Functional decline in emergency department patients with dyspnea: a register-based cohort.

Background: Functional decline is associated with frequent hospital admissions and elevated risk of death. Presumably, patients acutely admitted to hospital with dyspnea have a high risk of functional decline.

Objective: The aim of this study was to describe patient characteristics, hospital trajectory and use of physiotherapy services by dyspneic patients in an emergency department.

Measurement properties of handheld dynamometry for assessment of shoulder muscle strength: A systematic review.

Like any assessment tool, handheld dynamometry (HHD) must be valid and reliable in order to be meaningful in clinical practice and research. To summarize the evidence of measurement properties of HHD for the assessment of shoulder muscle strength. Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), PubMed, EMBASE, and PEDro were searched up to February 2020.

Measurement Properties of Isokinetic Dynamometry for Assessment of Shoulder Muscle Strength: A Systematic Review.

Objective: To investigate the evidence of measurement properties of isokinetic dynamometry (ID) for assessment of shoulder muscle strength in healthy individuals and patients with nonneurologic shoulder pathology.

Data Sources: Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, PubMed, EMBASE, and Physiotherapy Evidence Database were searched up to February 2020 without restrictions. Reference lists and citations were hand-searched.

Validity of the Talk Test as a Method to Estimate Ventilatory Threshold and Guide Exercise Intensity in Cardiac Patients.

Purpose: To determine the relationship between the Talk Test (TT) and ventilatory threshold (VT) in patients with cardiac disease and to compare the TT with exercise intensity guidelines.

Methods: Twenty cardiac patients, aged 65 ± 8.5 yr, performed 2 exercise tests with identical ramp protocols on a cycle ergometer on the same day.

Measurement properties of performance-based instruments to assess mental function during activity and participation in traumatic brain injury: A systematic review.

Performance-based measures that focus primarily on the ability to engage in ADL are routinely used by occupational therapists to assess a client's cognitive abilities. To perform a systematic review to investigate measurement properties of performance-based instruments to assess mental function during activity and participation in individuals with traumatic brain injury. Pubmed, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsycINFO and OTseeker were searched.

Tele-rehabilitation and hospital-based cardiac rehabilitation are comparable in increasing patient activation and health literacy: A pilot study.

Background: Cardiac tele-rehabilitation is defined as using information and communication technology to support rehabilitation services. However, it requires a high level of patient activation and health literacy; this has not yet been explored.

Aims: The purpose of this study was to evaluate patient activation and health literacy in tele-rehabilitation compared to hospital-based cardiac rehabilitation.

Asymmetry and pelvic movements 6 months after total hip replacement Secondary analyses from a randomized controlled trial.

The aim was to investigate gait asymmetry and pelvic range of motion during walking and stair ascending after total hip replacement, and secondly to test whether these parameters were influenced by resistance training. A consecutive sample of 32 patients within a randomized controlled trial (control versus exercise group) was included. Speed, asymmetry and pelvic range of motion (walk and stair test) and leg power were measured preoperative, 10weeks and 6 months postoperative.

A comparison of high versus low dose of exercise training in exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation: a randomized controlled trial with 12-months follow-up.

Objective: To assess if a higher dose of exercise training in exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation could affect improvements in aerobic capacity and muscle strength.

Design: Assessor-blinded randomized controlled trial with 12-months follow-up.

Setting: Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.

Experience of cardiac tele-rehabilitation: analysis of patient narratives.

Introduction: Research suggests the need for further studies of patients' experiences of cardiac tele-rehabilitation to understand how they adapt to life with heart disease in a program with long-distance contact, remote supervision and monitoring of health behavior. Therefore, the aim of this study was to explore patients' experiences of tele-rehabilitation and the perceived gains of taking part in the program.

Materials And Methods: Seven patients were interviewed using a phenomenological-hermeneutic approach.

Measurement properties of instruments to assess mental function during activity and participation in individuals surviving traumatic brain injury: A systematic review protocol.

Most studies assessing mental function in individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) assess the impairments through pen and paper tests. However, weak correlation has been found between the results from pen and paper tests and the results from performance-based tests during activity and participation. To investigate measurement properties of performance-based instruments that are used to assess mental function during activity and participation in individuals with a TBI.

The effects of various respiratory physiotherapies after lung resection: a systematic review.

: The purpose of this review was to investigate the effect of respiratory physiotherapy after lung resection on mortality, postoperative pulmonary complications (PPC), length of stay, lung volumes, and adverse events. : Randomized or quasi-randomized controlled trials were searched in CENTRAL, PubMed, EMBASE, Cinahl, PEDro, and hand searching of related studies. Various respiratory physiotherapy interventions were compared to standard care, sham treatment, or no treatment.

Translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the Chelsea Critical Care Physical Assessment tool into Danish.

Purpose: The aim of the study was to validate the Chelsea Critical Care Physical Assessment Tool (CPAx) in Danish, including translation, cross-cultural adaptation and evaluation of clinemetric properties.

Method: International recommendations for translation and cross-cultural adaptation of outcome measures were followed. Physiotherapists with ICU experience investigated the clinemetric properties of the Danish CPAx version among 30 critically ill patients at three different ICUs.

Telemonitored exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation improves physical capacity and health-related quality of life.

Introduction: Cardiac rehabilitation improves physical capacity, health-related quality of life, and reduces morbidity and mortality among cardiac patients. Telemonitored exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation may innovate existing programmes and increase participation rates.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate if telemonitored exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation improves physical capacity, muscle endurance, muscle power, muscle strength and health-related quality of life in cardiac patients.

