The Effectiveness of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy as a Treatment for Postconcussion Symptoms.

Unlabelled: Clinical Scenario: Concussions are a prevalent topic in medicine. Concussion symptoms include headaches, dizziness, nausea, neuropsychiatric symptoms, and cognitive impairments, the persistence of which is referred to as postconcussion syndrome. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) has been proposed and evaluated as an additional treatment of these symptoms.

CLINICAL APPLICATIONS OF CRYOTHERAPY AMONG SPORTS PHYSICAL THERAPISTS.

Background: Therapeutic modalities (TM) are used by sports physical therapists (SPT) but how they are used is unknown.

Purpose: To identify the current clinical use patterns for cryotherapy among SPT.

Study Design: Cross-sectional survey.

Are room temperature and thermal neutral synonymous terms? An investigation of common therapeutic modality control variables.

Context: Therapeutic modality control variables are thought to be thermal neutral, a term sometimes used interchangeably with room temperature. We question this common assumption.

Objective: To determine thermal neutrality of common therapeutic modality control variables.

The uncertainty (validity and reliability) of three electrothermometers in therapeutic modality research.

Context: Data from electrothermometers are used to determine therapeutic modality usage, but the value of experimental results is only as good as the data collected.

Objective: To determine the reliability and validity of 3 electrothermometers from 2 manufacturers.

Design: A 3 x 4 x 17 factorial with repeated measures on 2 factors.