Listening to Our Students: What are the Most Important Factors When Choosing a Physical Therapy Program.

Introduction: Technology, distance learning, and social media have changed the landscape of physical therapy education. Modifications are needed to meet the needs of applicants and align with the current healthcare environment.

Purpose: To identify the most important factors students consider when selecting a physical therapist education program.

Acute pericardial postischemic inflammatory responses: Characterization using a preclinical porcine model.

Background: Pericardial fluid (PF) contains cells, proteins, and inflammatory mediators, such as cytokines, chemokines, growth factors, and matrix metalloproteinases. To date, we lack an adequate understanding of the inflammatory response that acute injury elicits in the pericardial space.

Objective: To characterize the inflammatory profile in the pericardial space acutely after ischemia/reperfusion.

The relationship between academic success and sleep, stress and quality of life during the first year of physical therapy school.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between academic success and changes in predictor variables of aerobic fitness, sleep, stress and quality of life (QOL) in students enrolled in the first year of a physical therapist education program. This prospective longitudinal cohort study utilized 37 first-year Doctor of Physical Therapy students. We investigated the association between grade point average (GPA) and the various predictor variables.

Health-Related Quality of Life in Children With Chronic Illness Compared to Parents: A Systematic Review.

Purpose: The purpose of this systematic review is to identify quality-of-life issues that affect participation in age-appropriate activities in chronically ill children, as reported by the children and their families.

Summary Of Key Points: Social and emotional functioning scores on the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL) 4.0 were found to have the greatest frequency of poor agreement between parents and children in 4 of the 6 studies included in this review, suggesting parents and children have wide variation in their assessment in these areas of psychosocial function.

Treatment of Pediatric Overweight and Obesity: Assessing the Options.

Background: Obesity in the United States has been identified as one of the most prevalent health epidemics affecting both adults and children, and it has become the focus of a variety of primary, secondary, and tertiary healthcare interventions.

Objectives: To summarize and assess the efficacy of current practices in the management and treatment of pediatric overweight and obesity.

Methods: An extensive review of the literature was performed.

Epidemiology of injuries in the elite level female high school lacrosse player.

Female lacrosse has grown 219% in the last decade. This descriptive study explored the epidemiology of elite female high school lacrosse injuries and compared them with those in the collegiate player. Five hundred surveys were completed at tournaments in the northeast United States.

Inhaled NO accelerates restoration of liver function in adults following orthotopic liver transplantation.

Ischemia/reperfusion (IR) injury in transplanted livers contributes to organ dysfunction and failure and is characterized in part by loss of NO bioavailability. Inhalation of NO is nontoxic and at high concentrations (80 ppm) inhibits IR injury in extrapulmonary tissues. In this prospective, blinded, placebo-controlled study, we evaluated the hypothesis that administration of inhaled NO (iNO; 80 ppm) to patients undergoing orthotopic liver transplantation inhibits hepatic IR injury, resulting in improved liver function.

Weighing in on the issues of type 2 diabetes in children: a review.

Purpose: The purpose of this review is to present the clinical issues, including risk, etiology, screening and identification, complications, management, and prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in children and to discuss the role of the pediatric physical therapist in effectively managing children with T2DM.

Summary Of Key Points: In studies done worldwide, T2DM is being diagnosed in children at rates much greater than that of type 1 diabetes. Sedentary lifestyle and the high prevalence of obesity are the primary problems, setting the stage for a lifetime of health complications for many of today's youth.

Surveillance for avian influenza in the United States.

In the United States, some 1.7 million agar gel immuno diffusion (AGID) tests for avian influenza (AI) are conducted yearly by various poultry groups, governmental sectors, and private industry. In addition to the AGID test, additional testing includes virus isolations, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays, real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reactions, and hemagglutination inhibition (HI) tests.

Impact of avian influenza on U.S. poultry trade relations-2002: H5 or H7 low pathogenic avian influenza.

Avian influenza (AI) viruses are Type A influenza viruses of the Orthomyxoviridae family. There are 15 subtypes of the virus widespread in migratory waterfowl throughout the world. It has become increasingly evident that some low pathogenic avian influenza (LPAI) H5 or H7 viruses have the capacity to mutate into the more virulent strains that cause extensive economic losses and high mortality.

Characterization of T-cell lymphomas associated with an outbreak of reticuloendotheliosis in turkeys.

Increased mortality and decreased egg production associated with disseminated lymphoma were observed in a turkey breeding flock for more than 20 weeks. A few unrelated meat turkey flocks, from the same integrator, experienced increased condemnation due to neoplasia in a few organs. Lymphoma was characterized by a uniform population of large lymphocytes with large vesicular nuclei containing one or two nucleoli and with little, faintly staining, basophilic cytoplasm.

Avulsion of the common retinaculum in meat turkeys.

An increase in leg condemnations was experienced in several commercial meat flocks of male and female turkeys. Affected legs had hematomas around and above the tibiotarsus-tarsometatarsus (hock) joint. Avulsion of the common retinaculum from the external condyle was observed when the skin and muscular fascia were removed.