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Treating Humans Worse Than Animals: Prison System Voices Decry Solitary

Treating Humans Worse Than Animals: Prison System Voices Decry Solitary
A corrections officer was arrested last week and charged with violating the civil rights of Jason Echevarria, a mentally ill Rikers prisoner who died after eating a packet of… Continue reading

Assessment of the Escalating Growth of Facet Joint Interventions in the Medicare Population in the United States From 2000 to 2011.

Assessment of the escalating growth of facet joint interventions in the medicare population in the United States from 2000 to 2011.

Pain Physician. 2013 Jul-Aug; 16(4): E365-78
Manchikanti L, Pampati V, Singh V, Falco FJ

Both the Office of… Continue reading

Effect of Weight Loss on the Severity of Psoriasis: A Randomized Clinical Study.

Effect of Weight Loss on the Severity of Psoriasis: A Randomized Clinical Study.

JAMA Dermatol. 2013 May 29; 1-7
Jensen P, Zachariae C, Christensen R, Geiker NR, Schaadt BK, Stender S, Hansen PR, Astrup A, Skov L

IMPORTANCE Psoriasis… Continue reading

Renal Ablation for Treatment of Hypertension Without Symplicity Catheter: The First Human Experience.

Renal ablation for treatment of hypertension without Symplicity catheter: The first human experience.

ARYA Atheroscler. 2013 Jan; 9(1): 82-8
Honarvar M, Amirpour A, Pourmoghaddas M

Hypertension (HTN) treatment has remained insufficient. New modalities such as “Symplicity method” for the… Continue reading

Periarticular Injection in Knee Arthroplasty Improves Quadriceps Function.

Periarticular Injection in Knee Arthroplasty Improves Quadriceps Function.

Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2013 Mar 21;
Chaumeron A, Audy D, Drolet P, Lavigne M, Vendittoli PA

BACKGROUND: The postoperative analgesic potential of periarticular anesthetic infiltration (PAI) after TKA is unclear… Continue reading

Measures of Participation Outcomes Related to Hand Use for 2- to 12-Year-Old Children With Disabilities: A Systematic Review.

Measures of participation outcomes related to hand use for 2- to 12-year-old children with disabilities: a systematic review.

Child Care Health Dev. 2013 Mar 5;
Chien CW, Rodger S, Copley J, McLaren C

Many interventions have been used to… Continue reading

Rehab Centers: Vestibular Rehabilitation.

Vestibular rehabilitation.

Filed under: Rehab Centers

Curr Opin Neurol. 2012 Dec 12;
Herdman SJ

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: This review examines the research from 2011 through 2012 on treatment efficacy in two common vestibular disorders – vestibular hypofunction and benign… Continue reading

Non-Stimulation Needle With External Indwelling Cannula for Brachial Plexus Block and Pain Management in 62 Patients Undergoing Upper-Limb Surgery.

Non-stimulation needle with external indwelling cannula for brachial plexus block and pain management in 62 patients undergoing upper-limb surgery.

Filed under: Depression Treatment

Int J Med Sci. 2012; 9(9): 766-71
Yu B, Zhang X, Sun P, Xie S, Pang… Continue reading

Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation: Gestational Naltrexone Ameliorates Fetal Ethanol Exposures Enhancing Effect on the Postnatal Behavioral and Neural Response to Ethanol.

Gestational naltrexone ameliorates fetal ethanol exposures enhancing effect on the postnatal behavioral and neural response to ethanol.

Filed under: Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation

Exp Biol Med (Maywood). 2012 Oct 8;
Youngentob SL, Kent PF, Youngentob LM

The association between… Continue reading