Publications by authors named "C Gregory Smith"

Article Synopsis
  • - Plantar heel pain affects around 10% of people, primarily caused by plantar fasciitis, which sometimes comes with plantar calcaneal spurs whose impact on surgery is unclear.
  • - A study of 136 plantar fascia surgeries found that excising these spurs led to longer recovery times, including delayed symptom resolution and time before patients could bear weight in shoes.
  • - Right-sided surgeries had worse outcomes in terms of symptom resolution and higher retreatment rates, but there were no significant differences in complication rates between those who had the spur excised and those who did not.
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Background: Cognitive therapy for PTSD (CT-PTSD) is an efficacious treatment for children and adolescents with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following single incident trauma, but there is a lack of evidence relating to this approach for youth with PTSD following exposure to multiple traumatic experiences.

Aims: To assess the safety, acceptability and feasibility of CT-PTSD for youth following multiple trauma, and obtain a preliminary estimate of its pre-post effect size.

Method: Nine children and adolescents (aged 8-17 years) with multiple-trauma PTSD were recruited to a case series of CT-PTSD.

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Introduction: Intrapleural injections of cholera toxin B conjugated to saporin (CTB-SAP) result in selective respiratory (, phrenic) motor neuron death and mimics aspects of motor neuron disease [(, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)], such as breathing deficits. This rodent model allows us to study the impact motor neuron death has on the output of surviving phrenic motor neurons as well as the compensatory mechanisms that are recruited. Microglial density in the phrenic motor nucleus as well as cervical gene expression of markers associated with inflammation (.

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