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Objectives
To compare the temporal recruitment of the vastus medialis obliquus (VMO) and vastus lateralis (VL) during voluntary ankle movements and perturbed standing in people with patellofemoral pain, and to determine the effects of different reflex and voluntary postural exercise tasks on VMO facilitation.Design
Repeated-measures design.Participants
Twenty-three subjects with patellofemoral pain.Interventions
Quadriceps reflex contraction in response to postero-anterior knee perturbations was measured with three crural muscle contraction conditions and three postural exercises (semi-squatting, tip-toeing and heel standing).Main outcome measures
The electromyographic (EMG) onset time of the VMO and VL during each task was measured and compared across the different tasks.Results
The mean EMG onset time of the VMO was later than that of the VL in the voluntary tasks such as tip-toeing (VMO 95.3 ms vs VL 36.4 ms, mean difference 58.9 ms, 95% confidence interval −33.7 to 151.5 ms), whereas earlier VMO activation was found in the perturbation tests such as toe standing (VMO 17.6 ms vs VL 22.9 ms, mean difference −5.3 ms, 95% confidence interval −25.3 to 14.7 ms).Conclusion
These findings suggest the potential benefits of unexpected perturbation activities for facilitating VMO activation. The clinical applications of perturbation tasks in rehabilitation exercise programmes and the underlying mechanisms warrant further investigation. 相似文献2.
Objective
To investigate the effect of spectators on the performance of a physiotherapy exercise.Design
Observational study.Setting
Research laboratory, Trinity College Dublin.Participants
Forty adult volunteer subjects (36 females, four males). As there were only four males, these were excluded from the analysis.Interventions
Subjects were observed and timed while performing single leg stance in two conditions 48 hours apart; once with the investigator present (investigator condition) and once with the investigator and three spectators present (spectator condition).Main outcome measure
Duration of single leg stance in seconds.Results
The mean duration of single leg stance, for females, under the investigator condition was 173 seconds [95% confidence interval (CI) 131 to 214], while that of the spectator condition was 168 seconds (95%CI 128 to 208). The mean difference between the two conditions was 5 seconds (95%CI −21 to 31). This was not statistically significant using a paired t-test (P = 0.686).Conclusions
Female performance of a straightforward exercise such as single leg stance was not affected by the presence of three spectators. 相似文献3.
Mohammad A. Mohseni-Bandpei Jacqueline Critchley Thomas Staunton Barbara Richardson 《Physiotherapy》2006,92(1):34-42
Objectives
To assess the short- and long-term effectiveness of spinal manipulation therapy, and to identify the effect of manipulation on lumbar muscle endurance in patients with chronic low back pain (LBP).Design
A randomised controlled trial comparing manipulation and exercise treatment with ultrasound and exercise treatment.Setting
An outpatient physiotherapy department.Participants
One hundred and twenty patients with chronic LBP were allocated at random into the manipulation/exercise group or the ultrasound/exercise group.Interventions
Both groups were given a programme of exercises. In addition, one group received spinal manipulation therapy and the other group received therapeutic ultrasound.Main outcome measures
Pain intensity, functional disability, lumbar movements and muscle endurance were measured shortly before treatment, at the end of the treatment programme and 6 months after randomisation using surface electromyography.Results
Following treatment, the manipulation/exercise group showed a statistically significant improvement (P = 0.001) in pain intensity [mean 16.4 mm, 95% confidence interval (CI) 6.1-26.8], functional disability (mean 8%, 95% CI 2-13) and spinal mobility (flexion: mean 9.4 mm, 95% CI 5.5-13.4; extension: mean 3.4 mm, 95% CI 1.0-5.8). There was no significant difference (P = 0.068) between the two groups in the median frequency of surface electromyography (multifidus: mean 6.8 Hz, 95% CI 1.24-14.91; iliocostalis: mean 2.4 Hz, 95% CI 2.5-7.1), although a significant difference (P = 0.013) was found in the median frequency slope of surface electromyography in favour of spinal manipulation for multifidus alone (mean 0.3, 95% CI 0.1-0.5). A significant difference was also found between the two groups in favour of the manipulation/exercise group at 6-month follow-up.Conclusions
Although improvements were recorded in both groups, patients receiving manipulation/exercise showed a greater improvement compared with those receiving ultrasound/exercise at both the end of the treatment period and at 6-month follow-up. 相似文献4.
