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Effectiveness of dry needling in patients with knee pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis
No full textAuthors: Mr. Johnson C.Y. Pang, Professor Amy S.N. Fu, Dr. Ryan K.L. Lee, Dr. Allan C.L. Fu
Corresponding author: Mr. Johnson C.Y. Pang and contact email: jpang@cihe,edu.hk
Abstract
Objectives
To assess the effectiveness of various approaches of dry needling (DN) for patients with knee pain and dysfunction
Search strategy
Six electronic databases: CINAHL Complete, Cochrane Library, EMBASE, Medline, PubMed, and PsycINFO were searched in November 2020 (registration number: CRD42021221419).
Screening
Risk of bias assessment and qualitative analysis were conducted by two independent reviewers using the PEDro scale.
Data management and reporting
Eight of 14 articles that met the inclusion criteria were high-quality manuscripts based on the PEDro scale. DN demonstrated positive short-term effects (from immediately after DN to <3 months) in pain reduction for both knee osteoarthritis (KOA) and patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS) (overall standardized mean difference [SMD]=-1.549, P=0.002). Subgroup analysis, however, revealed only significant improvement in PFPS (SMD=-3.435, P<0.001). At three months post-intervention, DN induced significant pain reduction in both KOA and PFPS (overall SMD=-0.916, P=0.022). Moreover, DN resulted in significant short-term improvement in function (overall SMD=6.069, P<0.001) in both KOA and PFPS. However, only PFPS showed a significant functional improvement in the subgroup analysis (SMD=6.089, P<0.001). At three months post-intervention, DN-induced functional improvement was significant in both groups (overall SMD=5.840, P<0.001), although only PFPS showed a significant improvement in the sub-group analysis (SMD=5.694, P=0.002). The outcomes of ultrasound (US)-guided DN on patients with knee pain are still unknown.
Conclusion
DN provides short-term benefits with respect to reducing pain and dysfunction for patients presenting with knee pain due to PFPS, but not KOA. Future research on US-guided DN for the treatment of knee pain is highly recommended
Effectiveness of dry needling in patients with knee pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis
No full textAuthors: Mr. Johnson C.Y. Pang, Professor Amy S.N. Fu, Dr. Ryan K.L. Lee, Dr. Allan C.L. Fu
Corresponding author: Mr. Johnson C.Y. Pang and contact email: jpang@cihe,edu.hk
Abstract
Objectives
To assess the effectiveness of various approaches of dry needling (DN) for patients with knee pain and dysfunction
Search strategy
Six electronic databases: CINAHL Complete, Cochrane Library, EMBASE, Medline, PubMed, and PsycINFO were searched in November 2020 (registration number: CRD42021221419).
Screening
Risk of bias assessment and qualitative analysis were conducted by two independent reviewers using the PEDro scale.
Data management and reporting
Eight of 14 articles that met the inclusion criteria were high-quality manuscripts based on the PEDro scale. DN demonstrated positive short-term effects (from immediately after DN to <3 months) in pain reduction for both knee osteoarthritis (KOA) and patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS) (overall standardized mean difference [SMD]=-1.549, P=0.002). Subgroup analysis, however, revealed only significant improvement in PFPS (SMD=-3.435, P<0.001). At three months post-intervention, DN induced significant pain reduction in both KOA and PFPS (overall SMD=-0.916, P=0.022). Moreover, DN resulted in significant short-term improvement in function (overall SMD=6.069, P<0.001) in both KOA and PFPS. However, only PFPS showed a significant functional improvement in the subgroup analysis (SMD=6.089, P<0.001). At three months post-intervention, DN-induced functional improvement was significant in both groups (overall SMD=5.840, P<0.001), although only PFPS showed a significant improvement in the sub-group analysis (SMD=5.694, P=0.002). The outcomes of ultrasound (US)-guided DN on patients with knee pain are still unknown.
Conclusion
DN provides short-term benefits with respect to reducing pain and dysfunction for patients presenting with knee pain due to PFPS, but not KOA. Future research on US-guided DN for the treatment of knee pain is highly recommended
Effectiveness of dry needling in patients with knee pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis
No full textAuthors: Mr. Johnson C.Y. Pang, Professor Amy S.N. Fu, Dr. Ryan K.L. Lee, Dr. Allan C.L. Fu
Corresponding author: Mr. Johnson C.Y. Pang and contact email: jpang@cihe,edu.hk
Abstract
Objectives
To assess the effectiveness of various approaches of dry needling (DN) for patients with knee pain and dysfunction
Search strategy
Six electronic databases: CINAHL Complete, Cochrane Library, EMBASE, Medline, PubMed, and PsycINFO were searched in November 2020 (registration number: CRD42021221419).
Screening
Risk of bias assessment and qualitative analysis were conducted by two independent reviewers using the PEDro scale.
