Background: Segmentary exclusion syndrome is a motor behavioral disorder consisting in non-use or underuse of a limb or limb segment following local inflammation, most often of traumatic origin, primarily affecting the fingers and hand. It can be associated with somatosensory disorder, limitation of range of motion, and pain.
Purpose Of The Study: The objective of this article is to further describe segmentary exclusion syndrome, and to present practical rehabilitation techniques and strategies focused on prevention, assessment and treatment.
Objective: To determine whether the proportion of sport-related concussion (SRC) cases among student athletes that resulted in a relapse of their symptoms due to premature return to play (RTP) or premature return to learn (RTL) has changed compared with a prior (2006 to 2011) study.
Design: Retrospective cohort study of electronic medical record charts from a 5-year period (2011 to 2016) compared with previous data.
Setting: A sport and exercise medicine physician's office-based practice in Ontario.
This article investigates the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak on electoral participation. We study the French municipal elections that took place at the very beginning of the ongoing pandemic and held in over 9,000 municipalities on March 15, 2020. In addition to the simple note that turnout rates decreased to a historically low level, we establish a robust relationship between the depressed turnout rate and the disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLyme disease is a multisystemic infection that can present as localized disease, early disseminated, or late disease. During the early disseminated phase of Lyme disease, the hematogenous spread can result in extracutaneous manifestations, including cardiac, neurological, and joint. Lyme carditis is an uncommon manifestation occurring in patients with untreated Lyme disease.
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