Performance Quality Assessment in Ballet, Modern and Contemporary Dance: A Two-Step Systematic Review.

Measurement of performance quality in dance is important but challenging and few dance performance quality measures exist. This study aims to (1) identify and (2) assess the quality of dance performance outcome measures for ballet, modern and contemporary dance. A 2-step systematic review with two separate literature searches was conducted.

The association between hip/groin pain and hip strength in football players: An exploratory analysis of the FORCe cohort.

Objectives: Explore associations between peak hip strength in football players with hip/groin pain and healthy controls.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Methods: Male and female sub-elite football players (soccer and Australian football) with hip/groin pain >6-month duration and players without hip/groin pain were recruited across Melbourne and Brisbane, Australia.

Use of Decision-Analytic Modelling to Assess the Cost-Effectiveness of Diagnostic Imaging of the Spine, Shoulder, and Knee: A Scoping Review.

Background: Limited evidence is available on the cost-effectiveness of diagnostic imaging for back, neck, knee, and shoulder complaints. Decision analytic modelling may be an appropriate method to synthesise evidence from multiple sources, and overcomes issues with trial-based economic evaluations.

Objective: The aim was to describe the reporting of methods and objectives utilised in existing decision analytic modelling studies that assess the cost-effectiveness of diagnostic imaging for back, neck, knee, and shoulder complaints.

Treatment preferences and use of diagnostic imaging in midportion Achilles tendinopathy by Australian allied health professionals.

Objectives: The objectives of this study were to examine the treatment preferences and use of diagnostic imaging by Australian allied health professionals in the management of midportion Achilles tendinopathy.

Design: Cross-sectional survey of Australian allied health professionals.

Methods: An online survey was distributed to registered Australian physiotherapists, podiatrists, myotherapists, exercise physiologists, osteopaths, and chiropractors between September 2018 and October 2019.

Nearly 40% of adolescent athletes report anterior knee pain regardless of maturation status, age, sex or sport played.

Objective: To report point prevalence of anterior knee pain (AKP) in adolescent athletes by (1) maturation status, (2) chronological age, (3) sex, and (4) primary sport.

Design: Cross-sectional.

Methods: Male and female participants aged 11-15 years were recruited from specialised sports programs for basketball, volleyball, Australian Rules Football and tennis.

Does isometric exercise result in exercise induced hypoalgesia in people with local musculoskeletal pain? A systematic review.

Objective: The aim of this review was to investigate if exercise induced hypoalgesia (EIH) occurs following isometric muscle contraction in people with local musculoskeletal symptoms.

Design: Systematic review.

Data Sources: MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL & SportDiscus electronic databases were searched (inception to April 2020).

Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy Immediately Affects Achilles Tendon Structure and Widespread Pressure Pain Thresholds in Healthy People: A Repeated-Measures Observational Study.

Objective: Extracorporeal shockwave therapy is a common clinical treatment for tendinopathy, yet negative effects on tendon structure have been shown in animal studies. This study aimed to investigate the effect of extracorporeal shockwave therapy in healthy participants (i.e.

Biological efficacy of a 600 mg loading dose of clopidogrel in ST-elevation myocardial infarction.

Optimal platelet reactivity (PR) inhibition is critical to prevent thrombotic events in primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). We aimed to determine the relationship between high on-treatment platelet reactivity (HTPR) and ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) following a 600 mg loading dose (LD) of clopidogrel. We performed a prospective monocentre study enrolling patients on clopidogrel undergoing PCI.

Relation of body mass index to high on-treatment platelet reactivity and of failed clopidogrel dose adjustment according to platelet reactivity monitoring in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention.

High on-treatment platelet reactivity (HTPR) after a clopidogrel loading dose predicts the risk of thrombotic events after percutaneous coronary intervention. We have demonstrated that HTPR could be overcome in most cases using dose adjustment according to PR monitoring resulting in an improved clinical outcome. However, this strategy failed in nearly 10% of patients with HTPR.

Impact of P2Y12-ADP receptor polymorphism on the efficacy of clopidogrel dose-adjustment according to platelet reactivity monitoring in coronary artery disease patients.

Introduction: High on-treatment platelet reactivity (HTPR) after clopidogrel loading dose (LD) is associated with a high risk of thrombotic events after percutaneous coronary intervention(PCI). We have demonstrated that HTPR could be overcome in the majority of cases using LD adjustment resulting in an improved clinical outcome. However this strategy failed in nearly 10% of patients with HTPR.

