Effects of Creatine Supplementation after 20 Minutes of Recovery in a Bench Press Exercise Protocol in Moderately Physically Trained Men by Luis Maicas-Pérez, Juan Hernández-Lougedo, Juan Ramón Heredia-Elvar, Blanca Pedauyé-Rueda, Ana María Cañuelo-Márquez, Manuel Barba-Ruiz, María del Carmen Lozano-Estevan, Pablo García-Fernández, José Luis Maté-Muñoz

“…Methods: Fifty young and healthy individuals were randomly assigned to a creatine group (<i>n</i> = 25) or a placebo group (<i>n</i> = 25). Three exercise sessions were carried out, with one week of rest between them. …”
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Evaluation and Management of Dyspnea in Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and Generalized Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder: Protocol for a Pilot and Feasibility Randomized Controll... by Dmitry Rozenberg, Noor Al Kaabi, Encarna Camacho Perez, Sahar Nourouzpour, Laura Lopez-Hernandez, Laura McGillis, Ewan Goligher, W Darlene Reid, Chung-Wai Chow, Clodagh M Ryan, Dinesh Kumbhare, Ella Huszti, Kateri Champagne, Satish Raj, Susanna Mak, Daniel Santa Mina, Hance Clarke, Nimish Mittal

“…IMT will comprise 2 daily sessions of 30 breaths for 5 days per week, with IMT progressing from 20% to 60% of the baseline maximal inspiratory pressure (MIP) over an 8-week period. …”
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Impact on physical function of the +AGIL Barcelona program in community-dwelling older adults with cognitive impairment: an interventional cohort study by Cristina Arnal, L Monica Pérez, Luís Soto, Álvaro Casas Herrero, Joan Ars, Sonia Baró, Francisco Díaz, Araceli Abilla, M Belén Enfedaque, Matteo Cesari, Marco Inzitari

“…The physical activity program showed high adherence (87.6% attended ≥ 75% sessions). At three months, there was a clinically and statistically significant improvement in the Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB) and its subcomponents in the whole sample and after stratification for CI [CI group improvements: SPPB = 1.1 (SD = 1.8) points, gait speed (GS) = 0.05 (SD = 0.13) m/s, Chair stand test (CST)=-2.6 (SD = 11.4) s. …”
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A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial on the Effectiveness and Safety of Pharmacopuncture for Chronic Lower Back Pain by Park KS, Kim C, Kim JW, Kim S, Lee JY, Lee YJ, Lee J, Kim MJ, Choi YE, Yang C, Han CH, Ha IH

“…Participants with chronic LBP were randomly assigned at a 1:1 ratio using block randomization to undergo 10 sessions of pharmacopuncture or PT over 5 weeks and followed up for 25 weeks. …”
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Exploring Current Practices, Needs, and Barriers for Expanding Distributed Medical Education and Scholarship in Psychiatry: Protocol for an Environmental Scan Using a Formal Inform... by Lara Hazelton, Raquel da Luz Dias, Mandy Esliger, Philip Tibbo, Nachiketa Sinha, Anthony Njoku, Satyendra Satyanarayana, Sanjay Siddhartha, Peggy Alexiadis-Brown, Faisal Rahman, Hugh Maguire, Gerald Gray, Mark Bosma, Deborah Parker, Owen Connolly, Adewale Raji, Alexandra Manning, Alexa Bagnell, Vincent Israel Opoku Agyapong

“…About 120 psychiatrists from 8 administrative health zones of both provinces will be invited to complete an anonymous web-based survey with questions about demographics, participants' experience and interest in undergraduate, postgraduate, and continuing medical education, research and scholarly activities, quality improvement, and knowledge translation. Focus group sessions will be conducted with a purposive sample of psychiatrists to collect qualitative data on their perspectives on the expansion of DME. …”
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Cognitive rehabilitation program in patients with multiple sclerosis: A pilot study by R.M. Jiménez-Morales, Y. Broche-Pérez, Y. Macías-Delgado, C. Sebrango, S. Díaz-Díaz, R. Castiñeira-Rodriguez, F.J. Pérez-González, C. Forn

