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LMV may be a feasible and safe tool to be integrated into traditional and conventional neurorehabilitation programs for post-stroke patients to reduce spasticity. Analysis of the available clinical trials do not allow us to indicate vibration therapy as effective in functional motor recovery, despite some studies showed encouraging results. Further studies, with larger size of homogeneous patients and with a shared methodology are needed to produce more reliable data, especially on the lower limb.

LMV may be a feasible and safe tool to be integrated into traditional and conventional neurorehabilitation programs for post-stroke patients to reduce spasticity. Analysis of the available clinical trials do not allow us to indicate vibration therapy as effective in functional motor recovery, despite some studies showed encouraging results. Further studies, with larger size of homogeneous patients and with a shared methodology are needed to produce more reliable data, especially on the lower limb.

Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is common in patients with cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and can negatively impact the course of CVD. However, scarce data are available for patients before or after cardiac surgery (CS) in the context of OSA.

This study investigated the impact of an undetected OSA on the results of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) in patients after CS.

Observational study over a period of 3 months following CS.

The setting of this study was inpatient CR after CS or cardiac interventions.

CS cohort referred to a CR program to an inpatient rehabilitation clinic in Switzerland.

In this prospective observational study 256 patients were screened for OSA at the entry of CR via a level III screening device (ApneaLink Air

, Resmed, San Diego, CA, USA). Navitoclax cost They were stratified into two groups apnea hypopnea index (AHI) >15 or <15/h. A comprehensive assessment was performed at entry and end of CR including six-minute walk test (6-MWT), Functional Independence Measure (FIM), Hospital Anxiety and in CVD remain unclear and are still the subject of current research.

Thermography is a non-invasive method to detect temperature changes on or near the surface of the body and may be used as a complementary method to screening and/or monitoring treatment effectiveness, despite its utility has not yet been fully verified. This systematic review evaluates the role of infrared thermography as a helpful outcome measure tool in subjects with back and neck syndromes.

A literature search was conducted across the National Library of Medicine (MEDLINE), Web of Science, and Scopus databases for studies that evaluated the role of infrared thermography as a helpful outcome measure tool in subjects with back and neck syndromes. The review was conducted according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis (PRISMA).

The search strategy and selection criteria yielded 812 articles. From these, 268 duplicates were removed, and only 16 were in line with the aim of this review. Ultimately, only seven precisely fulfilled the inclusion and exclusion criteria and were included in the review.

According to the articles reviewed, thermography seems to give an objective notion of change in inflammatory activity, which can corroborate the usefulness of treatment or the improvement/worsening of the patient’s symptoms. The overall quality of research was uneven in the study design, endpoint measures, and sample characteristics.

The number of high-quality studies of the role of infrared thermography in patients with back and neck syndromes remains limited. More than a diagnostic tool, thermography can be an objective tool for monitoring the effectiveness of treatment by identifying deviations from a healthy state.

The number of high-quality studies of the role of infrared thermography in patients with back and neck syndromes remains limited. More than a diagnostic tool, thermography can be an objective tool for monitoring the effectiveness of treatment by identifying deviations from a healthy state.

Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is the leading cause of spinal surgery in people over 65-years old. In people with LSS, generic self-administered questionnaires are the most commonly used PROs to assess health-related quality of life, global activity limitation, and low back pain-located activity limitation.

The aim was to develop a new patient-reported outcome measure assessing activities and participation in people with LSS.

Observation, prospective and qualitative study.

For the qualitative study, were enrolled in- and outpatients with LSS from 2 French tertiary care centers (Department of PRM of Cochin Hospital and Department of Rheumatology of Limoges Hospital). For the Internet E-survey, screened the electronic medical records of the Department of PRM of Cochin Hospital.

From February to April 2018 were enrolled patients older than 50-years and symptomatic LSS.

We used a 2-step approach. In a first step, we conducted a qualitative study using in-depth semi-structured interviews in 20 patients wed patients’ perspectives at all stages. Its content and construct validities are good.

Instruments able to capture specific needs of people with LSS in terms of activities and participation are lacking.

Instruments able to capture specific needs of people with LSS in terms of activities and participation are lacking.

Raman spectroscopy (RS) applied to surgical guidance is attracting attention among scientists in biomedical optics. Offering a computational platform for studying depth-resolved RS and probing molecular specificity of different tissue layers is of crucial importance to increase the precision of these techniques and facilitate their clinical adoption.

The aim of this work was to present a rigorous analysis of inelastic scattering depth sampling and elucidate the relationship between sensing depth of the Raman effect and optical properties of the tissue under interrogation.

A new Monte Carlo (MC) package was developed to simulate absorption, fluorescence, elastic, and inelastic scattering of light in tissue. The validity of the MC algorithm was demonstrated by comparison with experimental Raman spectra in phantoms of known optical properties using nylon and polydimethylsiloxane as Raman-active compounds. A series of MC simulations were performed to study the effects of optical properties on Raman sensing depth for an imaging geometry consistent with single-point detection using a handheld fiber optics probe system.