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Rationale:
Dance as an intense kind of performance is associated with high loads on the musculoskeletal system. In particular, the lower limb is exposed to these high loads, which is reported by a high prevalence. Most dancers are affected by injuries during their careers, most in the lower limb. Typical risk factors for dancers include the compensatory turnout, hypermobility, and core stability. The correlation between these factors and lower limb injuries is not fully understood.
Purpose:
The aim of this study was to evaluate the correlation between lower limb injuries and the risk factors compensated turnout, hypermobility and core stability. Based on these results, hypotheses can be generated for further studies.
Methods:
This explorative pilot study was conducted at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences. All eligible participants were scheduled for a single research appointment if they fulfilled the inclusion criteria of dance experience (ballet, modern, contemporary or jazz) at least one year with dance lessons of at least 5 hours per week. Parameters for the correlation analysis were (1) core stability, measured by the motor control tests battery proposed by Luomajoki, (2) hypermobility, measured by the Beighton Score (3) compensated turnout, measured by the difference between functional turnout and external rotation of both hips, (4) dance hours per week, (5) dance experience in years, (6) professional dance experience in years and (7) dance style (ballet, modern, contemporary, jazz). These parameters were correlated with the numbers of lower limb injuries. Significance level was set at 90% because of the explorative character of the study with the purpose to generate hypotheses.
Results:
Sixteen female dancers with different levels of dance experience (mean 11.3 years) and dance lessons per week (mean 17.6 hours) fulfilled the inclusion criteria and participated in this study. Significant correlations with the numbers of lower limb injuries were found at core stability (rs=0.489, p=0.034, medium effect), dance hours per week (rs=0.459, p=0.048, medium effect) and professional dance experience in years (rs=0.396, p=0.093, medium effect). Two dance styles (modern dance: rs=0.388, p=0.101 and contemporary dance: rs=0.385, p=0.104) were close to the significance level.
Conclusions:
These results show correlations between core stability, dance hours per week, professional dance experience in years and lower limb injuries in dancers.
Due to the limitations of a small and heterogeneous sample size as well as the medium effects, these results should be interpreted with caution, but may provide a basis for further research to this topic in the field of dance research and can be helpful in generating research hypotheses.
Hintergrund:
Das Delir stellt die häufigste akute neuropsychiatrische Störung im Alter dar, dessen Inzidenz auf Intensivstationen laut Studienergebnissen von 20 bis 80 % reicht. Die Mortalitätsrate ist bedeutend höher im Vergleich zu nicht-Betroffenen. Des Weiteren führt das Delir zu häufigeren Komplikationen, einer längeren Liegedauer und einer längeren Be-atmungsdauer. Es ist bekannt, dass die Risiken und Folgeschäden zunehmen, je länger sich das Delir manifestiert.
Methodisches Vorgehen:
Um eine optimale pflegerische Versorgung für den Fall zu konzi-pieren, bedient man sich dem Prozess der Bildformung aus der Hermeneutik. Er ermöglicht die Deutung des Krankheitsgeschehens Delir im Kontext des Falles. Die Schritte der Bildformung führen zu einem handlungsorientierten Ergebnis und ermöglichen die Entwicklung der geeignetsten Interventionen. Dies erfolgt mittels einer Literatur- und Studienrecherche in den Suchmaschinen Scinos, Google Scholar und den Datenbanken Cochrane, CINAHL und Pubmed.
Ergebnisse:
Das Delir wurde mittels der CAM-ICU manifestiert und die Pflegediagnose Akute Verwirrtheit bestätigt. Die Interventionsansätze zur Behandlung von Menschen mit Verwir-rung nach Wolanin und Philipps (1981) dienen als Grundlage zur Interventionsauswahl. Die Interventionen fokussieren den Wiedergewinn der Kontrolle, die Milieugestaltung, die Stimulation der Sinneswahrnehmung und die Sicherheit für den Menschen.
Schlussfolgerungen:
Zur Delirbehandlung ist die Erfassung der präzipitierenden und prädisponierenden Faktoren von großer Bedeutung. Dennoch reicht die alleinige Ursachenbeseitigung nicht, sondern es sollte ein ganzheitlicher Ansatz gewählt werden. Dabei kann die Orientierung an Interventionsansätzen eine gute Stütze sein. Es ist bekannt, dass das Pflegepersonal noch immer ein Wissensdefizit aufweist, das behoben werden muss, um eine frühest-mögliche Erkennung und Behandlung des Delirs zu garantieren.
