The Effect of Lower-Limb Exercise on Pain Management of the Patients Undergoing Posterior Lumbar Fusion Surgery: A Retrospective Case-Control Study by Tong Wu, Yong Ye

“…On postoperative days (POD) 1, 3, 7, and 14, data were collected and analyzed regarding the following items: patient satisfaction, lower-limb muscle force, lumbar JOA score (29 points), Oswestry Disability Index (ODI), and visual analog scale (VAS) score. …”
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Factors for Predicting Favorable Outcome of Percutaneous Epidural Adhesiolysis for Lumbar Disc Herniation by Sang Ho Moon, Jae Il Lee, Hyun Seok Cho, Jin Woo Shin, Won Uk Koh

“…Lower back pain is a common reason for disability and the most common cause is lumbar disc herniation. …”
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Reliability and Validity of the Persian Version of the Fatigue Severity Scale in Idiopathic Parkinson’s Disease Patients by Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, Hasti Hadizadeh, Farzaneh Farhadi, Gholam Ali Shahidi, Ahmad Delbari, Johan Lökk

“…The total score of the FSS-Per significantly discriminated IPD patients with more severe disability (HY stage > 2) versus those with less severe disease (HY stage ) (AUC = 0.81 (95% CI: 0.72–0.90)). …”
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Bioelectronic osteosynthesis plate to monitor the fracture bone healing using electric capacitive variations by Diogo G. Pires, Nuno M. Silva, A. Completo, Marco P. Soares dos Santos

“…Over the past few decades, a sustained increase in the number of incidents and prevalent cases have been reported, as well as in the years lived with disability. Current monitoring techniques predominantly rely on imaging methods, which can result in subjective assessments, and expose patients to unnecessary cumulative doses of radiation. …”
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Rehabilitation outcomes after comprehensive post-acute inpatient rehabilitation following moderate to severe acquired brain injury—study protocol for an overall prognosis study bas... by Uwe M. Pommerich, Peter W. Stubbs, Jørgen Feldbæk Nielsen

“…Acquired brain injury, such as stroke, traumatic brain injury or encephalopathy, is a major cause of disability and functional limitations, worldwide. Rehabilitation aims to maximize independent functioning and meaningful participation in society post-injury. …”
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Integrated treatment of depression and moderate to severe alcohol use disorder in women shows promise in routine alcohol use disorder care – a pilot study by Anna Persson, Anna Persson, Daniel Wallhed Finn, Alice Broberg, Amanda Westerberg, Åsa Magnusson, Åsa Magnusson, Olof Molander

“…IntroductionMajor depression and alcohol use disorder affect millions of individuals worldwide and cause significant disability. They often occur together, and their co-occurrence is associated with more negative outcomes than each disorder on its own. …”
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Sociodemographic and Lifestyle Factors in relation to Overweight Defined by BMI and “Normal-Weight Obesity” by Bodil Ohlsson, Jonas Manjer

“…Male sex, age, sick leave/disability, married/cohabitating, divorced/widowed, former smoking, and a high alcohol consumption were associated with higher BMI, whereas higher education and frequent alcohol consumption were inversely associated (all p<0.001). …”
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CORRELATION BETWEEN KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS (OA) GRADE AND BODY MASS INDEX (BMI) IN OUTPATIENTS OF ORTHOPAEDIC AND TRAUMATOLOGY DEPARTMENT RSUD DR. SOETOMO by Lukas Widhiyanto, Andre Triadi Desnantyo, Lilik Djuari, Maynura Kharismansha

“…Osteoarthritis (OA) is the number eight disease causes Years of Disability in developing countries. OA worsen life quality, from movement limitation until inability to perform normal daily routines. …”
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Efficacy of a guided internet-based intervention (iSOMA) for somatic symptoms and related distress in university students: study protocol of a randomised controlled trial by Harald Baumeister, Michael Witthöft, Eileen Bendig, Severin Hennemann, Katja Böhme, Maria Kleinstäuber, David Daniel Ebert

“…Secondary outcomes include depression, (health) anxiety, disability, intervention satisfaction and adherence.Ethics and dissemination Ethics approval has been granted. …”
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Best Evidence Summary for the Improvement and Management of Disorders of Consciousness in Patients With Severe Brain Injury by Miaoyuan Lin, Qiongna Lu, Sheng Yu, Wenjuan Lin