“…The study aims to explore the effects of a cognitive rehabilitation program comprising a combination of cognitive and physical exercises, as well as group sessions to improve cognitive performance, emotional state, and cognitive reserve index. …”
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Analyzes of the ICF Domain of Activity After a Neurological Early Mobility Protocol in a Public Hospital in Brazil by Fernanda dos Santos Lima, Vinícius da Silva Carvalho, Inaiacy Souto Bittencourt, Ana Paula Fontana

“…ALs also were evaluated in the first and last sessions of NEMP. Thereafter, the Hospitalized Patient Mobility Questionnaire (HPMQ) was applied to identify whether patients needed assistance during the performance of hospital activities as well as the Modified Barthel Index (MBI). …”
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Effects of β-alanine supplementation during a 5-week strength training program: a randomized, controlled study by José Luis Maté-Muñoz, Juan H. Lougedo, Manuel V. Garnacho-Castaño, Pablo Veiga-Herreros, María del Carmen Lozano-Estevan, Pablo García-Fernández, Fernando de Jesús, Jesús Guodemar-Pérez, Alejandro F. San Juan, Raúl Domínguez

“…The training program consisted of 3 sessions per week in which three different leg exercises were conducted as a circuit (back squat, barbell step ups and loaded jumping lunges). …”
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Adherence to RUSA’s Guidelines for Virtual Reference Services is Below Expected in Academic Libraries. A Review of: Platt, J. & Benson, P. (2010). Improving the virtual reference e... by Annie M. Hughes

“…<br><b>Design</b> – Qualitative research study evaluating virtual reference chat sessions using RUSA’s Guidelines for Virtual Reference & User Services.…”
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Involvement of maternal grandmother and teenage mother in intervention to reduce pacifier use: a randomized clinical trial by Elsa Regina Justo Giugliani, Leandro Meirelles Nunes, Roberto Mário Silveira Issler, Lilian Cordova do Espírito Santo, Luciana Dias de Oliveira

“…Six breastfeeding counseling sessions, including the recommendation to avoid the use of a pacifier, were delivered at the maternity ward and subsequently at the teenagers’ homes, at seven, 15, 30, 60, and 120 days postpartum. …”
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Presence of D4 dopamine receptors in human prefrontal cortex: a postmortem study Presença de receptores dopaminérgicos D4 em córtex cerebral humano: um estudo post-mortem by Donatella Marazziti, Antonio Lucacchini, Stefano Baroni, Laura Betti, Mario Catena, Gino Giannaccini, Bernardo Dell'Osso, Irene Masala, Francesco Mungai, Liliana Dell'Osso

“…METHOD: Frontal cortex samples were harvested postmortem, during autopsy sessions, from 5 subjects. In the first assay, tissue homogenates were incubated with increasing concentrations of [³H]YM-09151-2, whereas L-745870, which has a high affinity for D4 and a low affinity for D2/D3 receptors, was used as the displacer. …”
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Projeto Hashtags: comunicação de risco para COVID-19 na comunidade imigrante brasileira em Boston by Camila Maciel Oliveira, Rebeca Simoes Brito, Mercedes Balcells, Doris Sommer, Carlos Alberto Mourão Junior, Carlos Eduardo Siqueira

“…The second stage was the collaboration of researchers in two training sessions for workers. The actions took place from March to June 2020. …”
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Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized, Controlled Trials on Preoperative Physical Exercise Interventions in Patients with Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer by Ilem D. Rosero, Robinson Ramírez-Vélez, Alejando Lucia, Nicolas Martínez-Velilla, Alejandro Santos-Lozano, Pedro L. Valenzuela, Idoia Morilla, Mikel Izquierdo

“…For the functional capacity and medical care parameters, preoperative combined aerobic, resistance, and inspiratory muscle training was shown to be effective if comprising one to four weeks, performing 1&#8722;3 sessions per week, with moderate intensity (50% for endurance capacity). …”
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Cost-effectiveness of specialised manual therapy orthopaedic care for musculoskeletal disorders: long-term follow-up and health economic model by Stina Lilje, Maurits van Tulder, Anders Wykman, Emmanuel Aboagye, Ulf Persson

