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Superficial peroneal nerve schwannoma presenting as lumbar radicular syndrome in a non-competitive runner
No full textINTRODUCTION: Running is one of the most common sports practices in the world due to the beneficial impact on the health,
despite the relatively high risk of getting injuries. In fact, running is one of the most common sports capable to induce overuse
injuries of the lower back and leg. In previous studies, the symptoms in the lower limb have been attributed to lumbosacral
degenerative pathology. When the symptoms are unclear, they must be studied with great attention by carrying out an accurate
process of screening and differential diagnosis.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: A 42-year-old non-competitive male runner who complained of left leg pain was referred to
a physiotherapist. He reported a continuous, deep, sharp, shooting pain of the left leg. The symptoms began one year earlier.
Symptoms worsened during prolonged driving and long distance running. The patient had been previously diagnosed with lumbar
radicular irradiation in the leg by a general practitioner. Initial management, in another physical therapy outpatient setting, was
without any improvement.
RESULTS: After surgical excision, symptoms gradually regressed shortly and the patient was referred to a physiotherapist in
order to fully recover and restore work and running activities.
CONCLUSION: This case report describes the history, assessment and treatment of a runner with a rare cause of leg pain. After
surgery excision, treatment focused on education and loading the tissues over many weeks through a graded program of loaded
exercises and running retraining
LOW BACK PAIN IN RUNNING: FROM PREVALENCE TO DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS
No full textGeneral organization of the research project
The main goal of this PhD research project is to investigate the relevance of LBP in running, the specific risk factor for onset LBP on runners, the differential diagnosis in runners with LBP and the real impact of these data on therapeutic strategies to adopt in physiotherapy. Different studies were conducted during the 3-year period of PhD training (2016-2019).
The results, relative discussions and implications are reported in the following chapters of the present dissertation as follows:
• Chapter I: A brief overview on running and etiology of Running-Related Injury;
• Chapter II: Analysis of The Prevalence and The Incidence of Low Back Pain in running;
• Chapter III: The knowledge, attitude and behaviour of Italian physiotherapists specialized in manual therapy towards Low Back Pain as Related Running Injuries;
• Chapter IV: The prevalence, behaviours and risk factors of Low back pain about Italian runners;
• Chapter V: The Differential Diagnosis in Physical Therapy Practice, through two review:
- The use of Red Flags in screening patients in physiotherapy. Narrative Review;
- The diagnostic value of Red Flags in Thoracolumbar pain: A Systematic Review;
• Chapter VI: The study of Red Flags identification as an important step to Screening for Referral Process in runners with Low Back Pain through four Cases Reports;
• Chapter VII: General Discussion and Implication in physical therapy, and future research
Pop Sound ed efficacia delle High Velocity low Amplitude Thrust: realtà clinica o mito?
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
The Effectiveness and Optimal Dose of Resistance Training in Patients With Subacute and Persistent Low Back-Related Leg Pain: A Systematic Review
No full textA subgroup of patients with low back pain (LBP) suffers from low back -related leg pain (LBLP), which can be classified as radicular pain, or somatic referred pain without nerve root involvement. LBLP is considered an obstacle to recovery and a strong negative prognostic factor for medium- and long-term disability. In this review, we aimed to investigate the effectiveness and optimal dose of resistance training (RT) in patients with subacute or persistent LBLP to provide clinical recommendations for practice. This systematic review was conducted by adhering to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and MetaAnalyses (PRISMA) guidelines and the recommendations of the Cochrane Collaboration. We conducted a literature search on PubMed, PEDro, Cochrane Library, Scopus, and Web of Science databases. Only randomized controlled trials (RCTs) involving patients >= 18 years of age were included. The risk of bias in the included studies was assessed using "the Cochrane Collaboration's tool for assessing risk of bias" (RoB) and the inter -rater agreement for full -text selection was evaluated using Cohen's Kappa (K). The search elicited a total of 4.537 records, and two RCTs involving a total of 196 participants were identified through a selection process based on title, abstract, and full -text assessment. Both studies had a low to moderate risk of bias. The inter -examiner concordance index for the selection of full text was excellent (K=1). RT seems to be an effective and safe intervention for patients with LBLP, but its long-term effectiveness, superiority over other types of exercise -based therapies, and optimal dosage still constitute a gray area in the literature
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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