Publications by authors named "G G Billy"
Context: Psychological readiness is a significant factor in determining successful return to sport (RTS) and physical activities after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction. Knowing the influence of kinesiophobia on physical tests that are used to guide RTS, such as the single-leg hop for distance (SLHD), would contribute to advancing clinical practice.
Objective: To investigate the association between kinesiophobia and SLHD performance in patients after ACL reconstruction.
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- Animals respond to stress using intrinsic and extrinsic factors, and this study focused on wild dice snakes to analyze stress response variations across sexes, morphotypes, reproductive status, and feeding behavior.
- After capture, both glucose (GLUC) and corticosterone (CORT) levels rose sharply, with GLUC peaking sooner than CORT, indicating a significant stress response that remained high over time.
- Surprisingly, no differences were found across sex or morphotype, but snakes exhibiting death-feigning behavior had lower CORT levels, suggesting that low stress hormones may help facilitate this behavior, while those with partially digested food showed higher GLUC levels.
Predictive genetic testing (PGT) is offered to asymptomatic relatives at risk of hereditary heart disease, but the impact of result disclosure has been little studied. We evaluated the psychosocial impacts of PGT in hereditary heart disease, using self-report questionnaires (including the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory) in 517 adults, administered three times to the prospective cohort (PCo: = 264) and once to the retrospective cohort (RCo: = 253). The main motivations for undergoing PGT were "to remove doubt" and "for their children".
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe prerogative of animal welfare science includes wild species and ecological studies. Yet, guidance enshrined in legislation is narrowly derived from studies involving laboratory rodents; legitimacy for non-mammalian free-ranging species is thus debatable. The European directive 2010/63/EU illustrates this problem.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMultifidus function is important for active stabilization of the spine, but it can be compromised in patients with chronic low back pain and other spine pathologies. Force production and strength of back muscles are often evaluated using isometric or isokinetic tests, which lack the ability to quantify multifidi contribution independent of the erector spinae and adjacent hip musculature. The objective of this study is to evaluate localized force production capability in multifidus muscle using ultrasound shear wave elastography (SWE) in healthy individuals.
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