Talent scarcity in emerging economies such as India poses challenges for companies. Limited labour market participation among well-educated women has been observed. The reasons that professionals decide not to pursue a further corporate career remain unclear. By investigating their career decision making, this handout summerizes research results from a study that aims to highlight the contextual factors that impact those decisions.
Following a qualitative research design interviews with internationally experienced Indian business professionals show that rebellion against Indian societal and family expectations is essential to following a career path, especially for women. The current institutional framework of society and organizations serves as a legitimizing façade veiling traditional practices that hinder females’ careers.
Climate change is the biggest social challenge facing the globalised world. The aim of this paper is to investigate the requirements for governance structures in regional sustainability programmes against climate change.
The study is an explorative case study. It is based on a literature review and expert interviews. It also involves the participatory observation of working groups meetings, and a design thinking workshop.
In spite of their enormous importance, little is known about the institutional conditions of the regional governance of climate change projects in Germany.
For this reason, the research project focuses on the important aspect of networking and governance structures. Consequently, the investigation will contribute to answering the question of which institutional framework conditions can raise the likelihood of climate change projects having a sustainable effect.
The outcomes of the application
This research has not only practical implications for the single case. The exploration of the critical factors of success also offers other regions important food for thought in shaping their governance structures. In particular, the design thinking process and the business network in the District of Steinfurt offer valuable points of reference.
Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit sollen anhand der PEFA Bewertung, welche im Jahr 2018 stattfand
und die Qualität des öffentlichen Finanzmanagements der Stadt Osnabrück auf Grundlage von internationalen Standards darstellt, Handlungsempfehlungen zur Verbesserung der Transparenz erarbeitet werden. Die entwickelten Maßnahmen sollen den Grundsätzen der Open Government Partnership entsprechen und die Weiterentwicklung der Stadt Osnabrück,
insbesondere im Bereich der Transparenz, unterstützen. Sie sind somit dem übergeordneten
Begriff Open Data zuzuordnen. Um Handlungsempfehlungen zu erarbeiten, werden aus den insgesamt 31 Leistungsindikatoren mit den verschiedenen Dimensionen, die bewertet wurden, diejenigen ausgesucht, welche schlechter als A bewertet wurden. Die gesamten 31 Leistungsindikatoren wurden im Jahr 2018 von A bis D auf einer vierstufigen Ordinalskala bemessen. Anhand der Leistungsindikatoren, die Verbesserungsbedarf aufweisen, werden Maßnahmen entwickelt, die sowohl die Bewertung der Stadt Osnabrück in der PEFA-Analyse verbessern, als auch die Transparenz, das Bürgerengagement und die Modernisierung der Verwaltung im Mindesten unterstützen, wenn nicht sogar verbessern.
Despite normal neurological bedside and electrodiagnostic, some patients with non-specific neck arm pain (NSNAP) have heightened nerve mechanosensitivity upon neurodynamic testing [1, 2]. It remains however unclear whether this is associated with a minor nerve injury. The aim of this study was to evaluate potential differences in somatosensory function among patients with unilateral NSNAP with and without positive neurodynamic tests and healthy controls.
Quantitative sensory testing was performed in 40 patients with unilateral NSNAP; 23 with positive upper limb neurodynamic tests (ULNTPOS) and 17 with negative neurodynamic tests (ULNTNEG). The protocol comprised thermal and mechanical detection and pain thresholds as well as mechanical pain sensitivity, wind-up ratio and dynamic mechanical allodynia. All parameters were measured in the maximal pain area on the affected side as well as over the corresponding area on the unaffected side. Symptom severity, functional deficits, psychological parameters, quality of life and sleep disturbance were also recorded.
Fifty-seven percent of patients with NSNAP had positive neurodynamic tests despite normal bedside neurological integrity tests and nerve conduction parameters. Clinical profiles did not differ between patient groups. Somatosensory profiling revealed a more pronounced loss of function phenotype in ULNTPOS patients compared to healthy controls. Hyperalgesia (cold, heat and pressure pain) was present bilaterally in both NSNAP group. The ULNTNEG subgroup represented an intermediate phenotype between ULNTPOS patients and healthy controls in both thermal and pressure pain thresholds as well as mechanical detection thresholds.
In conclusion, heightened nerve mechanosensitivity was present in over half of patients with NSNAP. Our data suggest that NSNAP presents as a spectrum with some patients showing signs suggestive of a minor nerve dysfunction.
[1] Elvey RL. Physical evaluation of the peripheral nervous system in disorders of pain and dysfunction. J Hand Ther 1997;10:122-129.
[2] van der Heide B, Bourgoin C, Eils G, Garnevall B, Blackmore M. Test-retest reliability and face validity of a modified neural tissue provocation test in patients with cervicobrachial pain syndrome. J Man Manip Ther 2006;14:30-36.