Immunity to poliovirus among children and the elderly in north-east Italy.

Introduction: Italy and Europe were declared polio-free in June 2002, but increasing migration, even from undeveloped countries where polio still exists, may lead to a come-back of circulating poliovirus (PV) and infection in previously polio-free areas. It is consequently advisable to continue to monitor the immunity of the population in polio-free areas. The aim of this study was to assess the current prevalence of neutralizing antibodies in recently-immunized children and in elderly people who were never vaccinated.

Mesial temporal lobe Cho to Cr(PCr) ratio asymmetry in chronic schizophrenics.

Proton magnetic resonance spectra (MRS) were acquired from 1.5 x 1.5 x 1.

Comparison of three different influenza vaccines in institutionalised elderly.

The reactogenicity and the humoral immune response to three influenza vaccines were evaluated in a randomised, double-blind trial at nursing homes in north-east Italy in winter 1998-1999. Of the 285 subjects, who completed the follow-up, 93 were administered virosomal vaccine, 99 received MF59-adjuvanted vaccine and 93 had split vaccine. Ten subjects (0.

A quantitative magnetic resonance imaging study of caudate and lenticular nucleus gray matter volume in primary unipolar major depression: relationship to treatment response and clinical severity.

The authors investigated whether there were differences in caudate and lenticular nucleus volumes in depressed patients relative to comparison subjects, and whether differences in basal ganglia volume were associated with treatment response to fluoxetine. Brain magnetic resonance images were obtained from 38 unipolar depressed patients and 20 matched comparison subjects. Patients were divided into groups of 'responders' and 'non-responders' based on change in the 17-item Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS) score after a 10-week open trial of fluoxetine, 20 mg/day.

Influenza vaccines: antibody responses to split virus and MF59-adjuvanted subunit virus in an adult population.

The humoral immune response generated by two commercial influenza vaccines was evaluated in a randomised, double-blind trial performed in the Public Department of Dolo Health District (North-east Italy) during the winter season 1997-1998. Ninety-eight subjects were immunised with a split virus vaccine and ninety-six with a MF59-adjuvanted subunit virus vaccine (SU/MF59). The pre- and postvaccination (approximately 30 days) antibody titres were determined by hemagglutination inhibition test (HI).

A quantitative magnetic resonance imaging study of cerebral and cerebellar gray matter volume in primary unipolar major depression: relationship to treatment response and clinical severity.

The authors investigated whether there were differences in cerebral and cerebellar gray and white matter volumes in depressed patients compared to controls, and whether this was associated with treatment response to fluoxetine. Brain magnetic resonance images were obtained from 38 unipolar depressed patients and 20 age, gender, and educationally matched comparison subjects. Patients were divided into groups of "responders" and "nonresponders" based on change in 17-item Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS) after an 8-week standardized trial of fluoxetine, 20 mg/day.

Basal ganglia choline levels in depression and response to fluoxetine treatment: an in vivo proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy study.

We have investigated proton magnetic resonance spectra of the basal ganglia in 41 medication-free outpatients with major depression, prior to starting an 8-week standardized trial of open-label fluoxetine, and 22 matched comparison subjects. Upon completing the trial, depressed subjects were classified as treatment responders (n = 18) or nonresponders (n = 23), based on changes in the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale. Depressed subjects had a lower area ratio of the choline resonance to the creatine resonance (Cho/Cr) than comparison subjects.

Poliovirus neutralizing antibody persistence after vaccination with the Sabin vaccine: a follow-up study.

In 1976, a cohort survey on the persistence of neutralizing antibodies in children regularly immunized 1 to 4 years earlier with the Sabin attenuated vaccine (OPV) was undertaken in the Venice mainland. Subsequent serological evaluations in the same cohort were carried out in 1983 and 1993. A macroneutralization test using a 1:4 initial serum dilution was utilized in the 1976 and 1983 survey years.

Persistence of poliovirus-neutralizing antibodies 2-16 years after immunization with live attenuated vaccine. A seroepidemiologic survey in the mainland of Venice.

A seroepidemiological survey was conducted on subjects who had received a full vaccination course with live attenuated poliovirus 2-16 years before. For strains 1 and 2 prevalence of seropositives and median values dropped gradually during the first 10 years; strain 3 showed a much earlier decline. Environmental displacement of wild poliovirus by the attenuated, less immunogenic strain might eventually induce a 'gap', should complacency hamper needed vaccination efforts.