“…Methods: The index group of a previously published pragmatic randomised controlled trial received a maximum of five treatment sessions of specialised manual therapy, while the control group received orthopaedic ‘care as usual’. …”
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A Community-Based, Mobile Electronic Medical Record System App for High-Quality, Integrated Antiretroviral Therapy in Lilongwe, Malawi: Design Process and Pilot Implementation by Caryl Feldacker, Raymond Mugwanya, Daniel Irongo, Daneck Kathumba, Jane Chiwoko, Emmanuel Kitsao, Kenn Sippell, Beatrice Wasunna, Kingsley Jonas, Bernadette Samala, Daniel Mwakanema, Femi Oni, Krishna Jafa, Hannock Tweya

“…ResultsCARES design took approximately 12 months and used an iterative process of highly participatory feedback sessions with provider, data manager, and M&E team inputs to ensure CARES optimization for the NCAP and LT settings. …”
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Enhanced external counterpulsation ameliorates endothelial dysfunction and elevates exercise tolerance in patients with coronary artery disease by Huongrui Yang, Lixue Song, Xiang Ning, Yanyan Ma, Aiying Xue, Hongbing Zhao, Yimeng Du, Qinghua Lu, Zhendong Liu, Juan Wang

“…Patients in the EECP group received 35 1-h daily sessions of EECP during 7 consecutive weeks while the control group received the same treatment course, but the cuff inflation pressure was 0–10 mmHg. …”
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Modulation of temporal and occipital cortex by acupuncture in non-menstrual MWoA patients: a rest BOLD fMRI study by Yu-Chan Yang, Xiang-Yu Wei, Ying-Ying Zhang, Chun-Yang Xu, Jian-Ming Cheng, Zhi-Gang Gong, Hui Chen, Yan-Wen Huang, Jie Yuan, Hui-Hui Xu, Hui Wang, Song-Hua Zhan, Wen-Li Tan

“…Methods Patients with non-menstrual MWoA (Group 1, n = 50) and healthy controls (Group 2, n = 50) were recruited. fMRI was performed in Group 1 at 2 time points: before acupuncture (time point 1, TP1); and after the end of all acupuncture sessions (time point 2, TP2), and performed in Group 2 as a one-time scan. …”
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IMPROVING STUDENTS’ FUNCTIONAL CAPACITY BY INTRODUCING AEROBICS IN THE WARM UP PART OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION LESSONS by Laura Edit CIULEA, Barna SZABÓ-CSIFÓ

“…Students of the experimental group underwent various aerobic programs during warm up sessions while the control group used traditional warm up methods. …”
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The impact of continuous quality improvement on coverage of antenatal HIV care tests in rural South Africa: Results of a stepped-wedge cluster-randomised controlled implementation... by H Manisha Yapa, Jan-Walter De Neve, Terusha Chetty, Carina Herbst, Frank A Post, Awachana Jiamsakul, Pascal Geldsetzer, Guy Harling, Wendy Dhlomo-Mphatswe, Mosa Moshabela, Philippa Matthews, Osondu Ogbuoji, Frank Tanser, Dickman Gareta, Kobus Herbst, Deenan Pillay, Sally Wyke, Till Bärnighausen

“…The intervention was delivered by trained CQI mentors and included standard CQI tools (process maps, fishbone diagrams, run charts, Plan-Do-Study-Act [PDSA] cycles, and action learning sessions). CQI mentors worked with health workers, including nurses and HIV lay counsellors. …”
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Whole body-electromyostimulation effects on serum biomarkers, physical performances and fatigue in Parkinson’s patients: A randomized controlled trial by Alessandra di Cagno, Andrea Buonsenso, Marco Centorbi, Luigi Manni, Alfonso Di Costanzo, Giusy Casazza, Attilio Parisi, Germano Guerra, Giuseppe Calcagno, Enzo Iuliano, Marzia Soligo, Giovanni Fiorilli, for The WB-EMS Parkinson’s Group, Francesco Lena, Nicola Modugno, Federico Quinzi

“…Participants of the two experimental groups underwent 24 controlled WB-EMS training sessions, with a duration of 20 min each, during 12-week intervention. …”
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