Objectives
To compare heart rate responses in the 6-minute walk test and the treadmill exercise test before and after an exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation programme.Design
Prospective cohort study.Setting
Hospital-based cardiac rehabilitation programme in Hong Kong.Participants
Thirty patients (mean age 62.1 ± 8.5 years, 20 males) with stable ischaemic heart disease.Interventions
Eight-week exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation programme involving upper and lower limb aerobic and resistance training.Main outcome measures
Six-minute walk test and treadmill exercise test before and after the exercise programme.Results
Comparing parameters before and after the exercise programme, the peak heart rate in the 6-minute walk test increased (median of 105 beats per minute (bpm), interquartile range 96.8-116.5 versus 110 bpm, interquartile range 100.5-124.5, P = 0.006), while heart rate recovery improved in each 30-second interval of a 2-minute recovery period. The distance covered during the 6-minute walk increased from a mean of 486.3 m (±standard deviation 113.9 m) to 552.5 m (±standard deviation 111.9 m) (P < 0.001). Rating of perceived exertion during the 6-minute walk test decreased from a median of 14 (interquartile range 13-15) to 13 (interquartile range 13-13) (P = 0.001). Heart rate recovery following treadmill exercise testing improved during the 30-second periods from 60 to 90 seconds and from 90 to 120 seconds of recovery. Metabolic equivalents increased during treadmill testing from a median of 7.0 (interquartile range 5.8-8.6) to 8.6 (interquartile range 7-8.6) (P < 0.001).Conclusions
Both treadmill exercise and 6-minute walk tests demonstrated improvements in heart rate recovery and increases in achieved workload following exercise training. This suggests that the 6-minute walk test is a valid tool to assess heart rate recovery following such a programme. 相似文献5.
Dara Meldrum Anne-Marie Lydon Mary Loughnane Fiona Geary Laura Shanley Karen Sayers Elizabeth Shinnick Denise Filan 《Physiotherapy》2008,94(3):212-219
Objectives
To investigate the inter-rater reliability of physiotherapy educators in awarding clinical placement marks to undergraduate students using a standardised clinical placement assessment form.Design
Inter-rater reliability study performed over five undergraduate physiotherapy clinical placements.Setting
Five clinical sites associated with a BSc undergraduate physiotherapy programme.Participants
Second and final year physiotherapy students who were on clinical placements (n = 86 paired assessments). Two physiotherapy educators (a practice tutor and a practice educator), equally involved in supervising the students over the placement period, marked each student blindly at the end of the placement.Outcome measure
Marking was performed using a standardised clinical placement assessment form and guidelines. This form was developed by physiotherapy educators, and utilised previously published work in the area.Results
Eighty-six paired assessment marks were analysed. Practice educators and practice tutors agreed on grades on 74% of occasions. The mean difference in marks (maximum of 100) between educators was −0.5 (95% confidence interval −1.1 to 0.2), and using the limits of agreement method, the results suggested that where two raters mark a student at the end of a clinical placement, the raters will be within 6.2 marks of each other on 95% of occasions. The intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) for the overall mark was 0.84, indicating almost perfect agreement. Subsections of the form also had substantial agreement (patient management ICC, 0.75; professional development ICC, 0.75; organisation and management ICC, 0.81).Conclusion
Physiotherapy educators demonstrated a high level of reliability in the assessment and marking of undergraduate physiotherapy student performance using a standardised clinical assessment form. This was evident over several sites and specialities. 相似文献6.
