Perceptions on and roadblocks to implementation of standardized nomenclature in radiation oncology: A survey from TG-263U1
CONCLUSIONS: While there is strong support and belief in the benefit of standardized nomenclature, the widespread adoption of TG-263 has been hindered by the effort needed by staff for implementation. Feedback from the survey is being utilized to drive the focus of the update efforts and create tools to facilitate easier adoption of TG-263.PMID:38689502 | DOI:10.1002/acm2.14359 (Source: Health Physics)
Source: Health Physics - May 1, 2024 Category: Physics Authors: Elizabeth L Covington Krithika Suresh Brian M Anderson Margaret Barker Kathryn Dess Jeremy G Price Alexander Moncion Marissa J Vaccarelli Lakshmi Santanam Ying Xiao Charles Mayo Source Type: research
Effects of Isometric Quadriceps Muscle Exercise with Visual and Auditory Feedback at 1 Year after Total Knee Arthroplasty
CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that performing isometric quadriceps exercise with visual and auditory feedback using the quadriceps training machine has good effects, such as pain reduction, physical function improvement, exercise tolerance, and increased physical activity at 1 year after TKA.PMID:38690528 | PMC:PMC11057392 | DOI:10.1298/ptr.E10260 (Source: Health Physics)
Source: Health Physics - May 1, 2024 Category: Physics Authors: Yasutaka Kondo Yoshihiro Yoshida Takashi Iioka Hideki Kataoka Junya Sakamoto Yuichiro Honda Atsushi Nawata Minoru Okita Source Type: research
Family-centered Care for Children with Disabilities in Japan-the Origin and Future of the "Ryouiku"
Phys Ther Res. 2024;27(1):1-5. doi: 10.1298/ptr.R0029. Epub 2024 Mar 12.ABSTRACTFamily-centered care is recommended as the best practice in pediatric physiotherapy. It is a philosophy that pediatric physiotherapists should be familiar with, as it relates to the health of the child as well as the family. However, family-centered care has not been adequately taught in physiotherapy education in Japan. The term "Ryouiku" was coined in 1940 in Japan. The concept of the Ryouiku is essentially Evidence-Based Medicine and is the very essence of family-centered care with a focus on function. By re-thinking the Ryouiku and applying...
Source: Health Physics - May 1, 2024 Category: Physics Authors: Nobuaki Himuro Source Type: research
Development and Validation of a Decision Tree Analysis Model for Predicting Home Discharge in a Convalescent Ward: A Single Institution Study
CONCLUSION: The predictive model demonstrated more than moderate predictive accuracy, suggesting its utility in clinical practice. Grooming emerged as a variable with the highest explanatory power for determining home discharge.PMID:38690531 | PMC:PMC11057389 | DOI:10.1298/ptr.E10267 (Source: Health Physics)
Source: Health Physics - May 1, 2024 Category: Physics Authors: Dai Nakaizumi Shingo Miyata Keita Uchiyama Ikki Takahashi Source Type: research
Estimation of Vertical Ground Reaction Force during Single-leg Landing Using Two-dimensional Video Images and Pose Estimation Artificial Intelligence
CONCLUSION: The results of this study indicate that peak VGRF estimation using 2D video images and pose estimation AI is useful for the clinical assessment of single-leg landing.PMID:38690532 | PMC:PMC11057390 | DOI:10.1298/ptr.E10276 (Source: Health Physics)
Source: Health Physics - May 1, 2024 Category: Physics Authors: Tomoya Ishida Takumi Ino Yoshiki Yamakawa Naofumi Wada Yuta Koshino Mina Samukawa Satoshi Kasahara Harukazu Tohyama Source Type: research
Construction of BaTiO < sub > 3 < /sub > -TiO < sub > 2 < /sub > hollow sphere heterojunctions for enhanced microwave dynamic therapy in cancer treatment
Phys Chem Chem Phys. 2024 May 1. doi: 10.1039/d3cp05472a. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTCancer is one of the primary health concerns among humans due to its high incidence rate and lack of effective treatment. Currently, medical techniques to achieve the precise elimination of local cancer lesions with negligible damage to normal tissues are still intensely desired. Herein, we synthesized BaTiO3-TiO2 hollow spheres (BTHSs) for use in microwave dynamic therapy (MWDT) for cancer. Under UV irradiation, BTHSs can mediate the production of multiple reactive oxygen species (ROS), mainly 1O2, which results in a rapid photocatalyt...
Source: Health Physics - May 1, 2024 Category: Physics Authors: Yaodong Chen Fangyu Cai Yadong Liu Wenwen Fan Jingjie Wang Guolin Yin Jiayi Ren Jingwei Cao Yongming Fu Jie Chen Source Type: research
Recommendation for reducing the crystalline lens exposure dose by reducing imaging field width in cone-beam computed tomography for image-guided radiation therapy: an anthropomorphic phantom study
Radiol Phys Technol. 2024 Apr 30. doi: 10.1007/s12194-024-00810-0. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) for image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) of the head, we evaluated the exposure dose reduction effect to the crystalline lens and position-matching accuracy by narrowing one side (X2) of the X-ray aperture (blade) in the X-direction. We defined the ocular surface dose of the head phantom as the crystalline lens exposure dose and measured using a radiophotoluminescence dosimeter (RPLD, GD-352 M) in the preset field (13.6 cm) and in each of the fields when blade X2 aperture was reduced in ...
