fractures falls and onset of disability

... degree of severity of physical disability and the way people value and enjoy their lives Prenatal counselling and images of disability The implications of the interviews for prenatal counselling and ... plot? Medical and activist discourses of contemporary genetics and disability Sociology of Health and Illness 21: 669–88 Sigmon, H., Grady, P and Amende, L (1997) The National Institute of Nursing ... friends, education and work, problems, enjoyments and aims, built up a picture of interviewees’ views on the quality and value, and the possible suVering and costly dependence of their lives The...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... results clearly demonstrate that lack of SP-D allows persistent pneumococcal colonisation of the nasopharynx and trachea and early onset and increased levels of bacteraemia in colonised mice Our ... colonisation of the nasopharynx and trachea, hastens the onset and development of bacteraemia, and affects leukocyte infiltration patterns into infected lungs SP-D is synthesised and secreted ... cells and submucosal glands of the trachea of the normal adult mouse [20] and has been detected at low concentration (56 ng/ml) in nasopharyngeal washings of normal mice [21] Based on Page of 12...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... that are part of NACRS In order to improve understanding of the volume and nature of injuries in B.C., such as the extent and impact of falls, and the circumstances leading to falls, it is essential ... prevention of falls and injuries among the elderly • Falls cause more than 90 per cent of all hip fractures in the elderly and 20 per cent die within a year of the fracture Almost half of people ... severity of falls among the elderly and improve the outcomes for those who experience falls Currently, emergency response and acute medical care for falls receive the most 18 prevention of falls and...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 17:20

... implementation of standards two and six of the National Service Framework for Older People in England (2001) 13 THE ASSESSMENT AND PREVENTION OF FALLS IN OLDER PEOPLE Aims of the guideline ✦ To evaluate and ... England and Wales for the assessment and prevention of falls, including recurrent falls in older people; with an associated clinical audit system Clinical need Falls are a major cause of disability ... beneficial and adverse effects of the interventions; cost; acceptability to patients; level of evidence; quality of studies; size and precision of effect; and relevance and generalisability of included...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 16:20

... analyze, on the one hand, the development of a new governmental agency and, on the other hand, a transforming and expanding sphere of difference? Should our method be that of a compartmentalizing ... proliferation worldwide of the biological and biomedical sciences, a set of patterned ways for conceiving of and responding to normalcy and abnormality, health and pathology As I understand them, biobureaucracies ... about discourse and normalization are invaluable for understanding the emergence of the Federation and the concomitant concretization of disability as a sphere of alterity in China And I detail...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 01:00

... Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2008, 6:92 Understanding the impact of health conditions on the lives of older people is important for the development of policies and management strategies ... limitation); and societal (participation restriction) [3] Our knowledge of the natural history of these three levels and of the underlying health conditions, is uneven The prevalence and incidence of several ... of participants Page of 11 (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2008, 6:92 performance ("I have"), individual judgement, and the nature and timeliness of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... decreased pain tolerance and a higher level of disability Although the construct of fear of injury is also applicable in patients with fibromyalgia, the mean score on fear of injury of patients with ... related quality of life of patients with fibromyalgia as related to the quality of life of patients in other chronic conditions is presented in Table Results of quality of life of patients participating ... assessed: Disability The Dutch version of the Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQ) was used to score disability due to fibromyalgia The FIQ consists of 10 items The scores of each item are standardized...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... version of the Manchester Foot Pain and Disability Index Greek language version of the Manchester Foot Pain and Disability Index Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of ... MFPDI and to evaluate its internal consistency and construct validity Methods Translation process Three Greek-speaking content experts (two podiatrists and one foot and ankle surgeon) and two ... Three of the bilingual experts then evaluated the Greek versions, and any discrepancies were discussed and rectified by consensus A professional Greek translator, who had no knowledge of the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... design of the study, participated in data collection and drafting of the manuscript GK participated in the design of the study and coordination and helped to draft the manuscript All authors read and ... adaptation of the pronator quadratus muscle with absorbable sutures, and suture of the skin with non-resorbable sutures Rehabilitation Active motion of fingers, elbow and forearm in pronation and supination ... operating table in the supine position with abduction of the arm and supination of the forearm A tourniquet was used, and standard disinfection and draping carried out A distal Henry approach was...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... Sixteen proximal humerus fractures were selected and classified by the senior author as four 2-part fractures, eight 3-part fractures, and four 4-part fractures Each of the 16 fractures had an X-ray ... The impact of stereovisualisation of three-dimensional CT datasets on the inter- and intraobserver reliability of the AO/OTA and Neer classifications in the assessment of fractures of the proximal ... of proximal humerus fractures: the contribution of the scapular and axillary radiographs J Shoulder Elbow Surg 1994, 3:24-7 Siebenrock KA, Gerber C: The reproducibility of classification of fractures...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20

