Pharmacological Management of Chronic Neuropathic Pain: Revised Consensus Statement from the Canadian Pain Society by DE Moulin, A Boulanger, AJ Clark, H Clarke, T Dao, GA Finley, A Furlan, I Gilron, A Gordon, PK Morley-Forster, BJ Sessle, P Squire, J Stinson, P Taenzer, A Velly, MA Ware, EL Weinberg, OD Williamson

“…BACKGROUND: Neuropathic pain (NeP), redefined as pain caused by a lesion or a disease of the somatosensory system, is a disabling condition that affects approximately two million Canadians.…”
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A Short Version of the Pain Anxiety Symptoms Scale (PASS-20): Preliminary Development and Validity by Lance M McCracken, Lara Dhingra

“…BACKGROUND: Research has shown significant relations between fear and avoidance of pain and the suffering and disability of chronic pain. Effective measurement tools have formed the foundation for studying these relations.…”
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Impact of Anxiety on Quality of Life in Parkinson's Disease by Kristine K. Hanna, Alice Cronin-Golomb

“…Many studies focus on the impact of depression and motor disability on poor life quality but neglect to examine the role of anxiety. …”
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Current Concepts of Fracture-Related Infection by Si-ying He, Bin Yu, Nan Jiang

“…Therefore, early diagnosis and reasonable treatment are the key issues for increasing the cure rate, decreasing the risks of infection relapse and disability, and improving the life quality and prognosis of the patients. …”
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Information seeking by blind and sight impaired citizens: an ecological study

“…A literature review revealed a paucity of studies about the information-seeking behaviour of groups of people with disabilities, including blind and sight impaired people. …”
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Pilot Trial of the Reboot Online Program: An Internet-Delivered, Multidisciplinary Pain Management Program for Chronic Pain by Regina Schultz, Jessica Smith, Jill M. Newby, Tania Gardner, Christine T. Shiner, Gavin Andrews, Steven G. Faux

“…Chronic pain causes significant disability and psychological distress, but barriers often prevent people with pain from engaging in traditional face-to-face pain management programs. …”
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Obesity and Trends in Life Expectancy by Helen L. Walls, Kathryn Backholer, Joseph Proietto, John J. McNeil

“…It is also possible that the principal impact of obesity is on disability-free life expectancy rather than on life expectancy itself. …”
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Navigating personal recovery: multinomial logistic regression analysis of schizophrenia outcomes in community-dwelling individuals by Jintana Yunibhand, Jutharat Thongsalab, Penpaktr Uthis

“…Logit equations for stages 3 and 4 are as follows: stage 3 (living with disability): logit=−4.44+0.74×resilience+0.07×therapeutic alliance+0.02×recovery-oriented nursing service utilisation; stage 4 (living beyond disability): logit=−11.57–0.05×hospitalisation since onset+1.96×resilience+0.11×family support+0.06×therapeutic alliance.Conclusion The findings emphasise the significance of mental health nursing interventions. …”
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Characteristics of Patients with Newly Diagnosed Multiple Sclerosis – A 5-year Study at Benghazi Medical Center, Benghazi, Libya by Magda Elshukri, Kathloum Elkaseh, Anwaar Mukhtar Bennour, Heba Abdelrazek El-Zawawi

“…Conclusion: Newly diagnosed pwMS in the eastern part of Libya is characterized by a mild disability as manifested by a low disability score. …”
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A scoping review of interventions to supplement spoken communication for children with limited speech or language skills. by Maria Antonella Costantino, Maurizio Bonati

“…Seven studies directly addressed AAC use by children with different disabilities. Seven studies enrolled typically developing children: 5 evaluated the use of AAC technologies by children without disabilities in order to obtain results that could be used to improve interventions in peers with disabilities, and 2 evaluated peers' attitudes towards children who used AAC. …”
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Quantitative and longitudinal assessment of human placental inflammation using diffusion basis spectrum imaging by Zhexian Sun, Wenjie Wu, Zezhen Xiang, Hansong Gao, Weina Ju, Cherilyn Uhm, Ian S. Hagemann, Pamela K. Woodard, Nanbert Zhong, Alison G. Cahill, Qing Wang, Yong Wang

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Sleep quality in rheumatoid arthritis by Anil Kumar, Rohini Handa, Sundeep Kumar Upadhyaya, Sirinder Jit Gupta, Deepak Ramchandra Malgutte

“…Disease activity was assessed by simplified disease activity index, functional disability was assessed by the health assessment questionnaire disability index-Centre for Rheumatic Diseases version, and quality of life was evaluated by World Health Organization quality of life-BREF (WHOQOL-BREF). …”
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Tutorat auprès d’apprenants en situation de handicap : quels apprentissages pour les étudiants-tuteurs d’une Grande École d’ingénieurs? by Lionel Husson, Ruth Philion, Anne Janand, Isabelle Bournaud

“…Educational institutions have seen a significant increase in the number of students with disabilities over the past decade. Many of these learners face challenges related to learning or academic and social integration. …”
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Analysis of Compliance with WCAG Guidelines Regarding Contrast Im-plementation in an E-Learning Quiz by Krzysztof Dziedzic, Marcin Barszcz, Tomasz Wiśniewski

