European journal of physical and rehabilitation medicine
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Eur J Phys Rehabil Med · Dec 2011
Controlled Clinical TrialAdaptive physical activity and back pain: a non-randomised community-based intervention trial.
Back pain is a significant problem due to the high healthcare utilization, rising costs of care and low effectiveness of many current treatments. ⋯ This study suggests that a community-based APA program can improve back pain and health status in persons with chronic, non-specific low back pain. CLINICA REHABILITATION IMPACT: These findings highlight the potential for new approaches to manage chronic disease and disability by facilitating a healthy lifestyle and promoting physical activity through implementation of community-based exercise programs.
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Eur J Phys Rehabil Med · Dec 2011
Randomized Controlled TrialQuality of life improved by multidisciplinary back school program in patıents with chronic non-specific low back pain: a single blind randomized controlled trial.
A three and six months follow-up in a randomized controlled trial. ⋯ Our Back School program can be considered an effective treatment in people with chronıc non-specıfıc LBP.
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Most analytical studies found in literature only focus on specific aspects of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) gait and posture (joint range of motion, standing balance, variations of gait spatial-temporal parameters). Some of them analyze single cases and do not provide a comprehensive evaluation of locomotion. There are few studies about DMD gait patterns, most of them concerning small groups of patients, sometimes not homogeneous, in which the clinical manifestations of the next stages of DMD were present. ⋯ It was shown that instrumented gait analysis, being more sensitive than other clinical and functional assessment methods, allowed to quantify the very early modifications characterizing locomotion worsening in the first stage of the DMD.