World Neurosurg
September 2020
Objective: The impact of various types of spinal surgeries on sexual health and postoperative sexual activity is a common question among both patients and health care professionals. Unfortunately, there is no clear answer to this question in the scientific literature. Our goal was to survey the current practices and recommendations of neurosurgeons to see if there was a clinical consensus.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Breast cancer is an important public health issue among American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) women. However, there are very few published studies describing the evaluation of breast health promotion programs among AI/AN women.
Purpose: To describe the formative evaluation of a multi-component intervention to promote mammography screening in an AI community in rural Oklahoma.
Patients are faced with many questions surrounding the after effects of the various surgical procedures and their ability to return to preoperative activities. While patients often question whether surgery would provide alleviation of pain, weakness, and instability, they often have additional questions about sexual activity during their convalescence that are not always addressed. Although the literature shows postsurgical improvement in sexual activity in association with improved low back pain, reports vaguely address the variability in sexual activity recommendations based on anatomic location and type of spinal surgery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Breast cancer is an important public health issue among American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) women in the US. This article describes the design and implementation of a culturally sensitive intervention to promote breast health among AI/AN women through a hybrid model that incorporates clinical and community-based approaches. This is one of the first studies using this model addressing breast cancer disparities among AI/AN populations in the US.
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