“…Methods Following the evidence summary report standard of Fudan University Center for Evidence‐Based Nursing, clinical guidelines, expert consensuses, systematic reviews, and evidence summaries were systematically retrieved from UpToDate; BMJ Best Practice; Guidelines International Network; the Cochrane Library; Embase; PubMed; Sinomed; Web of Science; CNKI; WanFang database; American Academy of Neurology (AAN); American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM); European Academy of Neurology; and National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR). …”
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A descriptive study of fatal drownings among children and adolescents in the United States, with a focus on retention pond deaths, 2004-2020. by Saroj Bista, Nichole L Michaels

“…Among all decedents who drowned in retention ponds, 19.1% were found to have a disability or chronic illness. Most retention ponds lacked local ordinances regulating water access (83.5%) and did not have barriers or protection (66.1%) or warning signs (82.0%). …”
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Does Scoliosis-Specific Exercise Treatment in Adolescence Alter Adult Quality of Life? by Maciej Płaszewski, Igor Cieśliński, Paweł Kowalski, Aleksandra Truszczyńska, Roman Nowobilski

“…The WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire, Oswestry Disability Questionnaire, and pain scale (VAS) were applied. …”
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Anodal tDCS and virtual reality gait rehabilitation in individuals with chronic stroke: a case series report by Aracely Marks, Shelley Oliveira Barbosa, Daniella Napoli, Susan E. D'Andrea

“…BackgroundStroke is a principal cause of long-term disability worldwide, significantly impairing motor function, including gait and mobility. …”
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Responsiveness of hand-held dynamometry for measuring changes in trunk muscle strength in people with chronic low back pain by Shouq Althobaiti, Janet A. Deane, Deborah Falla

“…Future research should also explore the responsiveness of HHD in people with chronic LBP with higher pain and disability levels using comparable measurement setups.…”
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Global, regional and national burden of tracheal, bronchus, and lung cancer attributable to ambient particulate matter pollution from 1990 to 2021: an analysis of the global burden... by Jianguo Lu, Xiangmei Zhao, Shaoyin Gan

“…Methods Leveraging data from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2021 study, we analyzed the worldwide burden of TBL cancer resulting from ambient particulate matter pollution using indices including disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), age-standardised rate of DALYs (ASDR). …”
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Concurrent and prospective relations between aberrant stress-induced frontal alpha asymmetry and cannabis use disorder by Brandon S. Schermitzler, Julia Y. Gorday, Michael Griffin, Richard J. Macatee

“…Background: Cannabis Use Disorder (CUD) is prevalent and associated with significant disability. Stress potentiation of drug use motivation is a mechanism implicated in CUD; however, little is known about the neurobiological mechanisms through which stress impacts cannabis use motivation. …”
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Prediction of pulmonary embolism by an explainable machine learning approach in the real world by Qiao Zhou, Ruichen Huang, Xingyu Xiong, Zongan Liang, Wei Zhang

“…Abstract In recent years, large amounts of researches showed that pulmonary embolism (PE) has become a common disease, and PE remains a clinical challenge because of its high mortality, high disability, high missed and high misdiagnosed rates. …”
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Dihydrotanshinone I Alleviates Crystalline Silica-Induced Pulmonary Inflammation by Regulation of the Th Immune Response and Inhibition of STAT1/STAT3 by Yiting Zhang, Chao Li, Siyi Li, Yiping Lu, Sitong Du, Xinning Zeng, Xi Chen, Jie Chen

“…Occupational exposure to crystalline silica (CS) results in a persistent pulmonary inflammatory response that eventually leads to abnormal tissue repair, disability, and death. The inflammatory-immune responses occur in the early stages of CS exposure, and both innate and adaptive immunity are involved. …”
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Whole-body photobiomodulation therapy for chronic pain: a protocol for a feasibility trial by Nicola R Heneghan, Andrew Soundy, Bethany Fitzmaurice, Asius Rayen

“…Introduction Chronic pain conditions are a leading cause of disease and disability. They are associated with symptoms such as fatigue, sleep and mood disturbances. …”
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Medium- to long-term functional outcomes of artcure diffusional patch therapy for lumbar disc herniation: which herniation is more likely to require surgery? by Zekeriya Ersin Çelen, Furkan Hanege, Soner Sarı, Bülent Özkurt

“…Outcomes measures included the Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) and leg and low back visual analog scales (VAS). …”
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