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Houston, We Have a Solution
As NASA gets serious about sending manned missions to Mars, it’s tempting to think, How hard could it be? After all, we put astronauts on the Moon more than half a century ago. But traveling to the Moon versus Mars isn’t quite as similar as we might think. For starters, the trip to the moon… →
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Hospital-Level Care at Home for Adults Living in Rural Settings: A Randomized Clinical Trial
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: In this randomized clinical trial of home hospital care in rural settings, cost and readmission were unchanged while patient activity and experience improved. Late transfer home likely attenuated the intervention’s effect. →
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Magnetic seed versus guidewire-based breast cancer localization with magnetic lymph node detection: cost-minimization analysis
CONCLUSION: In this predefined health economic analysis of an RCT, the use of magnetic seeds resulted in incremental cost containment, despite the increased cost of the device. Contributing factors included shorter localization time, shorter operating time, and process streamlining. →
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Impacts of Experimental Knee Pain on Gait Biomechanics and Pain Sensitivity: A Randomised Crossover Trial of Young and Pain-Free Volunteers
CONCLUSION: Changes in PPTs and propulsion impulse were observed after the knee pain induction. Peak knee pain variability can be partly explained using a combination of biomechanics, pain sensitivity and cognitive factors. This forms the basis for a targeted clinical evaluation of patients. →
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Durability (Not Growth) Will Define AI Winners
Happy Thanksgiving to all who are celebrating! We’re grateful for you all being part of GTMfund through our media platform, GTMnow There are many independent perspectives shared through content. We read a ton of them, and there’s connective tissue between some that reveal a broader macro and message. This week, we’re highlighting a few pieces… →
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The effect of posture and breathing exercises applied with telerehabilitation on respiratory functions, exercise capacity, fatigue, and psychosocial factors in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients
CONCLUSION: It was concluded that exercise with telerehabilitation in COPD patients is effective on quality of life, exercise capacity, fatigue, psychosocial factors and can be used as a treatment approach. →
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Effectiveness of movement system impairment (MSI) based classification treatment on clinical outcomes among subjects with tibiofemoral hypomobility syndrome: A randomized controlled trial
CONCLUSION: The MSI treatment model effectively treats subjects with tibiofemoral hypomobility syndrome and shows greater improvement than standard physical therapy care. These findings suggest that MSI-based treatment can contribute to global health efforts to minimize musculoskeletal conditions. Further studies to bring long-term follow-up and other physical performance outcomes. →
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Effect of flywheel resistance training on sleep quality in older women: A randomized controlled trial
CONCLUSION: Eight weeks of intervention did not affect objective sleep measures but improved subjective sleep quality, particularly in the FRT group. →
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Acute effects of an aerobic dual task on processing speed and attention in Parkinson’s disease: a randomised controlled trial study
CONCLUSIONS: The DT developed on the MOTOmed cycling device is a safe intervention for people diagnosed with PD (stage 2-3) with or without mild or moderate cognitive impairment. This intervention, associated with a cognitive intervention, seems to show improvements in the speed of information processing. →
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Effects of hydrotherapy kinetic chain exercises on muscle coactivation, pain management, and quality of life in men with chronic low back pain. Randomized clinical trial
CONCLUSION: The findings of this study underscore the importance of addressing the impaired coactivation of the transverse abdominal and multifidus muscles in men suffering from chronic non-specific low back pain. By implementing water kinetic chain exercises, we can effectively enhance muscle coactivation, which may lead to significant reductions in pain and improvements in overall quality… →