Dyspnoea and self-management strategies in patients admitted to the emergency department: A study of patients' experiences.

Aims And Objective: To explore patients' experiences of acute dyspnoea, physical functioning and perspectives on course of illness prior to admission to the emergency department.

Background: Many emergency admissions are considered unnecessary and avoidable. In this perspective, it seems relevant to gain insight into the patients' perspective on acute dyspnoea and the need for emergency admission.

Effect of long-term remote ischemic conditioning in patients with chronic ischemic heart failure.

Remote ischemic conditioning (RIC) protects against acute ischemia-reperfusion injury and may also have beneficial effects in patients with stable cardiovascular disease. We investigated the effect of long-term RIC treatment in patients with chronic ischaemic heart failure (CIHF). In a parallel group study, 22 patients with compensated CIHF and 21 matched control subjects without heart failure or ischemic heart disease were evaluated by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, cardiopulmonary exercise testing, skeletal muscle function testing, blood pressure measurement and blood sampling before and after 28 ± 4 days of once daily RIC treatment.

Correlation Between Exercise Capacity and Quality of Life in Patients With Cardiac Disease.

Purpose: Patients are referred to exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation (ECR) to increase exercise capacity and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and thereby reduce risk of morbidity and mortality. The purpose of this study was to examine the correlation between exercise capacity and HRQOL. Furthermore, this study examined whether improvements in HRQOL were directly related to improvements in exercise capacity.

The effects of respiratory physiotherapy after lung resection: Protocol for a systematic review.

Background: The main treatment of lung cancer (stage 1 and 2) is lung resection surgery. The risk of postoperative pulmonary complications is high and therefore standard postoperative care involves respiratory physiotherapy. The purpose of this systematic review is to create an overview of the evidence on respiratory physiotherapy after lung resection surgery on mortality rate (within 30 days) and postoperative pulmonary complications.

Three-dimensional kinematic and kinetic analysis of knee rotational stability in ACL-deficient patients during walking, running and pivoting.

Background: Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) deficiency leads to altered stability of the knee. The purpose of this study was to compare the dynamic, rotational stability of the knee, expressed as rotational stiffness, between anterior cruciate ligament-deficient (ACLD) knees, their contralateral intact knees (ACLI) and a knee healthy control group during walking, running and 90° pivoting. We hypothesized a larger tibial internal rotation, a smaller knee joint external moment and a lower rotational stiffness in the ACLD group compared to the ACLI and the control group.

Exercise-based pre-habilitation is feasible and effective in radical cystectomy pathways-secondary results from a randomized controlled trial.

Background: Physical exercises offer a variety of health benefits to cancer survivors during and post-treatment. However, exercise-based pre-habilitation is not well reported in major uro-oncology surgery. The aim of this study was to investigate the feasibility, the adherence, and the efficacy of a short-term physical pre-habilitation program to patients with invasive bladder cancer awaiting radical cystectomy (RC).

Description of load progression and pain response during progressive resistance training early after total hip arthroplasty: secondary analyses from a randomized controlled trial.

Objective: To describe a progressive resistance training intervention implemented shortly after total hip arthroplasty, including a detailed description of load progression, pain response and adverse events to the training.

Design: Secondary analyses of data from the intervention group in a randomized controlled trial.

Subjects: This study reports data from the intervention group ( n = 37).

Abnormal ventilatory response to exercise in young adults operated for ventricular septal defect in early childhood: A long-term follow-up.

Background: Ventricular septal defects (VSDs) are normally closed in early childhood, and postsurgical physical capacity is generally considered normal. Despite an increasing understanding of late cardiac morbidity among these patients, long-term pulmonary function remains to be investigated. Therefore, the aim of this prospective follow-up study was to describe ventilatory function during exercise in VSD-repaired adults operated in early life.

Efficacy of a multiprofessional rehabilitation programme in radical cystectomy pathways: a prospective randomized controlled trial.

Introduction: Radical cystectomy with lymph-node dissection is a complex procedure and often followed by high postoperative morbidity and physical impairments leading to prolonged length of stay (LOS). Fast-track principles are standard procedure in radical cystectomy. Additional preoperative and postoperative physical exercises and enhanced mobilization may reduce LOS and early complications.

Multidisciplinary rehabilitation can impact on health-related quality of life outcome in radical cystectomy: secondary reported outcome of a randomized controlled trial.

Purpose: Health related quality of life (HRQoL) is an important outcome in cancer care, although it is not well reported in surgical uro-oncology. Radical cystectomy (RC) with lymph-node dissection is the standard treatment of muscle-invasive bladder cancer and high-risk noninvasive bladder cancer. A wide range of impairments are reported postsurgery.

A study of the inter-rater reliability of a test battery for use in patients after total hip replacement.

Objective: To assess the within-day inter-rater reliability of a test battery of functional performance, muscle strength and leg extension power on total hip replacement patients.

Design: A test-retest design was used.

Setting: Orthopaedic department at a Regional Hospital in Denmark.

Reduced long-term exercise capacity in young adults operated for ventricular septal defect.

Background: Ventricular septal defects are normally closed in early childhood, and post-surgically the patients are considered as healthy and fit as their peers. However, data are inconsistent. We exercise-tested a cohort of ventricular septal defect-operated patients and a group of matched controls to evaluate long-term physical fitness.