Background
Walking tests, such as the incremental shuttle walk test (ISWT) and the 6-minute walk test (6MWT), are recommended in the assessment of ambulatory oxygen for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, there is no evidence that these tests can be used interchangeably.Objectives
To compare the ISWT and the 6MWT in COPD patients in terms of indication for ambulatory oxygen therapy.Design
Crossover design.Setting
Patients attended as outpatients.Participants
Fifty patients with stable COPD (31 males; age 67 years, range 43 to 83 years); mean forced expiratory volume in 1 second 1.2 l [standard deviation (SD) 0.6 l] and 48.6% predicted (SD 23.4%).Intervention
Patients performed both the ISWT and the 6MWT whilst breathing air. Breathlessness (Borg scale), percutaneous arterial oxygen saturation (SpO2) and heart rate were measured before and after both tests.Main outcome measures
Post-test SpO2 and change from baseline.Results
The mean change in saturation was −4.6% (SD 6.2%) and −2.8% (SD 5.3%) after the ISWT and the 6WMT, respectively. Using Bland and Altman plots, the limits of agreement for difference in change in SpO2 (%) between the two tests were wide (−8.1 to 11.6) and clinically relevant. Sixteen patients (32%) and 13 patients (26%) met the criteria for ambulatory oxygen with the ISWT and the 6MWT, respectively (P = 0.32).Conclusions
This study found a wide variation between differences in exercise oxygen desaturation after the ISWT compared with the 6MWT, supporting the premise that these tests should not be used interchangeably in the assessment of ambulatory oxygen for COPD patients. 相似文献7.
Objectives
To determine inter-rater agreement on diagnostic category using the Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy (MDT) classification system for neck pain. If the diagnostic category was derangement syndrome, inter-rater agreement on the subcategory and the directional preference of treatment was also determined.Design
Clinicians viewed videotaped MDT examinations of 20 patients with neck pain and rated the MDT diagnosis independently for each patient. If the diagnostic category was derangement syndrome, the subcategory and directional preference of treatment were also rated.Setting
Private physical therapy outpatient clinics and a university clinical laboratory.Participants
Fifty-four clinicians trained in MDT for neck pain from the USA and Canada, and 20 adult patients with neck pain.Main outcome measures
Inter-rater agreement for MDT diagnosis, derangement subcategory and directional preference of treatment was determined using Kappa and percentage agreement.Results
Overall, agreement was of moderate clinical significance for diagnosis [κ = 0.55, P < 0.001, confidence intervals (CI) 0.52 to 0.58, 67%], derangement subcategory (κ = 0.47, CI 0.44 to 0.50, P < 0.001; 63%) and directional preference of treatment (κ = 0.46, CI 0.43 to 0.49, P < 0.05; 70%).Conclusions
Clinicians trained in MDT for neck pain demonstrate moderate agreement when classifying the diagnostic category and treatment for neck pain. 相似文献8.
Haeuber E Shaughnessy M Forrester LW Coleman KL Macko RF 《Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation》2004,85(12):1997-2001
Haeuber E, Shaughnessy M, Forrester LW, Coleman KL, Macko RF. Accelerometer monitoring of home- and community-based ambulatory activity after stroke. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2004;85:1997-2001.
Objectives
To investigate the utility of a novel microprocessor-linked Step Watch Activity Monitor (SAM) to quantify ambulatory activity after stroke and to evaluate the validity and reliability of conventional accelerometers to measure free-living physical activity in this population.Design
Cross-sectional with repeated measures of 2 separate 48-hour recordings in 17 persons wearing an ankle-mounted SAM and Caltrac, a hip-mounted mechanical accelerometer.Setting
Home and community.Participants
Seventeen subjects with chronic hemiparetic gait after stroke.Interventions
Not applicable.Main outcome measures
The SAM derived stride counts per day and Caltrac estimated the daily caloric expenditure of physical activity.Results
SAM data revealed that stroke patients had a mean strides per day ± standard deviation of 3035±1944 and demonstrated a broad range of daily activity profiles (400-6472 strides). SAM test-retest reliability was high across separate monitoring periods (r=.96, P<.001). Although Caltrac also revealed a broad range of daily activity calories (346±217kcal/d; range, 83-1222kcal/d), reliability was poor (r=.044, P=not significant) and Caltrac accounted for only 64% of the ambulatory activity quantified by the SAM.Conclusions
Microprocessor-linked accelerometer monitoring, but not conventional accelerometers, are accurate and highly reliable for quantifying ambulatory activity levels in stroke patients. These findings support the utility of personal status monitoring of ambulatory activity as an outcomes instrument and metric in programs to increase physical activity and cardiovascular health after stroke. 相似文献9.