Relationship of QST measures between low back and leg sites in people with radicular leg pain
(2019)
Background and Aims
Clinicians and researchers often rely on altered neurological integrity tests in the leg to identify radicular pain, however neurological integrity is often not tested in the low back region even in the presence of pain in this region. There have been suggestions that the low back pain itself could be neuropathic in nature in some patients (Baron et al., 2016). This study aims to explore the relationship between quantitative sensory testing (QST) measures in the leg and low back in participants with radicular leg pain to consider if sensory testing should be performed in both areas in clinical practice.
Methods
13 participants (mean age 48.2 SD 13.8, gender (female) 8) with radicular leg pain were recruited from National Health Service spinal clinics in the UK. After assessment with the clinician, a full QST profile was taken from each participant’s affected leg and low back. Z scores were calculated using data from age matched healthy controls. Correlations using Pearson’s if the data was normally distributed or Kendall’s Tau-b if not, were undertaken between QST scores of the low back and leg. Paired t tests or Mann Whitney tests were performed to assess differences in QST scores between the leg and low back regions.
Results
There were no significant correlations (P>0.05) in any of the QST measures between the leg and the low back regions. However, only vibration detection threshold measures showed statistically significant differences between the leg and low back (p<0.001), with the low back region showing greater loss of function (mean -2.84) than the leg (mean -0.61).
Conclusions
Significantly lower vibration thresholds were found in the back compared to the leg. This may suggest some alteration in posterior primary ramus large diameter afferent nerve function, and indicate that the low back pain itself may indeed have a neuropathic component. Our findings suggest that sensory testing of the lumbar spine may be advisable in this group of individuals. The small sample size means that these results must be taken with some caution, however these results warrant further investigation in people with radicular leg pain.
Background:
The evaluation of somatosensory dysfunction is important for diagnostics and may also have implications for prognosis and management. The current standard to evaluate somatosensory dysfunction is quantitative sensory testing (QST), which is expensive and time consuming. This study describes a low-cost and time-efficient clinical sensory test battery (CST), and evaluates its concurrent validity compared to QST.
Method: Three patient cohorts with carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS, n=86), non-specific neck and arm pain (NSNAP, n=40) and lumbar radicular pain/radiculopathy (LR n=26) were included. The CST consisted of 13 tests, each corresponding to a QST parameter and evaluating a broad spectrum of sensory functions using mechanical and thermal detection and pain thresholds and testing both loss and gain of function. Agreement rate, significance and strength of correlation between CST and QST were calculated.
Results: Several CST parameters (cold and warm detection, cold pain, mechanical detection, mechanical pain for loss of function, pressure pain) were significantly correlated with QST, with a majority demonstrating >60% agreement rates and weak to relatively strong correlations. However, agreement varied among cohorts. Gain of function parameters showed stronger correlation in the CTS and NSNAP cohort, whereas loss of function parameters performed better in the LR cohort. Other CST parameters (vibration detection, heat pain, mechanical pain for gain of function, windup ratio) did not significantly correlate with QST.
Conclusion: Some, but not all tests in the CST battery can detect somatosensory dysfunction as determined with QST. The CST battery may perform better when the somatosensory phenotype is more pronounced.
Geburtshilfe neu denken - Bericht zur Situation und Zukunft des Hebammenwesens in Deutschland
(2007)
Schwangerschaft, Geburt, Wochenbett und Stillzeit sind vitale Ereignisse im Leben einer Frau und einer Familie und primär physiologische. Deshalb sollten in der Gesundheitsversorgung diejenigen Leistungen und Handlungsansätze stärker berücksichtigt werden, die auf die Unterstützung und den Erhalt von Gesundheit gerichtet sind. Die Lebensphase von Schwangerschaft, Geburt, Wochenbett und Stillzeit stellt für die Eltern und insbesondere für die Mutter eine biographische Übergangssituation dar, die Einfluss auf ihre zukünftige gesundheitliche Verfassung und ihr gesundheitsrelevantes Verhalten hat. Sie eröffnet Möglichkeiten, gesundheitsförderliche Ressourcen zu entdecken und im familiären Leben weiterzuentwickeln. Die gesundheitliche Versorgung sollte von einer individuellen und durchgängigen Betreuung von Frauen und ihren Kindern geprägt sein.
Der Bericht macht mit seiner Analyse darauf aufmerksam, dass der Berufsstand der Hebamme für die Bereiche Gesundheitsförderung und Prävention ein Potenzial bietet, welches gesellschaftlich wesentlich mehr als bisher genutzt und gefördert werden muss.