Effect of selective manual therapy techniques in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A randomized control trial.

Objective: To investigate the effect of selective manual therapy (MT) techniques on chest expansion, pulmonary function (forced vital capacity [FVC], forced expiratory volume in 1 s [FEV1], and FEV1/FVC ratio), craniovertebral angle (CVA), kyphosis angle, functional capacity, and dyspnea in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Methods: A parallel double-blinded randomized controlled trial involved 52 male subjects with a mean age of 56.23 ± 3.

Reach of Messages in a Dental Twitter Network: Cohort Study Examining User Popularity, Communication Pattern, and Network Structure.

Background: Increasing the reach of messages disseminated through Twitter promotes the success of Twitter-based health education campaigns.

Objective: This study aimed to identify factors associated with reach in a dental Twitter network (1) initially and (2) sustainably at individual and network levels.

Methods: We used instructors' and students' Twitter usernames from a Saudi dental school in 2016-2017 and applied Gephi (a social network analysis tool) and social media analytics to calculate user and network metrics.