Objectives
Outpatient pulmonary rehabilitation relies on the patient completing bouts of unsupervised exercise at home. The aim of this study was to monitor adherence with a home walking programme using activity monitors.Design
The sensitivity and reliability of five activity monitors were initially established at speeds at which patients are advised to walk. Thereafter, 18 patients with established chronic obstructive pulmonary disease attending pulmonary rehabilitation were recruited. All patients were required to wear a small device around their waist for two, 7-day periods during the 7-week course of rehabilitation. During this time, patients also completed a home diary card. Adherence was monitored by frequency, duration and intensity of walks.Setting
Pulmonary Rehabilitation Department, Glenfield Hospital, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK.Results
The activity monitors were able to clearly discriminate varying walking speeds and were reproducible at each pre-selected speed (P < 0.05). However, between-monitor comparison was not reproducible at the pre-determined speeds. Individually prescribed walking speeds for home training ranged from 1.76 to 4.83 km/hour. As a group, only two patients failed to achieve 100% of total adherence. Adherence for the individual components varied widely.Conclusion
Activity monitor technology appears to be able to discriminate individually prescribed walking speeds that allow home walking programmes to be monitored. 相似文献10.
Objectives
This study investigated the efficacy of a rehabilitation technique for the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome that was developed by a physiotherapist. Data collected retrospectively from a pilot study indicated that patients benefited from this multiconvergent approach, so further assessments were warranted.Design
Treatment efficacy was assessed by comparing the primary and secondary outcome measures of patients attending multiconvergent therapy (MCT) with those of patients attending relaxation therapy and a group of non-intervention controls.Setting
The active treatment took place at a clinic within the physiotherapy outpatient unit. Relaxation therapy and all assessments were conducted at the psychology unit.Participants
Thirty-five participants, fitting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention criteria for chronic fatigue syndrome, were recruited from two outpatient clinics and an existing patient panel.Intervention
Patients were assigned to either MCT (n = 12) or relaxation therapy (n = 14). Nine participants who received general medical care were used as a comparison group.Main outcome measures
The Karnofsky performance scale was used as the primary outcome measure of function. Secondary outcome measures assessing overall improvement in patient condition, fatigue and disability levels were also administered.Results
A significant percentage of the patients attending the MCT sessions showed improvement in the primary outcome score used to measure the success of the treatment (MCT = 83%, relaxation = 21%, controls = 0; P < 0.001). A significant percentage of this group also reported improvement in their overall condition (MCT = 92%, relaxation = 64%, controls = 22%; P < 0.001), lower fatigue levels (MCT = 83%, relaxation = 57%, controls = 11%; P < 0.001) and lower levels of disability (MCT = 75%, relaxation = 43%, controls = 11%; P = 0.032) immediately post-therapy. In addition, these improvements were maintained at 6-month follow-up.Conclusions
Outcomes from this small preliminary study were encouraging. The multiconvergent approach produced significant improvements for standardised primary and secondary outcome measures. Further research is required to examine the efficacy of this approach over time, and its effectiveness on a larger scale within the primary healthcare setting using additional therapists trained in the technique. 相似文献11.
Background
Nurses working with patients with advanced heart failure need knowledge that will help us to help patients cope with their situations of chronic illness. However, our knowledge bank is deficient due to the scarcity of inquiry that takes the affected person's point of view as its central focus.Aim
The aim of this study was to describe patients' experiences of living with advanced heart failure.Methods
The study sample (N = 9) consisted of male (N = 6) and female (N = 3) patients with advanced (NYHA classes III-IV) heart failure. The design was qualitative and open unstructured interviews were audio-taped and transcribed verbatim during 2006.Results
Four main themes emerged: Living in the Shadow of Fear; Running on Empty; Living a Restricted life; and Battling the System. The experience of living with advanced heart failure was described as a fearful and tired sort of living characterised by escalating impotence and dependence.Conclusions
The findings suggest that there may be an illogical but enduring ethos of ‘cure’ pervading health care worker's attitudes to advanced heart failure care. This mindset might be working to hinder the application of additional or alternative therapies, which might better palliate the physical and psychosocial distress of patients. 相似文献12.