Data management and reporting
Eight of 14 articles that met the inclusion criteria were high-quality manuscripts based on the PEDro scale. DN demonstrated positive short-term effects (from immediately after DN to <3 months) in pain reduction for both knee osteoarthritis (KOA) and patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS) (overall standardized mean difference [SMD]=-1.549, P=0.002). Subgroup analysis, however, revealed only significant improvement in PFPS (SMD=-3.435, P<0.001). At three months post-intervention, DN induced significant pain reduction in both KOA and PFPS (overall SMD=-0.916, P=0.022). Moreover, DN resulted in significant short-term improvement in function (overall SMD=6.069, P<0.001) in both KOA and PFPS. However, only PFPS showed a significant functional improvement in the subgroup analysis (SMD=6.089, P<0.001). At three months post-intervention, DN-induced functional improvement was significant in both groups (overall SMD=5.840, P<0.001), although only PFPS showed a significant improvement in the sub-group analysis (SMD=5.694, P=0.002). The outcomes of ultrasound (US)-guided DN on patients with knee pain are still unknown.
Conclusion
DN provides short-term benefits with respect to reducing pain and dysfunction for patients presenting with knee pain due to PFPS, but not KOA. Future research on US-guided DN for the treatment of knee pain is highly recommended
Disabilities, the Cybernetic Body, and Global Risk: Posthuman Representation in Kung Fu Hustle
No full text通常認為，《功夫》代表導演周星馳個人事業的一個新階段，由外人較難接近的「港式」文化趣味轉而以較寬廣的全球市場為吸引對象。本文想由後人類的觀點來解釋這個全球「轉向」。首先，片中的失能議題不僅直接呈現在敘事內容，也可以說已經滲透到許多武俠敘事套式的身體想像中。這表示《功夫》是在後人類，特別是增能輔助觀點下對武俠敘事傳統進行省思。本文將由兩方面發展這一觀察。首先，本文引用後人類理論來探討《功夫》的武術作為身體控御技術如何重建個體對他界的存認，點出個體可以在跨越人、非人的控御框架下發展以互卸為主的對外應接模式，形成機器控御學轉向。其次，《功夫》的後人類省思顯然呼應了全球化時期「風險社會」的興起。在風險社會裡，無規律入侵成為常態，對他界過度存認的要求使主體對身體機器產生新感受。近年武俠類型的「再興」反映了主體演練這種新感受的需求。另一方面，《功夫》的後人類表述突顯了互卸面向的重要，涉及的已經不僅是新感受的演練。由此著手不但可以釐清該片票房成功的因素，也有助於說明該片除了是熱鬧好看的擬仿之外，也含有高度創新的文化意義。It is often said that Kung Fu Hustle started a new phase in Stephen Chow's career characterized by a widening of appeal to include global audiences. This essay proposes that this global “turn” is best explained by considering the posthuman representation of the film. It begins with a consideration of disabilities in the film, a concern not only explicitly represented but essential to the physical imaginary invoked in many of its martial arts topoi, constituting a posthuman or at least prosthetic questioning of the martial arts narrative tradition. This point is then developed in two directions. First, the perspective of posthuman studies is used to establish how reliance on an awareness of the outside points to a cybernetic turn in martial arts as a technology of embodiment, forming a new “interpassive” receptiveness to the machinic alteration or alternation of the human and its environment. Second, there are obvious affinities between this posthuman receptiveness and the rise of “risk society” in the era of globalization. In a risk society, the regular intrusion of randomness into order and security calls upon the subject to find new ways of dealing with the excessive presence of the machinic body and its outside. The recent resurgence of the martial arts genre points to a need to engage with this presence. On the other hand, the posthuman dimension of interpassivity envisioned by Kung Fu Hustle exceeds current accounts of the risk society. A reading of this dimension of the film would not only shed light on its success but help explain why it breaks new ground beyond being a hilarious parody of the old
ArF-line high transmittance attenuated phase shift mask blanks using amorphous Al2O3–ZrO2–SiO2 composite thin films for the 65-, 45- and 32-nm technology nodes
No full textVariations of soil radon and thoron concentrations in a fault zone and prospective earthquakes in SW Taiwan
No full textAn automatic station for soil gas monitoring was set up on an active fault zone of SW Taiwan.After more than one year of
continuous measurements,some spike-like anomalous high radon and thoron concentrations could be observed.A similar soil
radon spectrum was also obtained from an independent monitoring station,which was only 100 away.These anomalous
peaks usually occurred a few days or weeks before the earthquakes (M L 4 .5 ).This indicates that variations of both soil
radon and thoron can serve as useful tools for earthquake surveillance,esp.at fault zones
A Study on Ueda-akinari's Adapting Technique and Discriminatory Attitude Against Confucianism-Buddhism in Siramine
No full text日本志怪小說的傑作《雨月物語》，為江戶文?巨擎上田秋成以「翻案」(仿作)中日古典文學的手法寫成。本論文是以《雨月物語》的首篇作品〈白峰〉為探討對象。
〈白峰〉的內容是描述被迫遜位的悲劇天子崇德上黃化為厲鬼出現於原本武士後來出家的西行法師面前，為了將自己生前發動的叛亂事件正當化，針對儒家的禪讓‧篡位思想，和西行法師在黑夜的深山裏進行辯論的故事。根據兩人辯論的內容，學者之間傾向於將本篇視為日本「國學者」上田秋成的排儒黜佛論。
本論文首先比較〈白峰〉及其典據，繼之闡述作品主題，探討了一般所謂的秋成的排儒黜佛論，並提示不同的觀點。This dissertation is to discuss the first chapter of Ugetsu-monogatari, one of Ueda-akinari’s outstanding collections of eweird and mysterious stories in japan.
