The Journal of family practice
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► Right-side rib pain ► Radiating shoulder pain ► History of hypertension & hypercholesterolemia.
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Monitoring patients' health, mobility, mentation, and ability to maintain social connections can help you promote healthy aging for your older patients.
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Yes, it is somewhat effective. Exercise therapy-including general exercise, yoga, Pilates, and motor control exercise-has been shown to modestly decrease pain in chronic low back pain (LBP); levels of benefit in short- (≤ 3 months) and long- (≥ 1 year) term follow-up range from 4% to 15% improvement (strength of recommendation [SOR] A, based on a systematic review of randomized controlled trials [RCTs]). Exercise therapy may improve function and decrease work disability in subacute and chronic LBP, respectively (SOR A, based on a meta-analysis of RCTs). Exercise therapy has not been associated with improvement in acute LBP (SOR A, based on a meta-analysis of RCTs).
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This review, with handy tables, summarizes which vitamins offer proven benefits-and which don't.
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Any case of a chronic nonhealing lesion of the face should include this condition in the differential.