Valerie S. Webster Lesley K. Holdsworth Angus K. McFadyen Helen Little The Scottish Physiotherapy Self Referral Study Group 《Physiotherapy》2008,94(2):141-149
Objectives
To identify service users’ views and attitudes to access, physiotherapy and patient-autonomous health-seeking behaviours.Study design
Mixed qualitative and quantitative questionnaire.Setting
Twenty-six locations representing a range of socio-economic and geographical settings throughout Scotland.Participants
Three thousand and ten patients over 16 years of age.Methods
Postal questionnaires containing a mix of open and closed questions, attitude statements and free text for comments were sent to all consenting patients 4 weeks after discharge from physiotherapy. Responses were analysed by referral group: self-referred patients; patients referred by their general practitioner (GP); and patients referred at the suggestion of their GP.Results
A response rate of 72% (2177/3010) was achieved. Males, females and all age groups were represented. Strong support for the effectiveness of physiotherapy was reported by all groups (>90%). Despite more than 80% of respondents claiming that they were able to confidently predict when they needed physiotherapy, less than 23% reported being knowledgeable or very knowledgeable about physiotherapy, with no significant association between level of knowledge and referral group (P = 0.129). Self-referred patients were more satisfied (P < 0.001), more supportive of being able to self-refer (83% vs 69% of GP-referred patients and 71% of patients referred at the suggestion of their GP), and more supportive of physiotherapists making decisions about their fitness for work or activities (59% vs 53% of GP-referred patients and 53% of patients referred at the suggestion of their GP).Conclusions
Physiotherapy was regarded positively by all referral groups, particularly by self-referred patients, despite there being a distinct lack of knowledge about the profession. There is a clear need to raise awareness and knowledge of physiotherapy if autonomous health-seeking behaviours are to be encouraged and self-referral schemes progressed appropriately. 相似文献13.
Objective
To compare cold pack/skin interface temperature during a 20-minute ice application with various levels of compression.Design
Repeated measures.Setting
Laboratory setting in an educational institution.Participants
Forty healthy females aged between 20 and 23 years.Interventions
An ice pack was applied to the right thigh with compression using an elastic bandage. Five different levels of compression were used: 0 (no compression), 14, 24, 34 and 44 mmHg.Main outcome measure
Cold pack/skin interface temperature was monitored every minute during the 20-minute ice application.Results
Ice application with compression led to significantly lower cold pack/skin interface temperatures than ice application without compression during the 20-minute application (with compression: mean 6.1 °C, 95% confidence interval 5.9-6.3 °C; without compression: mean 8.1 °C, 95% confidence interval 7.7-8.5 °C) (P < 0.05). The level of compression did not significantly affect the magnitude of the cooling temperature (14 mmHg: mean 6.4 °C, 95% confidence interval 6.0-6.8 °C; 24 mmHg and 34 mmHg: mean 6.1 °C, 95% confidence interval 5.7-6.5 °C; 44 mmHg: mean 5.9 °C, 95% confidence interval 5.5-6.3 °C) (P > 0.05). The minimum temperature reached with ice application with compression of 0, 14, 24, 34 and 44 mmHg was achieved after 9, 7, 6, 6 and 5 minutes of application, respectively (0 mmHg: mean 5.0 °C, 95% confidence interval 4.9-5.1 °C; 14 mmHg: mean 4.2 °C, 95% confidence interval 4.1-4.3 °C; 24 mmHg: mean 4.0 °C, 95% confidence interval 3.9-4.1 °C; 34 mmHg: mean 3.9 °C, 95% confidence interval 3.7-4.0 °C; 44 mmHg: mean 3.7 °C, 95% confidence interval 3.6-3.9 °C) (P < 0.05).Conclusion
Ice application with adjunctive compression leads to a greater magnitude and rate of cooling compared with ice application without compression. The higher the level of compression, the shorter the time to the minimum recorded temperature. Further research is required to demonstrate the effect of various levels of compression applied over an ice pack in a clinical population. 相似文献14.