Source: Health Physics - May 1, 2024 Category: Physics Authors: Tatsuya Yoshida Koji Sasaki Tomoki Hayakawa Toshiyuki Kawadai Takako Shibasaki Yoshiyuki Kawasaki Source Type: research
The Effect of Total Knee Replacement on Dual-Task Gait Performance in Older Adults
CONCLUSION: The absence of an effect of TKR on gait DTCs can potentially underlie increased fall risk after TKR. Results from this study emphasize the significance of balance as a measure and focal point for rehabilitation after TKR.IMPACT: This study contributes to our understanding of the attentional cost of walking in people before and after TKR, as well as to factors associated with it. Results from this work can assist formulation of rehabilitation programs for people with knee osteoarthritis.PMID:38691445 | DOI:10.1093/ptj/pzae067 (Source: Health Physics)
Source: Health Physics - May 1, 2024 Category: Physics Authors: Ibrahim Azzam Nimrod Rozen Amir Eliyahu Dan Dabby Avi Elbaz Amit Mor Tal Krasovsky Source Type: research
The effect of graded activity and pain education after lumbar spinal fusion on sedentary behavior 3 and 12 months post-surgery: a randomized controlled trial
CONCLUSION: Compared with usual care, GAPE had no effect on short-term changes in sedentary behaviour but GAPE had a statistically, but possibly not clinically effect on sedentary behaviour 12 months after LSF. Further, the behavioural intervention was safe to perform.PMID:38685291 | DOI:10.1016/j.apmr.2024.04.005 (Source: Health Physics)
Source: Health Physics - April 30, 2024 Category: Physics Authors: Heidi Tegner Nanna Rolving Marius Henriksen Rachid Bech-Azeddine Mari Lundberg Bente Appel Esbensen Source Type: research
Effect of Pressure on the Conformational Landscape of Human γD-Crystallin from Replica Exchange Molecular Dynamics Simulations
J Phys Chem B. 2024 Apr 29. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.4c00178. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTHuman γD-crystallin belongs to a crucial family of proteins known as crystallins located in the fiber cells of the human lens. Since crystallins do not undergo any turnover after birth, they need to possess remarkable thermodynamic stability. However, their sporadic misfolding and aggregation, triggered by environmental perturbations or genetic mutations, constitute the molecular basis of cataracts, which is the primary cause of blindness in the globe according to the World Health Organization. Here, we investigate the impact of high ...
Source: Health Physics - April 30, 2024 Category: Physics Authors: Arlind Kacirani Bet ül Uralcan Tiago S Domingues Amir Haji-Akbari Source Type: research
Long COVID: A major public health issue
Am J Phys Med Rehabil. 2024 Apr 18. doi: 10.1097/PHM.0000000000002486. Online ahead of print.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38686827 | DOI:10.1097/PHM.0000000000002486 (Source: Health Physics)
Source: Health Physics - April 30, 2024 Category: Physics Authors: Svetlana Blitshteyn Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez Source Type: research
Automatic assessment of DWI-ASPECTS for acute ischemic stroke based on deep learning
CONCLUSIONS: This study proposed an automated model for ASPECTS scoring of patients with acute ischemic stroke based on DWI images. Experimental results show that the method of segmentation first and then classification is feasible. Our method has the potential to assist physicians in the Alberta Stroke Program with early CT scoring and clinical stroke diagnosis.PMID:38687043 | DOI:10.1002/mp.17101 (Source: Health Physics)
Source: Health Physics - April 30, 2024 Category: Physics Authors: Ting Fang Zhuoyun Jiang Yuxi Zhou Shouqiang Jia Jiaqi Zhao Shengdong Nie Source Type: research
Associations between back pain incidence, and physical activity and sedentary behaviours: A prospective cohort study with data from over 365,000 participants
CONCLUSION: Physical activity was related to a reduced risk of back pain incidence (except over-high vigorous physical activity). Substituting sedentary behaviours with physical activities reduced the risk of future back pain.PMID:38687159 | DOI:10.2519/jospt.2024.12338 (Source: Health Physics)
Source: Health Physics - April 30, 2024 Category: Physics Authors: Yong-Hui Zhang Hao-Ran Xu Qi-Hao Yang Shu-Hao Du Xuan Su Yi-Li Zheng Meng-Si Peng Xue-Qiang Wang Source Type: research
Boosting treatment outcomes via the patient-practitioner relationship, treatment-beliefs or therapeutic setting. A systematic review with meta-analysis of contextual effects in chronic musculoskeletal pain
CONCLUSION: Whilst evidence gaps exist, per current evidence it may not be possible to achieve meaningful benefit for patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain by manipulating the context of non-pharmacological and non-surgical treatments. TRIAL REGISTRATION: This systematic review was prospectively registered in PROSPERO (registration number: CRD42023391601).PMID:38687160 | DOI:10.2519/jospt.2024.12259 (Source: Health Physics)
Source: Health Physics - April 30, 2024 Category: Physics Authors: Tobias Saueressig Patrick J Owen Hugo Pedder Nitin Kumar Arora Marieke Simons Svenja Kaczorowski Clint T Miller Lars Donath Daniel L Belavy Source Type: research
Free energy of a two-liquid system of charge carriers in strongly coupled electron and phonon fields and common nature of three phases in hole-doped cuprates
J Phys Condens Matter. 2024 Apr 30. doi: 10.1088/1361-648X/ad459d. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTHole-doped cuprates exhibit partially coexisting pseudogap, charge ordering and superconductivity; we show that there exists a class of systems in which they have a single nature as it has recently been supposed. Since the charge-ordered phase exhibits large frozen deformation of the lattice, we develop a method for calculating the phase diagram of a system with strong long-range (Frӧhlich) electron-phonon interaction. Using a variational approach, we calculate the free energy of a two-liquid system of carriers with cuprate-li...
Source: Health Physics - April 30, 2024 Category: Physics Authors: Anna Myasnikova Stanislava V Doronkina Roland R Arutyunyan Aues Dzhantemirov Source Type: research
