Annals of physical and rehabilitation medicine
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To evaluate the effectiveness of a multidisciplinary consultation of diabetic foot in terms of ulcer healing rate and podiatric complications prevention. ⋯ Care and follow-up of diabetic patients with foot at risk in multidisciplinary consultation seem to be effective not only in curative treatment, but also in primary and secondary prevention. The economic benefits need to be evaluated.
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Ann Phys Rehabil Med · May 2010
ReviewNon-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for athletes: an update.
Sports medicine physicians often treat athletes in pain with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). However, there is a lack of high-quality evidence to guide NSAID use. ⋯ We do not recommend their use for muscle injuries, bone fractures (also stress fractures) or chronic tendinopathy. In all cases, if chosen, NSAID treatments should always be kept as short as possible and should take into account the specific type of injury, the level of dysfunction and pain.
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Ann Phys Rehabil Med · Mar 2010
The management of stroke patients. Conference of experts with a public hearing. Mulhouse (France), 22 October 2008.
The objective is to define as early as possible appropriate criteria for managing patients who have had a cerebrovascular accident (CVA), or stroke, beginning in the Neurovascular and Acute Care Services, in order to facilitate the patient's return home (or the equivalent of home) or continuing care in the most appropriate health care facility.
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Ann Phys Rehabil Med · Feb 2010
The importance of fear, beliefs, catastrophizing and kinesiophobia in chronic low back pain rehabilitation.
To evaluate fear, beliefs, catastrophizing and kinesiophobia in chronic low back pain patients about to begin a training programme in a rehabilitation centre. ⋯ Psychosocial factors are strongly associated with disability and altered quality of life in chronic low back pain patients. Future rehabilitation programs could optimizing patient management by taking these factors into account.
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Ann Phys Rehabil Med · Feb 2010
Sensitivity to change of the Quebec Back Pain Disability Scale and the Dallas Pain Questionnaire.
To study and compare the sensitivities to change of the French versions of the Quebec Back Pain Disability Scale (QBPDS) and the Dallas Pain Questionnaire (DPQ). ⋯ Our results show that the QBPDS was more sensitive to clinical change than the DPQ in a sample of chronic LBP sufferers. It would be interesting to assess this sensitivity in a population of acute LBP patients and to evaluate the long-term effects of a functional rehabilitation program on the DPQ's "social interest" domain.