Objective
The incremental shuttle walking test (ISWT) is widely used to assess patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. We hypothesised that it would be an appropriate tool to assess patients with coronary heart disease following coronary artery bypass grafts. We therefore explored the reproducibility, validity and sensitivity of the ISWT following rehabilitation.Design
Participants completed three ISWTs and an incremental treadmill test over 7 days. Eleven patients repeated the ISWT following rehabilitation.Setting
Cardiac rehabilitation department.Participants
Thirty-nine patients, 34 of whom were male, with a mean age of 61.2 years (S.D. 8.5), 6-8 weeks after coronary artery bypass graft surgery.Main outcome measures
Maximum oxygen uptake (O2 peak, ml/min/kg) and ISWT.Results
Mean (S.D.) distances for the three ISWTs were 448 m (137.8), 487 m (147.6) and 481 m (138.2). There was no statistically significant difference between the three ISWTs. The mean difference between Tests 1 and 2 was 42.8 m (95% confidence interval 59.1-26.5 m) compared with 1.7 m (95% confidence interval −1.86-5.29) between Tests 2 and 3. The mean O2 peak was 21.0 (S.D. 4.5) ml/min/kg. There was a significant relationship between the results for the three ISWTs and O2 peak (r = 0.79, r = 0.86 and r = 0.87 for Tests 1-3, respectively). Following rehabilitation, there was a significant increase in the distance walked; the mean difference between the second ISWT and the post-rehabilitation ISWT was 81.8 m (95% confidence interval 53.2-110.4, P < 0.001).Conclusions
The ISWT correlates well with O2 peak and is a reliable measure of cardiorespiratory fitness in this population after one practice walk. 相似文献15.
Lin S-I, Lin R-M, Huang L-W. Disability in patients with degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis.
Objective
To determine factors associated with disability in patients with degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis.Design
One-group cross-sectional study.Setting
University hospital.Participants
One hundred eight patients with degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis.Interventions
Not applicable.Main Outcome Measures
Oswestry Disability Index and 4 categories of factors, including patient demographics (age, sex, number of comorbidities, medications), symptom-related factors (intensity, location, onset duration, neurogenic claudication), body structure and function as described in the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health model (muscle strength, vibration sense, spine flexibility), and stenotic condition (type and number of spinal segments involved).Results
Patients with symptoms in both back and leg reported greater disability than those with symptoms only in the leg or back (P=.008). Greater disability correlated significantly with greater symptom intensity (r=.385, P<.001) and higher vibration threshold (r=.236, P=.014). While controlling the variance in patient demographics in the regression analysis, vibration sense and symptom location each added 10% of the variance in disability, and symptom intensity and strength each added 5%, with a total of 44% variance explained (P=.044).Conclusions
Symptom intensity and location, vibration sense, and muscle strength were identified as significant factors and, together with patient demographics, accounted for 44% of the variance explained in disability. Further investigations are needed to determine if causal relationships exist between these factors and disability. 相似文献16.
Objective
To investigate the hypoalgesic effects of massage on experimental pain.Design
A cross-over intervention study separated by a 24-hour washout period. During each experiment, participants completed five cold-induced pain tests, two before the intervention and three during the intervention. During each test, participants immersed their hand in iced water and reported the first sensation of pain and pain intensity after a further 30 seconds.Setting
Laboratory setting.Participants
A volunteer sample of 30 university staff and students without known pathology, recruited from noticeboard advertisements.Interventions
Participants received massage in one experiment and static touch in the other experiment. Interventions were administered to the ipsilateral arm for 4 minutes immediately before the hand was immersed in iced water.Main outcome measures
Time to pain threshold and the odds of a reduction in pain intensity and an increase in pain relief.Results
A mixed model analysis was used to establish how measures varied, according to baseline, during static touch and during massage. Massage increased the pain threshold by a factor of 1.08 (95% confidence interval 0.99-1.17) compared with static touch, but this failed to reach statistical significance (P = 0.088). Massage was more likely to result in a report of low pain intensity than static touch (odds ratio 0.26, 95% confidence interval 0.10-0.71, P = 0.007). Massage was more likely to result in a state of high pain relief than static touch (odds ratio 7.7, 95% confidence interval 3.0-19.8, P < 0.001).Conclusion
Massage produced hypoalgesic effects on experimental pain in healthy volunteers. 相似文献17.
