have shown that traditional methods of identifying confounding and adjusting for confounding may be inadequate...

..Interview-report by youth themselves should be explored as a possible low cost method of documenting youth sport injuries...

..The objective of this study was to determine the discordance in interpretations when meta-analysts are presented with identical data...

..A quasi-experimental study was conducted...

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..The conclusion that work is associated with musculoskeletal pain development in adolescents implies that implementation of prevention strategies in the workplace should include adolescents who work...

..01, 1.06), and working during the school year (odds ratio = 1.33; 95% CI: 1.03, 1.71). Modifying such risk factors as smoking and poor leg flexibility may potentially serve to prevent the development of low back pain in adolescents...

..88 and SEM 3.4. CONCLUSIONS: The apparatus is a simple and inexpensive standardised tool that reliably measures triceps surae fatigability in subjects with no current injury. Future research should assess its use in injured patients...

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..In colorectal cancer, on the contrary, meta-analyses of case-based studies suggest protection. The possible importance of distinguishing LNP/LP status in studies is discussed...

..We investigated the incidence of leg pain in adolescents to determine whether high growth spurt and/or poor flexibility are risk factors for the development of lower extremity pain...

..Inadequacy of prophylaxis was most often caused by omission of prophylaxis. Missed opportunities for prevention occurred most commonly in the settings of nonorthopedic surgery, pneumonia, and stroke...

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..2 percent). CONCLUSIONS: We conclude that specialization in colon and rectal surgery contributed to an improved outcome, with a lower rate of diverting procedures, a shorter hospital stay, and a lower rate of complications...

..An individualized approach may be most effective based on intersubject variation and differences between healthy and injured tissues...

..A prospective, repeated-measures cohort design with high school students from Montreal, Canada...

..Prebiotic effects likely favour lactose maldigesters who experience lactose spilling into their colon...

..We compared generic and venous disease-specific quality of life in patients with and without PTS, and assessed whether quality of life correlated with severity of PTS...

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..We then explored whether these intervals differed by age, sex, occupation or quality-of-life score...

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..The study failed to show any advantage in providing additional information to subjects before liver biopsy, regardless of coping style...

..However, the effects of exercise in patients with previous DVT have not been studied...

..These results raise the possibility that LNP/LP status may be partly responsible for the discrepant results with respect to the relationship between dairy food consumption and CRC...

..To describe how different health care specialists manage musculoskeletal injury in children and examine factors influencing return to play decisions...

..We performed a systematic review to assess the benefits or risks of physical activity in patients with an acute or previous DVT of the leg...

..e., more than one hour). We assessed our experience using desflurane in short out-patient surgery with a retrospective analysis of a single surgeon's elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy patients...

..A subsequent chart review of anesthetic records was undertaken to determine the extent to which these anesthesiologists record the variables they consider important...

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..We sought to determine the impact of the SCS on measures of resource utilization in the emergency department and family physician offices...

..The finding that the risk-adjusted mortality rate is lower at high volume hospitals is the basis for the decision to centralize. The goal of this study was to determine if current evidence supports the extension of such a policy...

..To our knowledge, the burden of deep venous thrombosis from the patient's perspective has not been quantified. We evaluated health-related quality of life (QOL) after deep vein thrombosis and compared results with general population norms...

..To assess the validity of VEINES-QOL/Sym, a patient-reported questionnaire to evaluate quality of life and symptoms in patients with deep venous thrombosis (DVT)...

..The reason some patients with deep venous thrombosis (DVT) develop the postthrombotic syndrome is not well understood...

..Our findings suggest that 2-day breaks every four to 6 weeks may be sufficient to avoid an increasing injury rate due to cumulative fatigue in professional acrobatic circus artists...

..Thus, operative intervention is not necessary in an otherwise stable patient...

..To describe the knowledge and attitudes about confidentiality issues within family medicine teaching units (FMUs) at McGill University...

..We prospectively measured change in quality of life (QOL) during the 2 years after a diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and evaluated determinants of QOL, including development of the post-thrombotic syndrome (PTS)...

..Whether or not PTS was present, the use of ECS during exercise by patients with prior DVT did not improve symptoms and signs during exercise or increase exercise capacity...

..In conclusion, although controls adapt to a 3-week period of lactulose ingestion, IBD patients fail to meet the criteria for adaptation. However, longer studies may be needed to establish whether IBD patients are slower to adapt...

..Somatostatin and octreotide have multiple effects which make them ideal for treating diarrhoea of different aetiologies. Their use in a variety of conditions with refractory diarrhoea, however, is based on a limited number of studies...

..The study results suggest that it may be necessary to improve the design of colonoscopes to make them more ergonomic. Appropriate positioning of the endoscopist, patient, and monitors may diminish some of the injuries encountered...

..This prospective study was designed to assess the reliability of nuclear shape factor determined by nuclear morphometry and to confirm its prognostic value...

..Advanced age, male gender, presence of immune-modulating comorbidities, and need for surgical intervention are factors negatively influencing survival. Conversely, young healthy patients have a good prognosis with no intervention...

..Definitive risk factors for immediate SBO could not be identified...

..Since DMARDs given during the early stages of RA are known to decrease damage and dysfunction, ways to increase their use and optimize care pathways for new-onset inflammatory arthritis are urgently needed...

..Although increasing participation in physical activities has significant health benefits, there are no guidelines to help professionals decide when it is safe to return to activity after injury...

..CONCLUSION: A simple relationship exists that allows readers to easily convert ORadj to RRadj. Limitations of the approach remain but seem to be less restrictive than the limitations of not converting ORadj to RRadj...

..Our aim was to assess the strength of the controversial association between thrombophilia and fetal loss, and to examine whether it varies according to the timing or definition of fetal loss...

..A prospective, repeated measures cohort study with high school students was conducted in Montreal, Canada...

..The usual reason given to justify the use of a drain is to minimize patient pain and stiffness of the knee joint. The purpose of this study was to assess the validity of this approach...