Ugetsu-monogatari consists of nine stories, and the first story is Siramine. It tells the tragic story of Sutokku- joko, an emperor forced to abdicate, whose malicious spirit argues with Saigyo-hosi about “usurping the thoughts of Confucianism, in order to legitimate the rebellion he arose when alive. According to the content of their debate, most scholars tend to regard this story as Ueda-akinari’s discriminatory attitude against Confucianism-Buddhism; the author will discuss this unfriendly criticism in this chapter.
In this dissertation , the author first compares Siramine with its originals, discusses its main points, the so-called discriminatory attitude against Confucianism-Buddhism, and gives hints of opposite viewpoints
Oxidized Frying Oil up-regulates Hepatic Acyl CoA Oxidase and Cytochrome P-450 4 A1 Genes in rats and activate PPAR-α
No full textCrossing between the Immortal World and the Mortal World in the Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio: Reflection on the Return of Liu Chen and Ruan Zhao and Investigation into Sentiments and the Dao
No full text《聊齋誌異》多篇揭現對仙境的營塑及探求，雜糅神話思維、宗教情操、故實承衍、倫理關懷、生命叩問及美學呈現，在在展呈蒲松齡對超拔凡俗、修行得道的壯闊想像及深切嚮往，也揭現蒲松齡對生命歸趨的多向探索，涵括情緣繫念、事親盡孝、宗嗣傳承、功名舉業及仙凡兩難的價值抉擇。本文析論《聊齋》所揭仙鄉∕人境流轉往復的動態進程，除了提挈六朝「劉、阮模式」的多樣演繹，更進而探究情緣、道念如何相持與相拒？如何超越世網纏縛，思辨功名的執守與捨離？乃至生命如何流通、重探自我？藉由仙凡兩端的迂迴辯證及仙凡異境的互融互攝，以彰明其周折婉曲之處所寄寓的人性底蘊及多重啟悟。Many tales in the Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio involve portraits and explorations of the immortal world, where myths, religions, legends, ethics, self-reflections and aesthetics are neatly interwoven. All these themes reveal the author Pu Song-Ling’s imagination, his craving for immortality and the Dao, and his multi-faceted inquiries of life, including love, filial piety, succession of heirs, pursuit of fame and honor, and the dilemma of choosing between immortality and mortality. The present paper is intended to analyze the incessant journeys between the immortal world and the mortal world in the Strange Stories. Employing the Liu-Ruan model of the Six Dynasties, the paper investigates how one deals with his/her sentiments and thoughts of the Dao, how he/she transcends the boundary of the mundane life and contemplates whether to grasp or abandon fame and honor, and how his/her life evolves and explores itself. Through the reciprocal relationship between the immortal world and the mortal world, the Strange Stories sheds light on human nature and realization
Characteristics and trends of orthopedic publications between 2000 and 2009
No full textBackground: This study was undertaken to investigate the trends of orthopedic publications during the last decade, and to document the country of origin, journal, funding source, and language of contribution using PubMed. Methods: Orthopedic articles published between 2000 and 2009 were retrieved from PubMed using the following search terms: orthopaedic[Affiliation] AND (2000/1/1[PDAT]: 2009/12/31[PDAT]) and orthopedic[Affiliation] AND (2000/1/1[PDAT]: 2009/12/31[PDAT]). The articles were downloaded in XML file format, which contained the following information: article title, author names, journal names, publication dates, article types, languages, authors' affiliations and funding sources. These information was extracted, sorted, and rearranged using the database's management software. We investigated the annual number of published orthopedic articles worldwide and the annual rate of increase. Furthermore, the country of publication origin, journal, funding source, and language of contribution were also investigated. Results: A total of 46,322 orthopedic articles were published and registered in PubMed in the last 10 years. The worldwide number of published orthopedic articles increased from 2,889 in 2000 to 6,909 in 2009, showing an annual increase of 384.6 articles, or an annualized compound rate of 10.2%. The United States ranked highest in the number of published orthopedic articles, followed by Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, and the Republic of Korea. Among the orthopedic articles published worldwide during the last 10 years, 37.9% pertained studies performed in the United States. Fifty-seven point three percent (57.3%) of articles were published in journals established in the United States. Among the published orthopaedic articles, 4,747 articles (10.2%) disclosed financial support by research funds, of which 4,688 (98.8%) articles utilized research funds from the United States. Most articles were published in English (97.2%, 45,030 articles). Conclusions: The number of published orthopedic articles has been increasing over the last decade. The number of orthopedic articles, journals publication, and funding sources were dominated by research conducted in the United States, while share and growth of Asian countries including Japan, the Republic of Korea, and China were notable. © 2011 by The Korean Orthopaedic Association.Y
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