Julie Bernhardt Karen Borschmann Dominic Crock Keith Hill Anne McGann Mary DeGori 《Physiotherapy》2005,91(4):209-222
Objectives
Following hip fracture, the amount of time an individual spends on their feet (‘uptime’) may be an important marker of recovery. Using an automated device that measured uptime (Uptimer), we aimed to: (1) compare hip fracture patients’ uptime with age- and gender-matched community dwelling older people; (2) identify whether uptime changed during the transition from hospital to home; and (3) examine the relationship between uptime and existing functional measures.Design
Prospective, observational study.Setting
Rehabilitation hospital and community.Participants
Patients undergoing rehabilitation after hip fracture surgery who aimed to return home at the end of rehabilitation, and age- and gender-matched community dwellers.Interventions
Patients received standard care.Main outcome measures
Uptime over 24 hours was measured on three occasions in hip fracture patients: 1 week before, 1 day before and 1 week after discharge home. Uptime over 24 hours was measured once in age- and gender-matched community dwelling older people. Functional mobility, self-reported activity, pain, mood and endurance were also assessed.Results
Thirteen hip fracture patients (mean age 80.4 years) and 13 community dwelling participants completed testing. Once home, hip fracture patients spent 3.4 hours/day (25th, 75th percentiles 2.8, 5.2) upright, while community dwelling healthy older people were upright for 6.5 hours/day (6.1, 8.7). A trend for uptime to increase between hospital and home was observed. Hip fracture uptime at home correlated significantly with self-reported activity, functional mobility and gait endurance (P < 0.05).Conclusions
This study highlighted uptime limitations of hip fracture patients at home. We discuss possible future directions for research using the Uptimer. 相似文献18.
M.H. Elleuch A. Yahia S. Ghroubi O. Kharrat M. Mezghanni K. Ayedi 《Annales de Réadaptation et de Médecine Physique》2008,51(9):722-728
Objectives
To describe the epidemiological and clinical features of patients with primitive adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder treated by capsular distension and then rehabilitation; to evaluate the short-, mid- and long-term efficiency of this therapeutic protocol and compare it with rehabilitation alone.Materials and methods
This was a two-year prospective study. Sixty patients were included and divided into populations P1 (capsular distension and rehabilitation) and P2 (rehabilitation only). Assessment of the treatments’ efficacy was based on the following parameters: pain on a visual analogue scale (VAS), joint motion in several axes, a simplified Constant score (functional ability) and the SF-36 quality of life score.Results
Thirty patients (mean age: 56) underwent capsular distension. The Constant score was judged to be poor in over half of the patients. All the quality of life parameters were modified. When compared with P2, the P1 group showed a statistically significant improvement in terms of the pain score (p = 0.005), anterior elevation (p = 0.001), lateral elevation (p = 0.005), external rotation (p = 0.006) and the Constant score (p < 0.001) one week after capsular distension. One year after capsular distension, this gain persisted in a statistically significant manner for all functional parameters and all SF-36 dimensions (p < 0.001 for PF, RP, BP, SF and RE; p = 0.01 for GH and VT and p = 0.002 for MH).Conclusion
Our results show that capsular distension and subsequent intensive rehabilitation have a beneficial effect. This combination enables rapid, significant improvement from the first week onwards. The improvement phase lasts for one month and may hold steady for up to 12 months. 相似文献19.
Objectives
Researchers investigating the effects of computer use and the development of musculoskeletal disorders have mainly focused on the effects of prolonged muscle loading associated with postures assumed during computer use in the adult population. The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of different forms of old and new information technology (IT) on muscle activity levels in a paediatric population.Design
A 3 × 3 × 2 mixed model design was used for this study.Participants
Thirty-two schoolchildren aged 4-17 years participated in this study.Outcome measures
Surface electromyography (EMG) data were collected from the left and right cervical erector spinae and upper trapezius muscles. Participants performed a 5-minutes reading task using the three IT types (book, laptop and desktop computer).Results
Cervical erector spinae and upper trapezius muscle activity levels were significantly higher when children used the laptop set-up (P < 0.001). The lowest muscle activity levels were found when children used the desktop set-up. Cervical erector spinae and upper trapezius muscle activities were found to be higher on the left side in the book set-up compared with higher right muscle activity levels in the computer set-ups (P = 0.047 and <0.001, respectively).Conclusions
The three IT types had different effects on cervical erector spinae and upper trapezius muscle activity, suggesting varying risks associated with different IT types. Activity levels were often above 5% maximum EMG (MEMG). As adult studies have linked activity levels greater than 5%MEMG with the development of musculoskeletal disorders, it seems that children are potentially at risk of replicating these adverse health reactions associated with adult IT use. 相似文献20.