... as: Hisamuddin NAR and Suhailan M: Evaluation of the diagnostic indices and clinical utility of qualitative cardiodetect®® test kit in diagnosis of ami within 12 hours of onset of chest pain in ... sensitivity of serial measurements of multiple markers nears 100%, whereas the sensitivity of a single measurement of any biomarker at the time of Hisamuddin NAR and Suhailan M International Journal of ... criteria for the definition of AMI includes a combination of two out of three characteristics composed of clinical history, a rise and fall of cardiac biomarkers, and ECG changes Despite being...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 23:20

... immobilisation is still the therapy of choice Scaphoid fractures are hard to immobilise, since nearly every motion of the hand, wrist and forearm causes movement of the bone and pressure on the fracture ... H, Vandvik PO: [Cast immobilisation for suspected scaphoid fractures] Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen 2009, 129(3):177-9 30 Langhoff O, Andersen JL: Consequences of late immobilization of scaphoid fractures ... most 70% of all scaphoid fractures [11] There is still no consensus regarding the different types of conventional radiographs Anterior-posterior and lateral radiographs should be standard, and at...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 06:20

... according to a standardized protocol The time of onset of the myocardial infarction was defined as the time of the onset of chest pain that lasted at least 20 minutes In cases of subjects with ... various levels and types of traffic and the onset of the myocardial infarction, as proposed by Mittleman and colleagues.14 With the use of descriptive analyses, we calculated the frequency of exposure ... distribution of times of onset of the myocardial infarctions over the day of the event, Panel B the time subjects spent in traffic on the day of the event and during the three days before it, and Panel...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 00:20

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Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:21

... age at the time of blood sampling, and for area of residence (rural or urban) The mean age of the prepatients at the time of blood sampling was 53 years (range 31–67 years) and of the controls, ... centre for rheumatology in the county of Västerbotten), and with a known date of onset of symptoms or signs of joint disease, was coanalysed with the registers of the cohorts from the Blood Bank ... of anti-CCP antibodies and SE gene carriage gave an OR of 66.8, while the presence of anti-CCP-antibodies alone gave an OR of 25.1 for the risk of developing RA compared with not having any of...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23

... One-third of the patients reported a history of either psoriasis, IBD or uveitis Two additional patients reported a history of both uveitis and IBD, and one patient reported psoriasis and IBD Of the ... changes and structural changes and the different localization of these changes Pathological changes of interest were defined as inflammation and structural changes including erosions, sclerosis and ... disappearance of the joint space in all sequences) Inflammation and sclerosis were scored on the iliac and sacral side of both SI joints separately Erosions and ankylosis were scored for the entire left and...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:20

... registers and matched for sex, age at the time of blood sampling and rural or urban residence A total of 368 controls (276 women and 92 men) were selected The mean age of the prepatients and of the ... individuals (69 women and 23 men) were identified; in each case the date of onset of symptoms of joint disease was available For every case (for instance, pre-patient), four controls were randomly selected ... (IgM, IgG and IgA) and HLA-SE gene carriage in individuals who had donated blood before development of RA The predictive effects of the genes and antibodies were then evaluated Materials and methods...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:20

... after the onset of the disease, the overexpression of CD40 precedes the onset of lupus and is sustained even during the course of the disease We therefore propose that the decreased ratio of CD80 ... production of cytokines, and increased T cell stimulatory capacity before and after the onset of the disease [14] In our study we analyzed DCs in the original NZM2410 and NZB-W/F1 mice before and after ... anti-DNA and analyzed the data RC participated in the design of the study and helped to draft the manuscript SG conceived of the study, and participated in its design and coordination, and helped...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:20

... studies to understand biological relevance of SULF1 SNPs in the development of ovarian cancer are needed to validate the role of SULF1 SNPs in age of disease onset and prognosis of ovarian cancer ... rs3802278 G>A and rs3087714 C>T; therefore, we also observed the significant trends in differences of age of disease onset among genotypes of rs3802278 G>A and rs3087714 C>T (Ptrend = 0.021 and 0.041, ... early age of onset and survival of ovarian cancer Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research 2011 30:5 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and take full advantage of: • Convenient...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20

... timing of pistil senescence in pea and Arabidopsis since the loss of pistil growth-responsiveness to GA in both species correlates with the onset of pistil senescence [4,5] The delay of the loss of ... senescence of ovules and valves, at and 12 DPA, respectively (Figure 4A and Additional file inset) GUS activity was first detected in the ovules at the basal zone of the ovary by the end of DPA Afterwards, ... patterns of genes of the ethylene biosynthesis and GUS activity in the ACS2:GUS line closely matched the unfertilised ovule senescence [4] In view of the fact that the up-regulation of those genes of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 11:20