“…The introduction of tools facilitating compliance with WCAG guidelines to course creators, enhances content accessibility for individuals with disabilities, eliminating barriers to education access. …”
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Sex Differences in Parkinson’s Disease: A Narrative Review by Carlo Cattaneo, Javier Pagonabarraga

“…The results confirm the existence of differences between men and women in PD; women have a higher risk of developing disabling motor complications and non-motor fluctuations compared to men, while men have a higher risk of developing cognitive impairment, postural instability, and gait disorders. …”
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Burden of type 2 diabetes and its relationship with human development index in Asian countries: Global Burden of Disease Study in 2019 by Seyed Ahmadreza Alinaghian, Shokoufeh Hamidzadeh, Afsaneh Badrizadeh, Zaher Khazaei, Amirhossein Souri, Victoria Momenabadi, Elham Goodarzi

“…We estimated all-cause and cause-specific mortality, years of life lost (YLLs), years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) and attributable risk. …”
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Effects of photobiomodulation therapy in patients with chronic non-specific low back pain: protocol for a randomised placebo-controlled trial by Lucíola da Cunha Menezes Costa, Shaiane Silva Tomazoni, Leonardo Oliveira Pena Costa, Layana de Souza Guimarães, Amanda Costa Araujo, Dafne Port Nascimento, Flávia Cordeiro de Medeiros, Marina Athayde Avanzi

“…The primary outcomes will be pain intensity and disability measured after 12 sessions of treatment. …”
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Inequity and vulnerability in Latin American Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations with rheumatic diseases: a syndemic approach by Bernardo A Pons-Estel, Rosana Quintana, Ruben Burgos-Vargas, Everardo Álvarez-Hernández, John Londono, Ana M Santos, Adalberto Loyola-Sanchez, Mario H Cardiel, Maria Victoria Goycochea-Robles, Ingris Peláez-Ballestas, Ysabel Granados, Flor Julián-Santiago, Celenia Rosillo, Jose Alvarez-Nemegyei, Natalia Santana, Mario Goñi, Ligia Cedeño, Romina Nieto, Silvana Conti, María Elena Calvo, Eugenia Picco, Rosa Chacón, Jorge Delgado, Alfonso Gastelum Strozzi, Sergio Guevara-Pacheco, Vicente Juarez, Mario Alberto Garza-Elizondo, Juan Camilo Rueda, Amaranta Manrique de Lara, Nora Mathern, Marisa Jorfen, Alvaro Sanabria, Cristina Prigione, Adriana MR Silvestre, Vanina García, Julio Miljevic, Daniel Dhair, Matias Laithe, Fadua Midauar, Maria Celeste Martin, Maria Cecilia Barrios, María Elena Crespo, Mariana Aciar, Emilio Buschiazzo, Natalia L Cucchiaro, Mario Ruiz, José Adolfo Sánchez, Rodolfo Franco, Natalia Estrella, Silvia Jorge, Cinthya Retamozo, Sofia Fernandez, Martina Fay, Cecilia Camacho, Graciela Gomez, Jazmin Petrelli, Andrés Honeri, Viviana Arenas Solórzano, Ana Bensi, Marcela Valdata, Rodrigo Giraldo, Ignacio Angarita, Jesus G Ballesteros, Sofia Arias, Andres Vásquez, Lina Valero, Ani Cortes, Estafania Castañeda, Elias Forero, Astrid Feicán, Fernando Vintimilla, Jaime Vintimilla, Veronica Ochoa, Angelita Lliguisaca, Holger Dután, Jacqueline Rodríguez-Amado, Julio Casasola-Vargas, Conrado Garcia, Imelda García-Olivera, César Pacheco, Susana Aidee Gonzalez-Chávez, Hazel Garcia Morales, Arturo Velasco Gutierrez, JF Moctezuma-Rios, Eduardo Navarro-Zarza, Angelia Angulo, Rosana Flores, Janeth Galván Padrón, B Lorena Pérez, Janett Riega, Brenda Vaquez Fuentes, Miguel A Villarreal, Cassandra Skinner Taylor, Sara Marín, Dionicio Galarza Delgado, Diana Flores Alvarado, Jorge A Esquivel Varerio, Luz Helena Sanín, Marco Maradiaga Ceceño, Jorge Zamudio Lerm, Ivan Stekman, Yanira Martínez, Gloris Sánchez

“…Twenty clusters were identified in the Indigenous population and 17 in the non-Indigenous population.Results The variables associated with RMD among Indigenous populations were rurality, public health system, high joint biomechanical stress, greater pain, disability and alcoholism; and among non-Indigenous people they were being a woman, urban origin, older age, private health system, joint biomechanical stress, greater pain and disability. …”
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The Cognitive and Behavioural Profile of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Application of the Consensus Criteria by Monica Consonni, Sandro Iannaccone, Chiara Cerami, Paola Frasson, Marco Lacerenza, Christian Lunetta, Massimo Corbo, Stefano F. Cappa

“…The study also intends to assess the impact of physical disability on cognitive and behavioural abnormalities.…”
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Classification and Characteristics of Pain Associated with Parkinson’s Disease by Marcelo Rezende Young Blood, Marcelo Machado Ferro, Renato Puppi Munhoz, Hélio Afonso Ghizoni Teive, Carlos Henrique Ferreira Camargo

“…It is an early and potentially disabling symptom that can precede motor symptoms by several years. …”
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